ORISE Post-Masters Research Fellow
U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Ms. Erica Schafer, MS is an ORISE Post-Masters Research Fellow in the Thermal & Mountain Medicine division at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) in Natick, MA. She graduated from Merrimack Colege with her Bachelor of Science in Health Science in 2022 and Master of Science in Exercise & Sport Science in 2023, and is beginning her PhD in Kinesiology at the University of Alabama in the fall of 2024. Her research is focused in cardiometabolic responses to exercise in extreme environments.