USC, PHIL CHANNINGKatrina Edwards, the University of Southern California (USC) geomicrobiologist whose research centered on identifying microbes living under the ocean, died this week (October 26) after a long illness. She was 46.
“Katrina was a tenacious and enthusiastic practitioner of interdisciplinary science, with a clear vision of fundamental questions in geobiology,” wrote her colleagues at the USC-based Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI), of which Edwards was the founding principal investigator. “She also had an innate ability to build and lead strong teams, to nurture a community of young researchers and educators, and to secure the resources necessary to accomplish her important goals.”
Born in 1968 in Columbus, Ohio, Edwards completed her undergraduate studies at Ohio State University before earning a PhD in geomicrobiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. She then accepted a position at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts before joining the faculty at USC in 2006. In 2010, Edwards was ...
