Caroline Webb

Caroline Webb is a senior majoring in Environmental Science with a Human Health Concentration and minoring in both Molecular and Cell Biology and Development Economics and Policy. She is passionate about the intersection of public health and the environment and is involved in various research projects at UConn, with the ultimate goal of pursuing a career in health research and/or nursing. In the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology she works in the Knutie Lab, where she is a Project Lead for the Nest Parasite Community Science Project, a citizen science project that analyzes differences in parasitism across the range of tree swallows and eastern bluebirds. Additionally, Caroline works under Dr. Lee in the Department of Kinesiology, assisting with projects that seek to better understand the mechanisms of human resilience in response to exercise-induced stress. Caroline is also a NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholar and completed a joint internship last summer with the National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard office and South Coast Air Quality Management District on a project examining how meteorological parameters can be used to better predict unhealthy ozone levels in the LA Basin. Caroline describes this experience as most meaningful in the way it highlighted current environmental injustices issues related to air quality and climate change. At COP27, she is most excited to learn about grass-roots efforts from climate groups around the world. Outside of academics, Caroline is a member of the UConn Women’s D1 Cross Country and Track Teams and EcoHusky, the school environmental club