
Natasha Krell
PhD, 2021, UC Santa Barbara, Geography
Natasha Krell is a doctoral researcher whose work focuses on climate variability, smallholder farming systems, and food security in East Africa.
Biography
Natasha joined the Caylor Lab in Summer 2015 as an intern at the [Mpala Research Center](http://mpala.org) in Kenya where she studied vegetation pattern and fracture formation in soils. Natasha graduated from [College of the Atlantic](http://coa.edu) 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.
Education
BA in Human Ecology
College of the Atlantic
2025