Dr. Kristen Lycett grew up in the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon and spent her childhood exploring the temperate rain forests in her backyard. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe and is currently learning her ancestral language, Takelma, through a tribal education program. She moved to Maryland in 2009 and fell in love with Environmental Education and the Chesapeake Bay. Accepted into the graduate program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, she worked with Dr. Joseph Pitula studying blue crab populations and the crustacean parasite, Hematodinium perezi and completed her Ph.D. in Marine Estuarine Environmental Science. Kristen is the Executive Director of Phillips Wharf Environmental Center in 2021 and is working to rebuild and revitalize the nonprofit in a new location in Easton, Maryland.
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