Christina is a graduate student in the UW-Madison Department of Geography. She has been a member of the Gibbs lab since 2023. Her research centers on land conservation and ownership in the United States. She uses spatial data science, GIS and cartography to examine the connections between land use change, ownership, and the environment. Currently, she is working with a newly developed national property-level database to study characteristics of privately owned conservation land.

Prior to joining GLUE, she worked as a GIS Research Analyst with the State Cartographer’s Office where she worked on habitat classification models, dasymetric population modeling, and a historic map atlas. She was a member of the 2022 NASA DEVELOP program where she and a team used NASA satellite imagery to make heat mitigation models and maps for the City of Albuquerque’s urban heat tree planting initiative. She also worked at the Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute where she updated and created maps for the Wisconsin Coastal Access Inventory. Christina received her bachelor’s degree in Cartography and GIS from UW Madison in 2022. In her free time, she likes to hobby map, craft, and spend time with her family and friends.