Meet the team

Andrea Miller is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Great Lakes Invasives Network and an Herbarium Assistant at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. She leads the network’s specimen based education initiatives with K-12 and community outreach perspectives. At the Morton Arboretum Herbarium, Andrea manages aquatics’ specimen data entry and digital imaging and shares both with regional, national, and international online databases.

Andrew Hipp is the Plant Systematist and Herbarium Curator at The Morton Arboretum. His research addresses the origins, maintenance, and conservation of plant biodiversity from an evolutionary perspective, with a focus on sedges, oaks, and tallgrass prairie.

Marlene Hahn has been a Research and Herbarium assistant in the Plant Systematics lab at The Morton Arboretum for six years. Prior to this, she taught high school biology to freshman and sophomores for three years. She has worked as project manager for both the Oaks of the Americas NSF grant as well as a Carex NSF grant. As part of the Carex grant, she worked with high school and middle school students to collect a novel morphological dataset on Carex. She received her B.S. in Microbiology at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and her M.Ed from Loyola University, Chicago.