Rebecca Matecha

Dr. Matecha is a passionate educator and mentor with a focus on hands-on and applied learning opportunities for students. They are an aqueous geochemist and mineralogist with particular interest in environmental impacts of the fossil fuel industry and understanding mineral precipitation, dissolution, and alteration during fluid flow in sedimentary basins. They are also heavily involved in outreach aimed at introducing young girls to STEM fields and female mentors. In their spare time, they foster kittens, wander the woods looking for cool rocks, play the cello, and dabble in pottery and painting. They are happy to have visitors to their office and always have a geology-related puzzle in progress for guests to work on.