Karen Vanek Email & Phone Number

Afton, MN, US

My core objective is to facilitate the building of a living self-regulating societal foundation that is supported through a collective shared responsibility in exercising stewardship. My 15 years of professional experience in ecological sciences, organic agriculture, and whole systems design prepared me to contribute to organizations who are interested in.

United States

I welcomed our new clients, created and marketed interactive workshops, and organized their ecological restoration projects across the globe. At every opportunity, I'd join the field teams in transplanting hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut seedlings along with surveying water management systems among these projects. I implemented new business.

Viola, WI

Forest Agriculture Nursery supplies crop-producing tree and shrub seedlings that have gone through an extensive adaptive breeding program and chosen for their compatibility in many kinds of agricultural systems. I worked with ecological agricultural experts on crop consultation and plant nursery sales that supported Regenerative Agriculture, Conservation.

Mcdonald Farm At 10S404 Knoch Knolls, Naperville, IL 60565

The Resiliency Institute is a 501(C3) whose mission is to transform the suburbs of Illinois into resilient permaculture communities rich in social and ecological capital. Early on, I taught ecological landscape design illustration and provided botanical identification tours. I also worked with TRI in designing and installing the city of Naperville's first.

19370 Highway G Mineral Point, WI 53565

I learned about all aspects of organic produce including sowing seeds, transplanting seedlings, watering, weeding, harvesting, washing, storing and packing. Additionally, I gained marketing experience by recruiting new CSA members at trade shows and selling our produce at Chicago farmer's markets. One of my most unique experiences at King's Hill Farm was.

Argonne National Laboratory

I worked in Geoffrey Greene's lab purifying and crystallizing cytosolic protein/ligand complexes for the Ben May Department for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago.Laine, Muriel & Rajan, Shyamala & Vanek, Karen & Zarnke, Allison & Greene, Geoffrey. (2011). Differential Gene Regulation by Estradiol, Estriol and Estetrol Treatment in Breast Cancer.

Greater Chicago Area

The Terrestrial Ecology Laboratory at Argonne National Laboratory first introduced me to a day in the life of an ecological researcher. During my time with Mike Miller's lab, I participated in a number of projects and gained exposure to a variety of analyses and techniques. In the Biofuels Project, I constructed plots and grew 35 switchgrass and big.

My responsibilities included gathering data from newly established fire management research plots for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Over the course of six months, my team surveyed several hundred acres of landscape in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa using Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Protocol (FIREMON). I catalogued more than 93.

This position developed my skills in establishing and maintained trusting relationships with clients through caring for their beloved pets. My work took me through many of the neighborhoods throughout Chicago where I had the pleasure of meeting many colorful personalities (both man and beast) and experiencing the diverse households that comprise this fine.

While still in Highschool, I was learned about office management and real estate. I engaged in customer service, office upkeep, organization and property advertising (both in the local newspapers and online). I developed a working knowledge of computer and communication skills as they related to real estate office work. This included creating and.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Studied biology

Master Of Arts (Ma), Environmental Studies

Study ecological design