Katie Vigil

Katie Vigil is a certified California public health microbiologist with an M.S. and B.S. from Humboldt State University. She previously spent six years as a microbiologist at Valley Water in San Jose, focusing on drinking water compliance and harmful algal bloom monitoring. She is now a PhD student at Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, studying viral communities in marine environments. In 2023 she was a Scholarly Retreat Resident at A Studio in the Woods, where she worked on a planned publication about sequencing viruses in seawater and oysters from Barataria Bay.