Kristin Davis

Kristin is a postdoctoral researcher with the Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment and the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship at UC Berkeley. She got her master’s degree and PhD at Colorado State University and her bachelor’s degree at The College of William and Mary. Her academic background largely has focused on collaborative, applied research to inform bird conservation, such as stakeholder-driven grazing management practices to support grassland birds and using statistical modeling and decision science tools with a national group of scientists/biologists to investigate potential drivers of population decline for a widespread falcon species. Over the course of graduate school, however, Kristin became increasingly excited by the potential of big data to address environmental challenges from local to landscape scales. She aims to use the combined powers of collaboration, connection, data, and technology to inform the ethical and equitable development/implementation of conservation and land management approaches. At Berkeley, she’ll focus this goal on conservation approaches for working landscapes (e.g., grazing lands). 

In her free time, Kristin loves being with family and friends, listening to podcasts, reading, practicing amateur mixology, and enjoying non-water-based outdoor recreation. She works remotely from Fort Collins, Colorado.