Upper Oconee Watershed Network- Board

Board Members

Brenda Rashleigh (President)
Brenda Rashleigh has an M.S. in Environmental Science/Water Resources and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, serves on the board of Georgia River Network, and volunteers as a trainer for Georgia's Adopt-A-Stream Biological program.

Jesslyn Shields (Vice-President)

Jesslyn Shields is the vice president of UOWN and Watershed Support Coordinator at Georgia River Network, a statewide river advocacy group based in Athens. She received her M.S. in Environmental Studies from University of Montana in 2006. In between bouts of schooling, Jesslyn worked as a technician in a stream ecology lab at UGA, learning to identify and love tiny fish. Jesslyn has served on UOWN's board since 2007, and contributes internal capacity building skills as well as a passion for clean, healthy Oconee River!

Bruno Giri (Treasurer)
Bruno Giri is a chemist with the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA. He did his M.S. at Auburn University in water quality of aquaculture ponds and thinks we should all be paying attention to the water quality of our rivers and streams all the time.

Margaret Myszewski (Secretary)

Margaret Myszewski is an environmental policy analyst at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at UGA, and is responsible for researching and writing policy reports on a variety of environmental and legal topics including land use, growth management, and water resources issues.

Elizabeth Little (Science and Monitoring Chair)
Elizabeth Little is on the faculty in the Department of Plant Pathology at UGA. Besides being an outdoor enthusiast, her interests include water quality and land use issues. In addition to her position as Science and Monitoring Chair for UOWN, Elizabeth is currently president of Athens Grow Green Coalition.

Bryan Nuse

Bryan Nuse is a graduate student in the Warnell School of Forest and Natural Resources (UGA), studying floodplain ecology. His statewide canoeing experience with a small group of river enthusiasts, the Georgia River Survey, led him to join the UOWN board here at home.

Jessica Sterling
Jessica Sterling is a long-time board member and the recent president of UOWN. She is currently a graduate student in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia where she is researching the ecological impacts of urbanization on Trail, Hunnicutt and Brooklyn creeks in Athens, GA.

Amy Trice

Dave Wenner
Dr. Dave Wenner is Associate Professor of Geology at UGA with teaching and research interests in environmental chemistry of surface and groundwater waters. He holds a B.S. Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, M.S. Geology, California Institute of Technology and Ph.D. Geochemistry and Geology, California Institute of Technology. Dr. Wenner has served as a board member for the Upper Oconee Watershed Network for four years and also serves on the board of Georgia River Network.

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Postal address:
Upper Oconee Watershed Network
P.O. Box 531
Athens, Georgia, USA 30603