Mackenzie Laney

Mackenzie earned her B.S. in Marine Biology and B.A. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2021. During her undergraduate studies she conducted an honors thesis on the impacts of Hurricane Florence on the benthic population of the Cape Fear River estuary, and also fell in love with teaching organic chemistry. In the year between starting graduate school, she worked as a lab technician in an analytical chemistry lab in Denver, Colorado. In 2024, she earned a Master’s in Marine, Atmospheric and Sustainability Sciences at Stony Brook University, and her thesis investigated the bioaccumulation of PFASs by marine polychaetes. In her free time, she enjoys going to concerts, hiking, and reading.