Maria Lemke
Maria Lemke currently directs the science program for The Nature Conservancy in Illinois. Since 2002, much of her work as a freshwater biologist with the Conservancy has revolved around working with partners to implement and quantify effectiveness of agricultural conservation practices in the Mackinaw River watershed and conducting wetland research at Conservancy’s floodplain restoration sites along the Illinois River. Prior to working for The Nature Conservancy, Maria worked for several years with the Illinois Natural History Survey. She was stationed at the Illinois River Biological Station in Havana, Illinois, and focused on monitoring larval fish and zooplankton production in backwater lakes on the Illinois River. Maria received her B.S. and M.S degrees from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied the response and recovery mechanisms of aquatic insect communities to flooding and drying disturbances. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama where her research focused on population and production dynamics of wetland microcrustaceans.
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