Graduate Student
Britta holds a Master’s in Geography from UC Santa Barbara, where she studied smallholder farmers’ experiences with climate change and variability in the Udzungwa Mountains region of Tanzania, and a Master’s in Ecology from Utah State, where she studied irrigated agriculture in the West and machine learning applications in yield prediction. Britta’s technical expertise lies in data science, munging and wrangling, visualizing and storytelling, and teaching. Britta is currently a full-time data scientist at the US Census Bureau, and a PhD student in Ecology studying under the mentorship of Matt Yost. She lives in Logan, UT, with her partner, Blake, and their two polydactyl Manx, Leto and Ghanima. She loves northern Utah and all-things mountains and desert: rock climbing, cycling/biking, hiking, snow shoeing, downhill and XC skiing.