Welcome, Lorena!

Lorena is the new Project Manager with IAN in Annapolis, Maryland. She got her degree in Biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, and her Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Sciences from the University of California Riverside. In 2020 she was an AAAS Mass Media Fellow writing for the Indianapolis Star and has experience in public outreach and writing for outlets in the U.S. and Mexico. She was academic editor for Botany One, a blog about plant research run by the Annals of Botany Company. Lorena joins IAN’s team to help produce report cards for the Clinton, Detroit, Huron, River Raisin, and Rouge Rivers and will work with Dr. Andrew Elmore to coordinate the recently created research network known as Landscape Exchange Network for Socio-environmental systems (LENS). Lorena enjoys running, photographing plants and annotating them to share cool plant facts on social media.

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