Kristin Wilson is an interdisciplinary geoscientist interested in the response of salt marshes and mangroves to climate and coastal land-use change. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and holds a Masters in Marine Biology, a Masters in Marine Policy, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Science, all from the University of Maine. She taught for two years in the Environmental Science Department at Allegheny College and one year in the undergraduate and graduate Marine Science programs at the University of the Virgin Islands.
As a NERR System Graduate Research Fellow between 2008 and 2010, Kristin did research in the salt marshes of the Ogunquit River.
Kristin left her position in summer 2015 to return to the University of the Virgin Islands.