Sabrina Drill

Sabrina Drill, Emeritus Natural Resources Advisor, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties; University of California Cooperative Extension

Sabrina Drill recently retired as UCCE’s Urban Natural Resources Advisor in LA and Ventura Counties and was one of the founders of CalNat. Currently, she teaches conservation biology at the University of Oklahoma; is a Climate Extension Fellow with the National Extension Climate Initiative; and a Urban Resilience Fellow at the Western Center for Metropolitan Extension and Research. She supports engaging diverse communities to connect with, protect, restore, and benefit from urban nature.  Most of her work is related to building climate resilience, and protecting and restoring urban streams and watersheds.  She’s deeply interested in how to support nature stewardship and how public participation in science (“citizen” science) can engage communities and result in better conservation and socio-economic outcomes. She has a Master’s Degree in Biology and a Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA, and has worked on conservation and management of aquatic ecosystems in New York, the US Southwest, and East Africa.