ESP Biography



KATHERINE SQUIRES, MIT-WHOI PhD Candidate in Chemical Oceanography




Major: EAPS (Course 12)

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2027

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I am a 4th year PhD candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography. My research is focussed on using marine sediment to explore hydrothermal processes and carbon cycling in the Pacific Ocean -- both today and millions of years ago!



Past Classes

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S16492: Unlocking the Ocean's Secrets (With Mud!) in Spark 2026 (Mar. 14 - 15, 2026)
Did you know that the bottom of the ocean floor is almost completely covered by mud? And did you know that we can use that mud to time-travel? In this class, you will don your paleoclimatologist hat and learn all about the muds of the ocean floor, the critters that live there, and how we use the secrets of the mud to reconstruct the Earth’s past. Then, you’ll examine real sediment from the deep Atlantic Ocean and be the first to see what secrets it holds within it!