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Hi!

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I'm Kristina. 



I was born in Wisconsin and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



I graduated from Lawrence University, an amazing small liberal arts school in Wisconsin, with a Bachelor of Arts in biology in the spring of 2012. 

 

I took a gap year right after I graduated. I spent nine months working as an intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and then hiked 1,400 miles of the Appalachian Trail from March - July 2013. 



I specifically study ecology. In my field, we attempt to determine where living things are located and why they are there. I love nature and also love trying to understand why it is the way it is. That's why I do research in ecology.  



I started graduate school in the fall of 2013. I am pursuing my PhD under the guidance of Ethan White in the Weecology lab at Utah State University in Logan, UT. My PhD will be focused on the subfield of macroecology, which uses big sets of nonexperimental data to study the emergent properties of ecosystems at big temporal and spatial scales. I'm currently very interested in allometry and neutral theory in the context of macroecology. 



My ultimate goal is to be a professor. I love academia, and I want to be fully immersed in two of my greatest interests: research and teaching.