Presenter

Dr. Robyn Conmy is a research scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Cincinnati Ohio, USA, and leads the Oil Research Area for the Office of Research and Development, Homeland Security Research Program. Robyn also holds a visiting scientist position at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She serves as the EPA member on the congressionally-mandated Interagency Coordinating Committee for Oil Pollution Research (ICCOPR) for federal agencies. Dr. Conmy serves as a technical expert during federal oil spill response efforts and a deposition witness for federal trials. She has published 56 papers in refereed journals, 2 book chapters, and numerous federal reports. Her research is cited in decision-rules of the US Code of Federal Regulations. With more than 35 weeks spent at sea, her research interests include in situ detection of optical and biogeochemical properties, organic carbon cycling and tracing in marine, riverine and groundwater environments, oil dispersion and fingerprinting, advancing spill response detection tools, photo- & bio-degradation of oil in aquatic environments, and natural resource damage assessment. Robyn serves on the advisory boards of the Coastal Response Research Center and the Canadian Multi-Partner Oil Spill Research Initiative. She also serves on numerous technical working groups, National Response Team S&T committee, and graduate student committees. Robyn received her Ph.D. in Marine Chemistry from the University of South Florida, College of Marine Science in 2008, where she was a NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow and a USGS Cooperative Agreement Fellow.