Savannah joined the Russell lab in the fall of 2016 and successfully defended her dissertation in summer of 2022. Prior to joining the group, Savannah received her bachelor's degree in Biochemistry (2016) from California State University, Fullerton. Savannah worked on quantifying the complexities of marine aerosol organic composition using a suite of instrumentation including FTIR and STXM-NEXAFS. She received the NSF-GRFP in 2018 and has spent much of that time linking the properties of the sea surface microlayer and both ambient and generated aerosol particles.