About me
Marla Garrison is Director of the Liebman Institute for Science Innovation at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois. For 29 years she taught biology at the community college level. Over the past 20 years she has studied the aquatic insect order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies). She is the author of Damselflies of Chicagoland published online by the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. She sat on the Executive Council of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas for many years and has worked with the US Fish & Wildlife Service on the federally endangered Hine's Emerald Dragonfly project. She conducts dragonfly research and surveys throughout the state of Illinois and around the country. She co-authors Nymph Cove, a quarterly news column published in the journal Argia and is currently working on her second field guide Dragonfly Nymphs of Illinois.
