Socializing with Scientists

Katie McMahon is a PhD student in human environment geography at UC Santa Barbara, and her recent work in Science Advances  shows that children who were exposed to high humid heat in utero were significantly more likely to have stunted growth years later, as compared to those who experienced only high heat. Her research looks at the "intersections of climate & environmental change, social vulnerability, human health, and food & water security," and her next project will investigate how heat affects the health of farm workers in the Salinas Valley in California.