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= Jennie Dee Janssen = Jennifer (Jennie) Dee Janssen is a recognized leader in the management of aquatic animals in human care and the humans that provide that care. Over the last two decades, she has worked at Tennessee Aquarium (https://tnaqua.org/), Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies (https://www.ripleyaquariums.com/gatlinburg/) , Georgia Aquarium , and National Aquarium , and she is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Minorities in Aquarium and Zoo Science (MIAZS) whose mission is to advance aquarium and zoo science by diversifying the people and perspectives within these fields https://www.miazs.org/. She has been recognized with numerous awards including the Top 10 of the Blooloop 50 Zoo & Aquarium Influencer List in 2022.

Early career
Jennie graduated from Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, MD. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN in 1999, during which she did an internship under Dr. George Benz working on parasitology of sharks. She went on to earn a Master of Science in Biology from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI in 2007. Early on during her academic career she took an interest in marine conservation and participated in lemon shark research at the Bimini Biological Field Station. Her shark conservation efforts took her around the world including Taiwan where she worked with diverse sharks and rays for these conservation focused aquariums. Jennie worked as a senior aquarist at the Georgia Aquarium, where she participated in opening and maintaining one of the aquarium’s marquis exhibits, Ocean Voyager, and its inhabitants including whale sharks, manta rays, great hammerheads, and a variety of sawfish, guitarfish, benthic rays, and teleost.

Current activities
In 2012, Jennie moved to the National Aquarium as the Manager of Changing Exhibits in Baltimore, MD. Since March of 2017, Jennie is an Assistant Curator of Blue Wonders in the department of Animal Care and Welfare where she manages the jellyfish, coral reef, large marine fish exhibits, and culture lab. In 2021, Jennie was one of the creators of Kraken Curriculum an award-winning (Best of Session (Aquarium and Zoo Science) and Best of Conference at the 2022 POSea Conference ) online professional development curriculum for aquatic animal care professionals in partnership with AnimalProfessional.com. The curriculum provides training for aquatic animal care professionals. That same year she co-founded Minorities in Aquarium and Zoo Science, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to advance aquarium and zoo science by diversifying the individuals and perspectives within those fields. As of Fall of 2023, MIAZS has grown to a membership network of 182. Janssen leads the International Census of Chondrichthyans in Human Care and serves on the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) professional development committee.

Select Publications
Ames, C.L.*, Klompen, A. M. L., Badhiwala, K., Muffett, K., Reft, A. J., Kumar, M., Janssen, J. D., Schultzhaus, J. N., Field, L. D., Muroski, M. E., Bezio, N., Robinson, J. T., Leary, D. H., Cartwright, P., Collins, A. G. & Vora, G. J. Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana. Communications Biology 3, 67 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0777-8

Janssen, J. D., Kidd, A., Ferreira, A. & Snowden, S. (2017). Training and Conditioning of Elasmobranchs in Aquaria In Smith, M., D. Warmolts, D. Thoney, R. Hueter, M. Murray, and J. Ezcurra (Eds.) The Elasmobranch Husbandry Manual II: Recent Advances in the Care of Sharks, Rays and their Relatives (pp. 209-221). Columbus, OH: Ohio Biological Survey.

­Janssen, J. D., Mutch, G. W. & Hayward, J. L.: Taphonomic effects of high temperature on avian eggshell. PALAIOS, 2011, v. 26, p. 658-664. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2011.p11-012r.