Karen Knee Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Science
- Degrees
- Sc.B. with honors in Environmental Science, Brown University, 2002
PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 2010
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- Battery Kemble Park
- Bio
- I grew up in Charleston, SC, and the happy days I spent at the beach gave me a lifelong love of the water. I left home to pursue a degree in Environmental Science at Brown University, and after graduation I worked as a cook, lab tech, freelance journalist and shipboard environmental educator on a historic schooner in New Jersey. I attended grad school at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA (also close to some amazing beaches), traveled to Ecuador on a Fulbright grant to research land use and water quality in the cloud forest, spent a year and a half studying nutrient pollution to the Chesapeake Bay watershed at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and now here I am. In addition to teaching and conducting research in environmental science, I enjoy hiking, biking, swimming, cooking, traveling, reading novels, hanging out with my dog Moby, and visiting the amazing array of free museums that this city has to offer.
- See Also
- Knee Ecohydrology Lab
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.