Jamie Van is the Water Program Director at the North Lakeland Discovery Center. Jamie received her B.S. in Biology and Natural Resource Sciences from Northland College in Ashland and spent two college summers ‘salamanderin’ in the Appalachian Mountains. Then developed her skills at positions with the Illinois Natural History Survey and working as a Restoration Ecologist & Operations Manager in Milwaukee. Jamie came to the Discovery Center in 2022 and looks forward expanding the Water Program’s reach to property owners and business to increase shoreline restoration efforts and protection of native plant communities here in the Northwoods.
