Brianna is serving an AmeriCorps term in the Watershed Ambassador Program administered by the NJDEP, Division of Water Monitoring and Standards. She represents Watershed Management Area 9, which includes the Lower Raritan, South River and Lawrence Watersheds. She currently specializes in stream habitat and biological assessments, school presentations, and promoting environmental stewardship. Her host agency offices are located at NJ Water Supply Authority and Duke Farms.

Brianna launched the Mid-Atlantic Breeding Bird Monitoring Program at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site when she was the Scientists in Parks intern during her previous AmeriCorps term. She was also an Urban Forestry intern under Dr. Jason Grabosky at Rutgers University. She spent this time co-authoring several papers, completing forest inventories and assessments, and contributing to research on the pipe model theory, plant identification technology, skeletal soils, and forest thinning. 

She graduated from Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences with a B.S. in Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources in 2022. She is also a member of ANJEC’s Emerging Leaders Committee. She hopes to attend graduate school and eventually work on her own ecological research one day. When not in the field, Brianna enjoys attending concerts, and teaching her piano and guitar students.