Kristen Giesting is a NRCS Liaison at the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science at USDA-NRCS. She possess expertise in research, sustainability, microsoft word, laboratory, microsoft excel and 6 more skills. She is proficient in German (conversational). Colleagues describe her as "Kristen was an excellent research student when she worked in my microbial genetics laboratory at Otterbein University. She conducted fieldwork, collecting water samples and then used a variety of microbiological and molecular techniques, including metagenomics to assess bacterial diversity and resistance to triclosan. Kristen's work will soon be submitted for publication in a scientific journal, and she has already presented her work at two national and one international scientific conference."