Student Researchers

Did You Know?

Nutrient runoff from the upper agricultural regions of the Mississippi River watershed creates a hypoxic “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. The 2017 hypoxic dead zone was the largest measured since 1985, at 8,776 sq mi.

Catherine A. Polityka

Research Assistant

Status:

Former

Education

M.S.E. Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003
B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 1998

Publications (1)

Student Researchers

Catherine A. Polityka

Research Assistant

The Environmental Impact of Cruise Ships