Kaline is a research fellow at the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods - Charles Darwin University, working with wetlands ecology. She is a biologist with a Ph.D. in Biosystem Engineering from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and the University of Massachusetts (US). She has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo (2018-2021, Brazil) and the University of Queensland (2019-20020). Between 2022 and 2023 she was a research fellow conducting her research project about ecosystem services at the Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil). Kaline has worked with research on environmental policy implementation and natural resource management, especially water resources, including setting priority areas for forest conservation and restoration, the multiscale relationship between land use/land cover and water quality, riparian zones, landscape connectivity, and watershed modeling.