Opportunities in Sustainability: A Promising Career Path

Dr. Karamcheti's presentation will focus on courses and the career opportunities that exist for students in Sustainability. The session emphasizes the current trends in college degrees, available employment opportunities and the promising future of sustainability. 
Dr. Kendall Valentine is an ecogeomorphologist who studies how bio-physical interactions and global change affect coastal landscape evolution. Her work uses multiple approaches including numerical modeling and field experiments to understand the changing coast, with a particular focus on marshes and mudflats. Dr. Valentine loves getting muddy at field sites along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and enjoys an occasional run-in with dolphins, gators, and racoons. Currently, Dr. Valentine is a postdoctoral researcher at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Prior to her work at VIMS, she earned a PhD in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences from Louisiana State University and a Masters in Geology and Geophysics from Boston College.