After receiving an uproar of positive responses from her undergraduate oceanography students, marinescienceanimations.com was founded as a publicly accessible depository aimed at undergraduate and graduate levels for educational oceanography outreach. Katie O'Malley (she/her) graduated with a Master's of Science at UC Santa Barbara after studying bio-geo-chemical processes along the seafloor of the Santa Barbara Basin. As an undergraduate, she studied Chemistry, Earth Science, and Dance at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Today, she works as a hydrogeologist for an environmental consultant firm. Katie is a self-taught graphic artist.