Melissa Langley

Melissa joined CRC part-time in 2022 as a lab technician and now works full-time to help coordinate volunteer and lab work for seasonal monitoring programs for bacteria, nutrients, and microplastics. She previously worked at Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., Association to Preserve Cape Cod, and Buzzards Bay Coalition doing water quality and salt marsh restoration field, lab, grant, and permitting work.

Melissa holds a M.S. in Environmental Conservation from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, where she looked at the successes and shortcomings of tidal restoration projects in salt marshes on Cape Cod. She also holds a B.A. in Linguistics from McGill University. In her free time, Melissa loves to cook, spend time at the river, and do arts and crafts.