Emily Tyner
PRESENTER 2026
Director of Freshwater Strategy
UW – Green Bay
Topic
Bringing a National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) to the Northeast Wisconsin: Opportunities for the Region
Emily Tyner is the Director of Freshwater Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a position she has held since 2020. In this role Emily manages both on-campus and community programs around water and is the state lead on the designation of a new National Estuarine Research Reserve for the bay of Green Bay. Before her current role, Emily spent five field seasons as a biological technician at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore while completing graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences.