Katherine Nelson
Associate Professor
Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Nelson is an associate professor of sustainability at the University of Missouri with nine years of academic experience bridging environmental engineering and socio-ecological research. She leads the SCALes lab, investigating how landscape diversity, crop diversity, and policy shape agricultural and community resilience—from equity in strategic retreat implementation to scaling relationships that influence yields. Trained as an environmental engineer (PhD, Vanderbilt) she combines quantitative vulnerability assessment with policy-relevant, place-based research across rural landscapes. Her work blends rigorous modeling with stakeholder-engaged assessment, producing insights that inform both adaptation practice and sustainable land management. Based in Columbia, Missouri, she has a track record of moving between lab science and applied sustainability at institutions including Kansas State and Washington University. Colleagues value her interdisciplinary approach and focus on equity within technical assessments, an angle that often reveals practical trade-offs overlooked by purely biophysical studies.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Environmental Engineering, PhD, Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt UniversityMS, Environmental Engineering, MS, Environmental Engineering at Washington University in St. LouisBS, Environmental Engineering, BS, Environmental Engineering at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (2)
react4
markdown2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
katesnelson/waterway-sim
Jan 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
waterwaysimulationnavigation
katesnelson/SCALes-website
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:502 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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