We are excited to announce that Katie Reed is our new Winnebago Waterways Coordinator! She will be managing our volunteer-based Water Quality Monitoring Program, Shoreline Program, and additional projects within the Winnebago Waterways Program at Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance. She brings her passion and experience of aquatic projects conducted in lakes around the world to her hometown watershed.
Welcome Katie!
Katie is originally from Oshkosh. She started heading south when she attended UW-Madison for her undergraduate degree. There, she fell in love with the study of lakes (limnology), and graduated from UW-Madison in 2015 with a B.S. in Zoology and Life Sciences Communication and a certificate in Chinese Business Communication. From Madison, she decided to give snow a break and headed further south to the University of North Carolina Wilmington for graduate school. However, the cold wasn’t done with her yet and she headed very, very south: to Antarctica! Her dissertation research focused on zooplankton (small invertebrates) in Antarctic lakes, studying the lake factors that allow for long-term dormancy in zooplankton species in Antarctic lakes and other freshwater lakes around the world. She also looked at the biology of dormancy back in the lab. Katie went on a total of three Antarctic expeditions.
Following graduate school, Katie headed to the southwest US to Las Vegas, Nevada where she worked on aquatic invasive species and water quality monitoring at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. She has now returned to Wisconsin and is looking forward to working in the Winnebago Waterways Program.
In her spare time, Katie can usually be found with her feet in the water (in summer) and her nose in a book (year-round). She also enjoys visiting museums, kayaking, hiking and traveling.
We are very happy to have Katie join our team. She can be reached by email at katherine@fwwa.org.
Winnebago Waterways is a Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance recovery initiative. Contact us at wwinfo@fwwa.org
