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Episode #30: Katrin Steinthorsdottir talks about fixing carbon, geology, and climate change

Episode #30: Katrin Steinthorsdottir talks about fixing carbon, geology, and climate change

FromWomen In Environmental Science & Engineering


Episode #30: Katrin Steinthorsdottir talks about fixing carbon, geology, and climate change

FromWomen In Environmental Science & Engineering

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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Dec 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Katrin Steinthorsdottir (she/her) is a geologist who is doing her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC) alongside working for Carbfix. Her work focuses on CO2 storage via mineralization in subsurface ultramafic rocks. She completed her MSc also at UBC on serpentinization and implications for carbon mineralization. Katrin grew up in Iceland, Malta, and the United States, and before moving to Canada, worked on volcano monitoring in Mexico. She acquired her BSc from the University of Iceland, investigating physical volcanology with an exchange year at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Released:
Dec 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (39)

This podcast is to inspire other people and to educate them about the work researchers in environmental engineering/science are doing: the issues they face in the industry, the solutions they make, the roadblocks they push through, and what they learning to teach the society to keep the environment clean!