In 2006, Marta Niepytalska graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where she studied American cultural studies. She is currently working on her PhD thesis, entitled “An Eco-Biography of the Salton Sea,” supervised by Christof Mauch of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. This study will identify and examine cultural and ecological transformations of the Salton Sea, in order to provide an extensive biography. Since the Salton Sea is a man-made lake, the various concepts related to the Anthropocene are highly relevant.