Karen Merritt

· Assistant Professor

Bio

Karen is an Environmental Geologist and Public Health Engineer and has worked on projects characterizing legacy contamination in estuarine and coastal environments in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the E.U. Her work includes chemical fate and transport analysis, design and implementation of field sampling programs, evaluation of community impacts and industrial histories, particularly with respect to mercury cell chlor-alkali production, and biogeochemistry, contaminant bioavailability and sediment transport in salt marshes. As a Public Health Engineer, her work examines spatialized health disparities in port cities that are created and perpetuated by infrastructural frameworks and environmental exposures. Karen joined the MMA faculty in 2023. She teaches in the Arts & Science Department and is affiliated faculty in the Ocean Studies program.

PhD., Environmental Engineering, University of Maine
MPH, Global and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A., Geology, Carleton College