Dr. Kathryn Youngblood

Kathryn Youngblood is a Senior Research Engineer at the Jambeck Circularity Informatics Lab at the University of Georgia College of Engineering. Building on her environmental engineering background, Kathryn’s work focuses on data collection and geospatial data analysis to prevent plastic pollution at the community level. Kathryn is a member of the core team that developed and scaled the Circularity Assessment Protocol (CAP), a holistic baselining tool that provides actionable data on circularity at the community level. CAP has now been conducted in 56 cities in 16 countries around the world. Kathryn also directs Marine Debris Tracker, a community science app used to log open data on plastic pollution. Debris Tracker has been used to record more than 9 million debris items in over 90 countries around the world, and Kathryn works to support researchers, non-profit organizations, educators and more to use the app to streamline data collection and promote data sharing.