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Jacqueline Adams
Environmental Careers Organization Intern
U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office
Chicago, IL

 

I am a chemist / biologist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes National Program Office. Here, I help to develop indicators for the Great Lakes Basin as well as participate in the spring and summer surveys aboard the RV Lake Guardian. While aboard, I help to collect and analyze water samples throughout the Great Lakes. I am also involved in helping to plan and execute the biannual State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference.

I spent the fall of 2002 at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory and Ecosystem Center in Woods Hole, MA. There, I studied the effects of effluent spraying on a forest and its impacts on surrounding watershed areas. I also did an independent research project geared towards the effects of induced stresses in salt marshes on benthic invertebrates. In May 2004, I graduated from Ripon College in Ripon, WI with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry / Biology.