Sarah Griscom

Sarah completed her BS in Earth and Marine Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz and worked as a Marine Geologist for the US Geological Survey. She completed her PhD in Coastal Oceanography, focusing on the cycling of radioactive contaminants in the coastal zone. For five years she was a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and collaborated with the Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Security in France. The collaboration brought her family to France for a year. Sarah left research and taught undergraduate oceanography and high school sciences after she gained her Massachusetts teaching certificate in chemistry. She was hired by Pleasant Bay Community Boating to build an environmental science program to compliment the sailing program. The program morphed into a summer day-camp for local working families and visitors. Sarah presently works part-time with the Town of Chatham as a water quality scientist and lives with her husband in Chatham.