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Katrina Cantu

Katrina Cantu

Teaching Professor, Environmental and Ocean Sciences

  • MS, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California San Diego, Earth Sciences
  • BS, University of California San Diego, Earth Sciences

Katrina Cantú is a teaching professor in the Department of Environmental and Ocean Sciences. Her professional focus has been using sedimentology to understand changes in coastal environments over the last 10 thousand years or so. When she isn't working she enjoys gardening, hiking and camping, and spending time with her family and pets. 

Areas of Expertise

Sedimentology, Wetlands, Anthropogenic Impacts, Micropaleontology, Climate Change

Professional Experience

Katrina studied Earth Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she received her BS and MS. During her time there she used sediment cores to reconstruct past environments, climate, and anthropogenic impacts on coastal environments during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Her research took her to Israel, Greece, and Puerto Rico to conduct field work and collaborate with local researchers. While studying at Scripps, Katrina taught a variety of courses in the Earth Sciences as well as Environmental Archaeology. 

Scholarly Work

Shtienberg, G. and K. Cantu (2023). The Inland Late Bronze–Iron Age Anchorage of Dor: Ancient Reality or Fantasy? “And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12: 12) Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, Springer International Publishing Cham: 1493-1505.
 
Levy, T., et al. (2023). "Digital underwater technologies in the Methoni bay cultural heritage project, Greece: Interdisciplinary approaches and sustainability." Sci. Cult 9: 51-88. 
 
Shtienberg, G., et al. (2022). "Holocene sea-level rise and coastal aquifer interactions: Triggering mechanisms for environmental change and impacts on human settlement patterns at Dor, Israel." Quaternary Science Reviews 294: 107740. 
 
Rivera-Collazo, I., et al. (2021). "The power of archaeology to address interpretation biases in modern geomorphology." Geomorphology 389: 107843. 
 
Shtienberg, G., et al. (2020). "A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean: Prehistoric settlement vulnerability along the Carmel coast, Israel." PLoS ONE 15(12): e0243619. 
 
Cantu, K. M. (2020). Anthropogenic Erosion from Hellenistic to Recent Times in the Northern Gulf of Corinth, Greece, UC San Diego.
 
 

Office Hours

Section 04
1/26 - 5/20 T 8:30 am - 10:00 amSCST 250
1/26 - 5/20 W 11:00 am - 12:00 pmSCST 250
1/26 - 5/20 TH 9:30 am - 10:30 amSCST 250
TH 12:30 pm - 2:00 pmSCST 250
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