ES Ph.D. Alumna, Dr. Katlin Bowman

Dr. Katlin Bowman, who earned her doctorate in Environmental Sciences under the direction of Prof. Chad Hammerschmidt at Wright State, discusses in an EarthZine article her continued work in the area of methylmercury in the environment. Bowman is a postdoctoral researcher in oceanography at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and sailed with nine research expeditions, including the ongoing GEOTRACES study, to measure mercury concentrations in large sections of the ocean and deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

"One of my research goals has been to quantify how much mercury in the ocean