Marissa Jonas

Marissa is coming to us as a recent graduate from Central College and grew up in Blair, NE. She has experience working with tallgrass prairies and has done conservation research on bats as well. She is also loves teaching others the importance of conservation and sustainability. 

While at Central College, she took advantage of a breadth of unique research opportunities, including on tallgrass prairies and netting bats for population surveys. As part of a tropical ecology class, Marissa spent three week in Costa Rica and Belize. With an NSF Research for Undergrads program, she studied the effects of the enzyme NPC-4 on phosphate in plants at St. Louis’ Danforth Center.