Chattahoochee Conservation with Jess Sterling

What a precious resource we have running right thru the state of Georgia. Jess Sterling is on staff at Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and they are everywhere on the river doing floating classrooms, collecting trash, collecting water samples, and rallying corporations and volunteers to get out there and take part in keeping our “hooch” as clean for us and future generations as she can. Guest: Jess Sterling Website: chattahoochee.org Email: [email protected] Phone (Atlanta Office): 404-352-9828 Social Media: Facebook Instagram Twitter CRK-TV on Vimeo Bio: Jess Sterling is Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s Technical Programs Director. She manages CRK’s Protecting Streams and Communities from Industrial Pollution (PSCIP) program and other monitoring and research projects. She received her B.S. degree from Ohio University and earned her M.S. from the Odum School of Ecology at the University Georgia. For her master’s thesis, she studied the effects of non-point source pollution on urban stream ecosystems in the upper Oconee River watershed. Prior to graduate school, Jess conducted research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She was active in the Athens environmental community, serving as president of the Upper Oconee Watershed Network (UOWN) and on the Athens-Clarke County Water Conservation Committee. Jess is originally from Toledo, Ohio and developed a love of water during summers spent with her family on Lake Erie. She moved to Georgia in 2003, started paddling with friends, and fell in love with Georgia’s diverse rivers. Jess now lives in Atlanta’s Kirkwood neighborhood with her husband, Ben, and their three young children. This is Fly Girl Fish episode 024, first aired on 02/27/2020.

What a precious resource we have running right thru the state of Georgia. Jess Sterling is on staff at Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and they are everywhere on the river doing floating classrooms, collecting trash, collecting water samples, and rallying corporations and volunteers to get out there and take part in keeping our “hooch” as clean for us and future generations as she can.

Guest:

Jess Sterling

Website: chattahoochee.org

Email: [email protected]

Phone (Atlanta Office): 404-352-9828

Social Media:

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

CRK-TV on Vimeo

Bio:

Jess Sterling is Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s Technical Programs Director. She manages CRK’s Protecting Streams and Communities from Industrial Pollution (PSCIP) program and other monitoring and research projects. She received her B.S. degree from Ohio University and earned her M.S. from the Odum School of Ecology at the University Georgia. For her master’s thesis, she studied the effects of non-point source pollution on urban stream ecosystems in the upper Oconee River watershed.

Prior to graduate school, Jess conducted research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She was active in the Athens environmental community, serving as president of the Upper Oconee Watershed Network (UOWN) and on the Athens-Clarke County Water Conservation Committee.

Jess is originally from Toledo, Ohio and developed a love of water during summers spent with her family on Lake Erie. She moved to Georgia in 2003, started paddling with friends, and fell in love with Georgia’s diverse rivers. Jess now lives in Atlanta’s Kirkwood neighborhood with her husband, Ben, and their three young children.

This is Fly Girl Fish episode 024, first aired on 02/27/2020.