Linda C. Kah is Professor of Carbonate Sedimentology and Geochemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received concurrent B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research integrates sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and paleobiology to understand the evolution of the Earth's biosphere. Current projects include reconstructing the ocean-atmospheric oxygenation and the redox structure of Mesoproterozoic shallow marine systems, exploring the effects of changing ocean circulation on the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), and characterizing microbe-mineral interactions in the mineralization of Holocene lacustrine microbialites. In addition to Earth-based research projects, she also investigates potential habitable environments as co-investigator on the Mars Science Laboratory Mission.
