Joy Scrogum

Information Specialist
jscrogum@wmrc.uiuc.edu

Joy's primary duties involve the maintenance and expansion of the Topic Hubs, Sector Resources, and searchable Contacts Database portions of the Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) website, www.glrppr.org. The Topic Hubs and Sector Resources are subject-specific online guides to pollution prevention information and experts. GLRPPR serves Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as Ontario, Canada. Joy also edits GLRPPR's quarterly newsletter, the LINK. In addition to her duties for GLRPPR, she works with the Pollution Prevention Program's Marketing Committee and assists with the DuPage County Environmental Education Project. Joy earned a B.S. in Liberal Arts and Sciences (Biology) and an M.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). For her master's degree she specialized in fish and wildlife ecology, studying sarcoptic mange in urban and rural red fox populations. Her previous research experience also includes genetic research on microorganisms and participation in the Space Life Sciences Training Program at Kennedy Space Center, for which she performed wildlife research at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Joy's previous work experience includes being a member of, and later managing, the lab preparatory staff for the introductory biology sequence at UIUC. During graduate school, she assisted the NRES Communications and Development Specialist, a job which consisted of writing and editing for the departmental newsletters, event planning, preparing promotional materials, performing online research, collecting information for the departmental web site, and maintaining archives. She completed one and half years toward a Ph.D. in NRES at UIUC, focusing on human-animal interactions, before deciding to take time off from school to join the staff of WMRC. Joy has been a member of the WMRC Information Services Program since November 2001.