Dr. Cara Santelli
Cara Santelli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Minnesota, after spending many years as a Research Geologist and Curator in the Department of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Her work examines the impact of microbial activity on a wide variety of geological processes such as biomineralization and weathering, metal redox transformations, fungal biomineralization processes, environmental geochemistry, and remediation of sites impacted by acid mine drainage pollution.