BOARD Members

President: Cailin Phillips | Vice President: Shanna Saarela-Schultz

Treasurer: Alyssa Core | Secretary: Maddie Maurer

Event & Speaker Coordinator: Kelsey White

Website Editor: Reed Fox

Audio/Visual Coordinator: Curt Kleist

Bookkeeper and Knower of Everything: Jane Zirbes

BWSR Liaison: Ben Meyer

Board Bios

Photo of Cailin on a ridge looking out over a mountain range. — President

**Cailin Phillips**
**Contact:** cphillips@netechnical.com
**Employer/Position:** Northeast Technical Services (NTS), Wetland Scientist/ Environmental Field Scientist
**Personal Quirk/Fun Fact:** I am an avid outdoors woman and have been involved with archery since I was 6 years old.
**Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands:** Watching a beautiful 200lb, 10 point buck leap over a stream I was working in, just 10 yards away.

Vice-President

**Shanna Saarela-Schultz**
**Contact:** Shanna.Saarela-Schultz@amiengineers.com

Secretary

**Madeline Maurer**
**Contact:** maddie.maurer@bolton-menk.com
**Employer/Position:** Bolton & Menk Inc./ Natural Resources Technician
**Personal Quirk/fun fact:** I am a hobbyist orchard & vineyard fruit farmer and beekeeper located in Bay City, Wisconsin.
**Favorite memory/experience related to wetlands:** Hiking around the Adirondacks, finding a patch of Twinflowers (Linnaea borealis) on the edge of a wetland.

TREASURER

Alyssa Core

Contact: alyssa.core@state.mn.us

Employer/Position: MN Board of Water and Soils Resources/ Wetland Specialist

Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I saw my first wild wolf on a hike back from the Sea Caves in northern Wisconsin. It was dusk, so there were only 3 of us still out on the ice and we were in awe of seeing it.

Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Paddling with my cousin in the Bark Bay Slough SNA in Wisconsin and nerding out on bog plants and bird watching.

**EVENT & SPEAKER COORDINATOR**

**Kelsey White**
**Contact:** kwhite@ricecreek.org
**Employer/Position:** Rice Creek Watershed District, Permit Review Technician
**Personal Quirk/Fun Fact:** I have taken multiple river trips and a Boundary Waters trip using a stand-up paddle board.
**Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands:** Assisting with Floristic Quality Assessments in the Red Lake Peatland and Pine Island State Forest areas.

Picture of Curt in a wetland holding equipment. — **Audio & Visual Coordinator**

**Curt Kleist**
**Contact:** Curt.Kleist@CKWetlands.com
**Employer/Position:** CK Wetland Services, Inc., Principal Wetland Scientist/CEO
**Personal Quirk/Fun Fact:** Nicknamed the “swamp goat”, due to intense field pace.
**Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands:** Conducting weekly aerial wetland classifications along the gulf coast from 500’ above

Photo of Reed at Mcarthy State Park in the summer. — website editor

**Reed Fox**
**Contact:** reed.fox100@gmail.com
**Employer/Position**: Northeast Technical Services (NTS), Programmer/Environmental Field Scientist
**Personal Quirk/fun fact:** I ride the line between outdoors enthusiast and indoors computer geek very closely.
**Favorite memory/experience related to wetlands:** Being able to finally find and identify native Minnesotan sundew and pitcher plants with my own eyes for the first time.