Samantha Harding

Sammy Harding is the Research Program Manager for Mississippi State University’s Northern Gulf Institute, supporting NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) Molecular and Computational Biodiversity Group within the AOML Omics Program. Sammy oversees research program operations, including laboratory and field activities, staff coordination, and the group’s eDNA metabarcoding, metagenomics, bioinformatics, and infrastructure projects.