Abigail Tamkin

Abigail started in FABE as an undergraduate student in Biological Engineering. After some undergraduate research under Dr. Jay Martin, including an Undergraduate Honors Thesis on anaerobic digestion, she continued researching in the FABE department, earning her PhD under Dr. Martin. This research was concerned with long term performance of biorientation, specifically for hydrocarbon pollution treatment and remediation. This led to work with carbon-13 and 14 isotopes developing a method to quantify the influence of hydrocarbons in bioretention media. 

Throughout her research Dr. Tamkin enjoyed mentoring and teaching students, mostly in the form of the undergraduates who helped with her research in the lab and in the field. 

She now teaches and mentors students in the classroom as a Lecturer teaching CSM 2440: Construction Surveying and Site Development and FABENG 2110: Fluid Mechanics in Food, Agricultural and Biological Systems. She enjoys how collaborative learning is: this joint project between teacher and student to discover how an idea can be successfully grafted into our understanding of the world, and how that idea can be used and applied in our various work.