Beth Connors is a marine microbial ecologist, with an interest in the microbiological components of global biogeochemical cycling and climate change. She holds a dual BA in Marine Science and Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. As a certified SCUBA Divemaster, she has worked as a science diver in Tahiti, coastal California, and the Caribbean. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, focusing on bacterial ecology along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.