Kristin graduated from Williams College in 2003 with a double major in Biology and Environmental Studies. After graduating she completed a summer of courses and field work at the Duke Marine Laboratories, before she switched gears to teach middle school environmental education. She worked at outdoor schools in Saco, ME, Worton, MD, and Tacoma, WA. She returned to school in the Fall of 2005 to receive her Masters of Arts in Teaching for middle and high school science (Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR). She did what some called crazy and decided to keep exploring other parts of her interests in marine conservation science after completing her degree. She joined the AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Project and worked in fisheries policy at the Institute for Fisheries Resources in San Francisco, CA before starting her graduate work at MLML with Dr. Rick Starr in the Fall of 2007. Her research interests are patterns in species distribution with respect to landscape-scale habitat characteristics. She is assists with the collaborative fishing projects and is the Resarch Assistant for the Delta submersible survey project. When she is not in class or out on a boat, Kristin enjoys hiking, telemark skiing, and playing with middle school students at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.