Katrina Cantu is a Ph.D. student at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research focus is how coastal environments evolve over time due to changing sea levels, climate, and human activity. Most of her work involves the collection of sediment cores and sediment analysis including identification of micro and macro fossils, geochronology, geochemistry, and stratigraphy. Katrina has conducted field work in Israel and Puerto Rico where she collected sediment cores and assisted in both terrestrial and underwater excavations. She has a BS and MS in Earth Sciences, both completed at Scripps Institution of Oceanography/ UC San Diego.