Please welcome Frances Buerkens to Phytoxigene! Frances formerly worked with Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies, promoting the FlowCam to drinking water utilities and monitoring agencies around the world. Now she’s wielding her HAB monitoring expertise to help organizations boost their HAB toxin screening and prediction programs.

Frances has an MBA in Operations Management and a BS in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. Thanks to her agricultural background, she understands how water quality problems are created. She has long collaborated with customers around the world to monitor and manage source water, addressing concerns about the cyanobacteria and algae populations that proliferate largely because of agricultural runoff.