Kelly Caylor
Editor In Chief, Earth's Future at UC Santa Barbara
California, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Caylor is a distinguished professor and environmental scientist shaping the conversation at the intersection of hydrology, ecology, and climate resilience. As Editor in Chief of Earth's Future (American Geophysical Union) and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara, she leads multidisciplinary efforts to understand how vegetation structure and hydrological processes interact across drylands, with implications for water resources and food security. Her research blends field observations, remote sensing, and analytical modeling to reveal how ecosystem function and surface water dynamics co-evolve locally and regionally. An entrepreneur as well as a scholar, she founded Arable Labs to translate ecohydrology insights into real-world agricultural tools. Based in California, she has built a career spanning UC Santa Barbara, Princeton, Indiana University, and beyond, underscoring a track record of leadership in both academia and research administration. Her work uniquely bridges theory and application, with a practical focus on drylands, land degradation, and climate-smart agriculture.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Environmental Science, PhD Environmental Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (48)
environmental9
dispatch9
api-framework8
flask8
python8
mongodb8
api8
documentation-generator8
parallel-processing8
rest8
ecology8
loops7
jekyll7
data-structures7
rest-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Arable/evepod
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:75 commits in 5 months
kcaylor/biobib
Jun 2018 - Jun 2023
Build a UCSB Biobib from csv files.
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
csvpythoncsv-filesmanuallatex
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