Dr. Carys L. Mitchelmore is a Professor and Interim Director at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. Her research is directed towards the detection of chemical contaminants in various environmental matrices and understanding their fate, toxicity, and implications to organism and ecosystem health for application to risk assessment, regulation, and management activities to provide solutions to environmental problems

Dr. Mitchelmore is heavily invested in integrating scientific research for the management and regulatory communities serving on numerous International and National science advisory groups and as an environmental toxicologist including five National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committees, including the 2022 “Review of Fate, Exposure, and Effects of Sunscreens in Aquatic Environments and Implications for Sunscreen Usage and Human Health”.