Amy Wagner is an associate professor and chair of the Geology Department at California State University Sacramento (known as Sac State). Amy uses geochemical techniques to answer questions about past ocean and climate conditions. She has spent more than a year at sea on oceanographic research cruises across the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans.
Amy leads the WagsLab lab at Sac State where her students work on projects including extracting water from plant and soil for isotope analysis, using isotopes of precipitation to track atmospheric river events, oxygen and carbon isotope records of marine foraminifera and corals, and using seawater isotopes as a water mass tracer.