Marilyn Fogel

Marilyn L. Fogel, Senior Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science Geophysical Laboratory, is Chris' wife and co-speaker for the conference. She is a biogeochemist or geobiologist; Marilyn studies the modern environment to learn about the past. She has work with mangrove ecosystems in the tropics, Belize, studying how they respond to different nutrient conditions; she and her colleagues also work in the lab. Some of her work involves growing microbes in extreme conditions, revealing how life is not just on the surface but extends deep into the oceans and into rocks. She notes that stable isotopes have been around for 8-9 billion years. “You think you’re old—those isotopes are older; they ended up on the planet, and they ended up in you.”