Management Team

Jennifer Rudgers, Director

Dept Biology
Univ New Mexico
jrudgers@unm.edu
rudgerslab.com

Marcy Litvak, PI

Dept Biology
Univ New Mexico
mlitvak@unm.edu
litvaklab.org

Seth Newsome, PI

Dept Biology
Univ New Mexico
newsome@unm.edu
sethnewsome.org

Yiqi Luo, PI

Center for Ecosystem Science & Society
Northern Arizona Univ
yiqi.luo@nau.edu
nau.edu

Tom E. X. Miller, PI

Dept Biosciences
Rice Univ
tom.miller@rice.edu
owlnet.rice.edu/~tm9/

Researchers

Kim Eichorst

Education and Outreach Director

Dept Biology
Univ New Mexico
kimde@unm.edu
bemp.org

Rudgers lab manager Purbendra Yogi takes a soil sample with an auger.

Purbendra Yogi

Lab Manager, PhD Candidate

Dept Biology
University of New Mexico

Professional headshot photo of Missy Bacigalupa

Melissa (Missy) Bacigalupa

SEV LTER Program Manager

Dept Biology
Univ New Mexico
mbacigalupa@unm.edu

Ara Winter

Information Manager

Dept Biology
Univ New Mexico
sevim@unm.edu

Field Crew

Field crew member Jade McLellan stands in a field, holding a butterfly net.

Jade McLellan

Bee Specialist
About Jade

Melissa Villatoro-Castaneda

Small Mammals Specialist
About Melissa

Field crew member Emerson Martin stands in a stream, holding water quality monitoring equipment.

Emerson Martin

Botany Specialist

Michelle Dent

Crew Lead, Bird Specialist

Infrastructure Team

Javier Omar Morales

Sensor Tech, Bird Specialist

William Talavera

Sensor Tech

Maya Allen, UNM
Antonia Androski, UNM
Alexi Besser, UNM
Keara Bixby, UNM
Jacob Blais, NAU
Connor Burgin, UNM
Ali Campbell, Rice
Aneesh Chandel, Cornell
Joshua Cortez, UNM
Jonathan Duran, UNM
Liz Fain, UNM
Josh Fowler, Rice
Michael Friedman, UW Madison
Paris Hamm, UNM
Carson Hedberg, UNM

Marina Hein, NMT
Matt Leister, UNM
Junran Li, Univ. Tulsa
Schuyler Liphardt, UNM
Manuela Londono, UNM
Andrea Lopez, UNM
Diana Macias, UNM
Shealyn Malone, UW Madison
Jessie Marlenee, UNM
Deklan Mengering, UGA
Cassandra Miller, UNM
Logan Novak, UGA
Timothy Ohlert, UNM
Mariah Patton, UNM

Dianne Peterson, UNM
Samantha Watson, NAU
Savannah Sanchez, UNM
Shelby Showalter, UNM
Dylan Taylor, UNM
Austin Thomas Simonpietri, NAU
Robert Thompson, WSU
Adalberto Ubinas, UNM
Derek Uhey, NAU
Sneha Vissa, NAU
Rich Wagner, UNM
Kathleen Webster, UNM
Natasha Wesely, NAU
Purbendra Yogi, UNM

Maya Allen, UNM
Toni Androski, UNM
Alexi Besser, UNM
Julieta Bettinelli, UNM
Keara Bixby, UNM
Amanda Boutz, UNM
Renee F. Brown, UNM
William Burger, Temple
Juan Camacho, UNM
Rowan Converse, UNM
Kelsey Cook, UNM
Catherine Cort, Univ Texas El Paso
Andrew Cunliffe, University of Exeter
Jonathan Duran, UNM
John Ericksen, UNM
Sasha Escamilla, UNM
Liz Fain, UNM
Silas Fischer, Univ Toledo
Benjamin Gerstner, UNM
Elijah Hall, Univ Calif Riverside
Paris Hamm, UNM
Iris Holmes, Univ Michigan
Jaret Jones, UNM
Chang Guo Jung, Northern Arizona University
Melanie Kazenel, UNM
Devon Lagueux, Univ Houston
Matt Leister, UNM
Guopeng Liang, Northern Arizona University
Andrea Lopez, UNM
Diana Macias, UNM
Michael Mann, UNM
Jessie Marlenee, UNM
Jade Mclaughlin, UNM
Bo Meng, Nanjing Agricultural Univ
Melanie Merritt, Univ Georgia
Cassandra Miller, UNM
Timothy Ohlert, UNM
Mariah Patton, UNM
Corrie Reasner, UNM
Emily Reynebeau, UNM

Lana Bolin, UNM
Tomer Duman, UNM
Elizabeth Lombardi, UNM
Nico Lubcker, UNM
Phil Manlick, UNM
Drew Peltier, NAU
Cristy Portales-Reyes, UMN

Tierney Adamson
Michael Agar
Drew Allen
Amy Bennett
Julieta Bettinelli
Eric Bhark
Nicole Bailey
Amanda Boutz
Leslie Brandt
Daniel Breecker
Kamela Bird Romero
Daniel Brese
John Boulanger
William Brewer
Debra Bryan
Jonathan Brearley
William Burger
Charles Buxbaum
Juan Camacho
Adam Collins
Rowan Converse
Kelsey Cook
Catherine Cort
Grace Crain
Melissa Cregger
Catherine Cumberland
Andrew Cunliffe
Roxanne Candelaria-Ley
Harmony Dalgleish
Andrew Edelman
Chana Elias
Lisa Ellis
John Ericksen
Sasha Escamilla
Anne Cross Evans
Chelsea Crenshaw
Silas Fischer
Alice Fretz
Marcy Gallo
Benjamin Gerstner
Casey Gilman
Robert Griffin-Nolan
Elijah Hall
Gregor Hamilton
Mary J. Harner
Yufei He
Tom Heller
Carlos Herrera
Sarah Hicks

Tamara Hochstrasser
Iris Holmes
Sung-Ho Hong
Andrew Hope
Jessica Johnson
Sebastian Gutierrez
Jaret Jones
Sydney Jones
Chang Guo Jung
Melanie Kazenel
Terri Koontz
G Kroel-Dulay
Shirley Kurc Papuga
Susan Kutvirt
David Henkel
Lucina Hernandez
Devon Laueux
Christian Lauber
Hillary Lease
Guopeng Liang
Matthew Luck
Shannon Lynch
Michael Mann
J Martinez-Vilalta
Lisa McBride
Jade McLaughlin
Thomas McOwiti
Juliana Medeiros
Donny Kelly Currens
Bo Meng
Tamera Minnick
Randy Mitchell
Annie Montes
Kina Murphy
T.L. Newberry
Jennifer Noble
Michelle Nuanez
Sean O’Neill
Eric Olivas
Kellen Paine
Nicholas Pasquale
Alaina Pershall
Jen Plaut
Julie Rakes
Corrie Reasner
Joanna Redfern
Emily Reynebeau
Theodore Roper
Travis Rusch

Kina Murphy
Arian Pregenzer
Nadia Reed
Jerusha Reynolds
Melissa Rienstra
Mason Ryan
Amanda Sacks
Volodymyr Saruta
Steven Scholle
Virginia Seamster
Betsy Shafer
Luo Shi
Robert Sinsabaugh
Kelly Steinberg
Martina Stursova
Samantha Stutz
Oona Takano
William Talbot
Michell Thomey
Teresa Tibbets
Alea Trafton
Laura Turnbull
Ben Turnley
Anna Tyler
Pavel Vakhlamov
Carlos Villareal
Brooke Wainwright
Guan Wang
Dan Warnock
Liota Weinbaum
Jeremy Weiss
Sandra White
Laura White
Judea Wiggins
Amy Williams
Shuqi Wu
Kristina Young
Lydia Zeglin
Jessica Zeglin

Alesia Hallmark, UNM
Vanessa Fernandez, UNM
Andrew Fox, UNM
Tim Hilton, UNM
Enqing Hou, NAU
Cheng-Wei Huang, UNM
Patrick Hudson, UNM
Miriam Hutchinson, UNM
Greg Maurer, JRN-LTER
Kelly Steinberg, UNM
Laura Morillas, UNM
Bob Muscarella, UNM
Laura Turnbull, Durham
Andy Rominger, Santa Fe CC
Amelia Villasenor, UNM
Kevin Wilcox, UWYO
Yu Zhou, Cornell