Natasha Krell
Natasha received her PhD from the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara, studying climate variability impacts on smallholder agricultural systems and food security in East Africa using IoT sensors and SMS-based surveys.
Biography
Natasha joined the Caylor Lab in Summer 2015 as an intern at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya where she studied vegetation pattern and fracture formation in soils. Natasha graduated from College of the Atlantic in 2016.
Natasha's research explored the intersection between information technologies, climate variability, and food security in smallholder systems. She was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Kenya in 2018, was appointed as a Schmidt Environmental Fellow, and her dissertation was supported by Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.
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Education
BA in Human Ecology
College of the Atlantic
2026
PhD in Geography
UCSB
2021