Jennifer Phillips-Vanderberg

Jennifer is a Ph.D. biologist with extensive experience conducting ornithological research. She worked as a life scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago, addressing pollution-control issues in the Great Lakes Region. Jenn received her doctorate in animal behavior from UCalifornia-Davis, where she studied the evolutionary relationships among climate, life history, and coloration in birds. Her life-long affection for the Great Lakes region began in a town on Lake Huron; she worked as a naturalist at Michigan DNR’s Saginaw Bay Visitor Center, teaching ornithology, conservation biology, ecology, and other subjects.