Dr. Jane Frankenberger is a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University and Extension specialist focusing on water quality and watershed management. She works to advance innovative agricultural water management that improves water quality while maintaining production in drained agricultural land. She delivers water-related tools and strategies to stakeholders who can use them to inform decisions, including through the Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy which she founded and leads. She has also been a visiting scientist at USDA and USEPA in Washington DC. Before coming to Purdue, she spent eight years in Africa, first teaching Math and Physics (in French) and then working on small-scale irrigation with women’s cooperatives. She has degrees from St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota, and Cornell University.

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Dr. Inez Hua is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University.  Dr. Hua has expertise in aquatic chemistry, environmental sustainability, water pollution control, and the environmental fate of organic contaminants. She has recently completed projects related to the photochemistry of emerging contaminants and water consumption in supply chains. Additional research areas include sustainable electronics and environmental sustainability in engineering education.  Dr. Hua obtained both her Doctoral and Master's degrees from the California Institute of Technology in Environmental Science and Engineering.

Dr. Katie O'Reilly joined Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and the Illinois Natural History Survey in 2022 after completing her Ph.D. in aquatic ecology at the University of Notre Dame. As the Aquatic Invasive Species Specialist, Katie provides community groups with the knowledge and tools they need to prevent the introduction and spread of harmful non-native aquatic plants, animals, and pathogens in the Great Lakes region. Some AIS programs and initiatives she works on include the Great Lakes Invasive Crayfish Collaborative, Aquatic Invaders in the Marketplace, and Illinois's "Be a Hero – Transport Zero" invasive species prevention campaign. Katie also works with scientists to improve their science communication skills and help them become more effective communicators.

Dr. John J. Quinn is currently the Principal Hydrogeologist with the Environmental Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Dr. Quinn’s work is in three main areas: perennial bioenergy crops and associated ecosystem services, phytoremediation approaches to industrial and agricultural contaminants, and water resources studies including numerical groundwater modeling. He is the Principal Investigator of several current projects at Argonne and hosted the 2023 International Phytotechnology Conference.  Dr. Quinn previously served as a visiting instructor at the Harris School of Public Policy.  He was also a Geological Engineer with Black and Veatch in Chicago.  Dr. Quinn received both his Doctoral and Master's degrees in Hydrogeology from the University of Minnesota.  He is also a Purdue University alumni, where he received both a BS in Geoscience and a BSE in Geo-Engineering.