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.