Kayle Krieg

Kayle Krieg is the State Science and Policy Fellow working with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science to support the Science and Technical Working Group of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change. She is also a PhD candidate in the Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Science Program, finishing up her dissertation at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Her doctoral work focuses on benthic macroinvertebrate species and functional diversity, and the relationship between these communities and juvenile fish assemblages in the Maryland Coastal Bays. Before coming to Maryland, Kayle earned her master's degree at the University of Arizona where her research focused on adult and larval fish behavior after exposure to water from an effluent dependent stream near Tucson, Arizona. She also worked as an Education and Outreach Specialist at the Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona and volunteered as an aquatic interpreter at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where she shared the life history of stingrays with visitors from around the world. Kayle’s research interests are broad but focus on ecological systems’ response to anthropogenic stressors.

Kayle is a member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, where she was also part of the second cohort of the Lighting the Pathway to Faculty Careers for Native in STEM program. She has been an active member of the American Fisheries Society and served as treasurer and president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Student Subunit. She is currently involved in the steering committee of the Society for Women in Marine Science where she serves as the Chapter Liaison. Kayle is devoted to science communication and outreach and has attended several science communication trainings, including with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Her spare time is spent keeping up with her family, reading, and exploring the East Coast.