Gabrielle Black, PhD

(Term 2021 - present)
(Presidential Term: 2021 - 2023)
US Geological Survey 

Gabby is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at University of California Davis. She is currently involved in a variety of environmental chemistry research projects utilizing endocrine activity and other biological testing to drive non-targeted chemical analysis. Gabby is currently investigating chemicals in drinking water and potential correlations to historic breast cancer occurrence rates in California, in addition to evaluating pyrethroid pesticides and per- and poly-fluorinated compounds in different environmental media. Prior to her postdoc, Gabby earned her BS in Molecular Biology at Dominican University of California and spent two years as a Project Manager for a non-profit and an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory investigating the microbial community influence of aerobic human waste composting in Haiti. Gabby received her PhD with Dr. Thomas Young in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry at University of California Davis in 2019.
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Gabby is passionate about collaborative projects that span scientific disciplines to comprehensively study environmental issues and looks forward to helping facilitate these relationships amongst researchers and stakeholders within NorCal SETAC. Gabby hopes to play an active role in organizing successful meetings like those NorCal SETAC have hosted in the past, aid in recruiting new members, and help support and encourage student participation.