CKISS Team

Erin Bates, P. Ag. Executive Director
ebates@ckiss.ca, 1-844-352-1160 ext 205

  • Primary communications and information sharing
  • Strategic long-term program planning and development
  • Overall program coordination and management
  • Financial resource development and management
  • Human resource management
  • Overall education and outreach programming
  • Media

Laurie Carr, Development Coordinator
lcarr@ckiss.ca, 1-844-352-1160 ext 210

  • Program building and collaboration
  • Membership and partnership development
  • Planning and coordination
  • Board engagement
  • Administration

Khaylish Fraser, Aquatics Program Coordinator
kfraser@ckiss.ca, 1-844-352-1160 ext 207

  • Clean, Drain, Dry & Don’t Let it Loose programs
  • Aquatic invasive species education, outreach and training
  • Zebra and Quagga mussel monitoring program
  • Bullfrog surveillance and eradication program
  • Columbia Basin aquatic invasive species program

Kalenna Olynyk, P. Ag. Field Program Manager
kolynyk@ckiss.ca, 1-844-352-1160 ext 206

  • Operational development and planning
  • Inventory, mapping development and coordination
  • Coordination of invasive species treatments
  • Field staff supervisor
  • General education and awareness

Laurie Frankcom, Education Program Coordinator
lfrankcom@ckiss.ca, 1-844-352-1160 ext 208

  • Don’t Let it Loose, PlayCleanGo and PlantWise programs
  • Community weed pull and restoration events
  • School and youth programs
  • General education and awareness
  • Media, communications and marketing
  • Summer student supervisor

Molly Tilden, Interim Assistant Field Program Manager
mtilden@ckiss.ca, 1-844-352-1160

  • Invasive plant surveys and inventories
  • Treatment monitoring
  • Data management
  • Spatial analysis and mapping