Isla Castaneda

Isla Castaneda

About Isla

IslaDescribesLabWork Isla is an assistant professor of organic chemistry.  She looks at molecular fossils, called bio-markers, found in sediments, rocks and soils. The bio-markers are indicators of past living organisms that can be as old as 10,000, a million or even a billion years old. The bio-markers can tell us something about the environmental conditions of the time.