Carol Kim

Carol Kim is a Knauss Policy Fellow with NOAA Ocean Exploration. She received her doctorate in the Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and her bachelor's degree in environmental science from Barnard College, Columbia University. Her dissertation explored microbial community structure, interactions, and metabolic potentials to better understand biogeochemical cycling in coastal ecosystems. Carol is a microbial ecologist with expertise in sediment biogeochemistry, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. Her research has focused on microbial communities in restored salt marshes, microbial community interactions with cable bacteria, and microbial carbon sources driving arsenic release in Bangladesh aquifers.