People of PRI

Cariad Williams, paleontology PhD student

Oct 25, 2019 8:00 am

Paul Marcum with Carex decomposita at Round Pond Swamp in Pope County, Illinois.

Kristopher Maxson, large river fisheries ecologist

Aug 13, 2020 8:00 am

Kevin Cummings, INHS mollusk collection curator

Apr 29, 2019 9:00 am

Sam Heads, PRI Center for Paleontology director and curator

Aug 16, 2019 12:00 pm

Auriel Fournier, director of Forbes Biological Station

Jun 13, 2019 8:00 am

Erica Hernandez, INHS graduate student

Oct 25, 2019 9:00 am

Max Allen emerging from a brown bear den in Slovenia.

Maximilian Allen, assistant research scientist

Apr 28, 2020 1:00 pm

Aaron Yetter, waterfowl ecologist

Apr 16, 2020 10:00 am

Emily Szott, large river fisheries ecologist

Jul 9, 2020 9:00 am

Sara Johnson, INHS graduate student

Oct 24, 2019 9:00 am

Ed DeWalt, aquatic entomologist

Jul 29, 2020 8:00 am

Dominique Turney, aquatic nuisance species specialist

Dec 13, 2019 11:15 am

Zachary Witzel, large river fisheries ecologist

Oct 9, 2020 8:00 am

Chelsea Kross, quantitative ecologist

Jun 2, 2020 9:00 am

Liz Miernicki, wetland soils specialist

Jun 13, 2020 9:15 am

Jehnsen Lebsock, large river fisheries ecologist

Aug 28, 2020 8:00 am

Allison Bryant, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) specialist

Apr 30, 2021 8:00 am

Lynsey Harper, INHS postdoctoral research associate

Lynsey Harper, eDNA postdoctoral research associate

Oct 17, 2019 8:00 am

Jordyn Chace in the Mark Davis Lab in NRES and the Illinois Bat Conservation Program

Jordyn Chace, graduate student

Oct 27, 2021 8:00 am

Jordyn Chace says she has always wanted to be a conservation biologist, even before she knew that it was a real career. Now she's a bat genomicist with the Illinois Natural History Survey.

Anthony Porreca, assistant director of Kaskaskia Biological Station

Nov 15, 2019 11:15 am

Claire Johnson, avian ecologist

Jun 3, 2021 8:00 am

Jeff Stein, fisheries ecologist

Aug 13, 2019 12:00 pm

Hayden Hedman, eco-epidemiology postdoctoral researcher

Jan 8, 2020 4:15 pm

Kristen Ragusa, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) field scientist

Mar 28, 2021 12:15 pm

Miles Bensky, sport fish postdoctoral researcher

Mar 17, 2020 8:00 am

Kevin Johnson with a bird perched on his shoulder.

Kevin Johnson, principal research scientist

Apr 21, 2020 12:00 pm

Jake Lux, conservation resource specialist

Apr 20, 2021 8:00 am

Hillary Glandon, postdoctoral researcher

May 19, 2021 9:00 am

Carly Fenstermacher, INHS graduate student researcher

Oct 26, 2020 8:00 am

Curtis Twellmann, Illinois Learn to Hunt regional R3 planner

Mar 4, 2021 8:00 am

Jason Buckley, Learn to Hunt workshop coordinator

Sep 26, 2020 8:00 am

Diane and Ed Wilhite, insect collection volunteers

Apr 28, 2021 8:00 am

Joe Parkos, director of the Kaskaskia, Sam Parr, and Ridge Lake Biological Stations

Jun 17, 2019 11:30 am

Auriel Fournier standing in front of wetlands

Auriel Fournier, director of Forbes Biological Station

Apr 11, 2022 8:00 am

Auriel Fournier, a waterfowl ecologist and director of the Forbes Biological Station, has been awarded a 2022 PRI Early Career Researcher Award. Fournier also leads the major National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded Firebird project focused on waterbirds in the Gulf of Mexico, which involves collaborators from multiple agencies and organizations.

Jesse Williams: large river fisheries ecologist

Aug 8, 2019 12:00 pm

Daniel Raudabaugh, postdoctoral researcher

Oct 12, 2020 9:00 am

Claire Johnson, INHS graduate student researcher

Oct 26, 2020 8:00 am

John Gatto, aquatic postdoctoral researcher

Feb 13, 2020 9:00 am

Claire Snyder, assistant scientist, large river fisheries ecology

Jun 12, 2019 12:45 pm

Josh Osborn, waterbird ecologist

Nov 20, 2019 10:45 am

Emily Struckhoff, INHS graduate student researcher

Oct 26, 2020 8:00 am

Megan Cowan-Cranmer, field biologist

Sep 15, 2021 8:00 am

Megan Cowan-Cranmer has been a field biologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey's Great Rivers Field Station for over 14 years, and is also this year's 2021 Confluence Conservation Leader awardee. Confluence Conservation Leader recipients work tirelessly to advocate, educate and inspire action in areas of environmental education, sustainability, and land conservation.

Rohini Vembar, INHS graduate student researcher

Oct 25, 2022 2:00 pm

INHS graduate student Rohini Vembar grew up surrounded by science, and—even as an elementary school student—knew she wanted to go into some STEM field.

Stephanie Schmidt, INHS graduate student

Oct 26, 2020 8:00 am

Caitlin Bloomer, INHS graduate student

Oct 23, 2019 9:00 am

Robbie Emmet, postdoctoral research associate

Sep 13, 2021 8:00 am

Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) postdoctoral research associate Robbie Emmet is looking forward to working with INHS researchers and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) staff to answer management-relevant research questions and combine the multiple amazing data sets that IDNR has collected for decades.

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