Kristen Koch

Kristen Koch

  • Program Manager
107 Church Hall
777 West Harrisburg Pike
MIddletown, PA 17057

Areas of Expertise

  • Stormwater Management
  • Riparian Buffers
  • Landuse Impacts to Stream Health
  • Agricultural Water Resources Issues
  • Innovative Watershed Restoration Approaches

Education

  • B.S. Environmental Resource Management- Penn State University
  • M.S. Public Administration- Penn State University

 Kristen Koch is a Program Manager for the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center. Her work focuses on building partnerships, outreaching to landowners, developing educational resources, and coordinating volunteer events to improve local water quality in the Lower Susquehanna region. She has strong interests in conservation landscaping, riparian buffers, and municipal stormwater. She has both her bachelor's degree in Environmental Resource Management and her Master's in Public Administration from Penn State. She is also a certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional trainer.