Staff and Contact Information

Sara Grisè
Phone: 814-217-9011
E-mail: sng121@psu.edu

Sara Grisè joined Pennsylvania Sea Grant as a Coastal Outreach Specialist in November 2006. An avid nature enthusiast, Sara earned her bachelor of science in biology with a minor in psychology from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College in May 2006. She began part-time work with Sea Grant in May 2006, assisting with brown bullhead tumor research, which used radio tagging equipment to track bullhead in Presque Isle and Thompson bays. She was hired as a full time Coastal Outreach Specialist in November 2006.
 
Sara’s responsibilities include outreach and education regarding coastal environmental issues; working with various state government departments to support research based initiatives, working with the Pennsylvania Aquatic Invasive Species Council to support aquatic invasive species prevention and control efforts; assisting with the Pennsylvania Zebra and Quagga Mussel Monitoring Network; developing and updating various publications; implementing the Environmental Rediscoveries program, a shipboard education program that utilizes the Momentum, a 42-foot Friendship Sloop; and assisting with the natural history collections at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center.
                               
Items to note:

• Developed content and resources for the Pennsylvania Zebra and Quagga Mussel Monitoring Web site
• Assisted with the development of an Invasive Mussel Monitoring Video, which is designed to assist volunteer monitors in the proper way to search for invasive mussels, and how to prevent their spread
• Coauthored the publication of Movements of Brown Bullheads in and around Presque Isle Bay, Lake Erie
• Developed aquatic invasive species curriculum for the Environmental Rediscoveries program, as well as fact sheets and other publications involving AIS
• Acts as a liaison for the AIS Rapid Response subcommittee to develop a state model rapid response plan for Pennsylvania
• Implemented the Hemimysis Monitoring Network in Presque Isle Bay, which is a basin-wide monitoring effort to track the location and distribution of Hemimysis anomala in the Great Lakes.