Samantha is a current Masters of Science student at the Harvard School of Public Health, focusing on Environmental Health and Environmental Exposure Assessment. Samantha is specifically interested in the cycling, fate and transport of atmospheric and aquatic pollutants and how these cycles will be disrupted along with climate change. She also works as a student intern at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency working on industrial NPDES permitting regulations and assisting with ecological and human health risk assessments related to water toxicants. She’s originally from coastal North Carolina and received my B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. After college, she travelled around the U.S. working as a science writer in Washington DC and as a researcher associated with the National Park Service at Lake Mead National Recreation Area outside of Las Vegas, NV. In her free time she loves to read, be outside and enjoy a variety of podcasts.
The Great Lakes ecosystem is a vital network of freshwater bodies for those in and outside of the Midwest, which supports 21% of the world’s freshwater supply and home to over 3,500 unique flora and fauna. Bordered by both Lake...
The newly created Wisconsin Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy and associated Climate Change Task Force are working to establish climate policy and promote state level change. Since COVID-19 spread across the country, public comments and listening sessions have gone...