Stribling received her B.A. in Biology from Agnes Scott College and her M.S. in Ecology from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her graduate research was based at the Jones Center, where she studied the impact of land use on the plant communities of geographically isolated wetlands and modeled change in wetland connectivity through time. Before pivoting to ecohydrology, her work in ecology focused on her first love: botany and vegetation surveys. In addition to southwestern Georgia, she has worked throughout Missouri, on the Georgia coast, and in South Africa, and studied semi-desert, prairie, savanna, forest, and wetland communities. Now, as the Research Associate for the Ecohydrology Lab, Stribling manages day-to-day lab operations, nerds-out on tidy data wrangling, and contributes to presentations and publications.