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Aquatic Invasive Species Assistant

Danielle Hilbrich

Danielle Hilbrich is the IISG's aquatic invasive species (AIS) assistant. She assists Pat Charlebois, the program’s AIS coordinator, and is located at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Illinois.   Danielle works on all aspects of AIS outreach, including helping out on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative project and developing AIS risk assessment tools for the Great Lakes.

Before coming to IISG, she was a research fellow for the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education and she was appointed to the U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office. There, she contributed to the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, worked on the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conferences and with the associated Great Lakes Indicators, and spent time on the U.S. EPA research vessel, the Lake Guardian. Danielle has a B.A. in environmental science and geography from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.