Katie graduated with a BA in Environmental Sciences in 2013, and is currently working as a Metals Prep Technician for TestAmerica Laboratories, Portland branch. She prepares soil, surface water, groundwater, and waste samples for dissolved and total recoverable metals analysis. This preparation includes filtering, preserving, spiking, acidifying, and digesting aliquots of samples according to EPA methods. Katie is happy to be back in a lab environment after having previously conducted research in the Forbes lab at the University of Iowa.