Annette Summers Engel is an American earth scientist who is Donald and Florence Jones Professor of Aqueous Geochemistry at the University of Tennessee.
[1] Whilst at summer camp at Carter Caves State Resort Park, Engel realised she wanted to be a geologist.
During one of her adventures she became aware of the Movile Cave ecosystems, and was eventually offered a position on the research team in Romania.
She stayed in Ohio for her graduate studies, and completed her Master's dissertation on the Movile Cave at the University of Cincinnati.
Alongside caves, Engel worked on coastal systems, particularly focusing on how ecosystems were impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.