Education: Masters of Chemical Life Science, University of Maryland; College Park Bachelor of Arts, University of California at Berkeley. Carol Adrianne Smith is a native of Long Island, New York. Her Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Biology was awarded from the University of California Berkeley, and her Master's in Chemical Life Sciences (2017) was awarded from the University College Park, Maryland. In September 2020, she became an environmental Ph.D. student at the Morgan State University graduate division specializing in Chrysora Chesapeakei, Moon Jellies, Lion's mane, and the mnemiopsis leidyi. In 2022, she spoke on WNPR radio about her microplastic research with jellyfish. Morgan State looks to solve a diversity pipeline problem in environmental sciences (WYPR). She has had several newspaper articles written about her research at Pearl MSU. In 2023, her first peer-reviewed manuscript was accepted for publication in 2023. She was awarded first place in the science graduate researcher presentation at Morgan State University. She was further selected to be a scientific researcher presenter at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on Ocean (MARCO) summit in December 2023 on her jellyfish research and contaminants.