The Team

Dr. Andrés Holz, Associate Professor (Lab Director)

Research Scholars

Halima Najihi

Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Isaac Ball, MS student

Alex Bentley, MS student

Tatjana Beck, MS student

Julia Alcalá, LSAMP NSF-REU intern (ESM student)

STAFF, INTERNS, VOLUNTEERS & RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Julia Alcalá, LSAMP NSF-REU intern (ESM student)

ALUMNI & FORMER LAB MEMBERS

Kyla Zaret, PhD student (2014-2024). Wetland Ecologist with Oregon's INR.

Alec Dyer, MS student (2022-2024). Geospatial Analyst with Leidos.

Paola Arroyo-Vargas, PhD student (2020-2023). Postdoc at Univ de la Frontera, Chile.

Taylor Salazar, MS student (2021-2023)

Dr. William "Buzz" Nanavati, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023) Postdoc at U Montana.

April Hayley, NSF-REU student (Biology); now a Botany MS student in EWU.

Desmond Willson, field/lab assistant (Biology)

Jeff Smith, Field/lab assistant 

Brook Mills, Field/lab assistant

Dr. Sebastian Busby, PhD student (2020-2022). Carbon Analyst with TNC.

Josefa Ovalle, MS student (2018-21). Conservation Operations Coordinator with TNC.

Dr. Rose Graves, Postdoctoral fellow in 2019-21. NCS Scientist with TNC, Portland

Laura Platt, MS student (2017-20), research staff 2020-21. Field Ecologist at U.S. Forest Service.

Ignacio Falcón-Dvorsky, MS student (2017-20). Melbourne, Australia.

Sebastian Busby, MS student (2017-19). PhD student GEC Lab.

Emily Sykes, MS student (2017-2018). PhD student, U Georgia.

Anthony Lefort, International undergraduate Intern in 2017.

Alec Kretchun, Research Staff (Quantum Spatial Analyst).

Dmitri Kalashnikov, Undergraduate researcher in 2017. (PhD student, WSU)

Alex Fager,  Undergraduate field Assistant

Maddie Collins, Undergraduate field/lab assistant

Brian Michie, Undergraduate field assistant

Jessica Ibarra, Undergraduate field assistant

Katya Davidson, Undergraduate field assistant

Crissy Johnson, Field Volunteer

Jen Litteral, Undergraduate field assistant (MS student, GEC Lab)

Joseph Riggs, Undergraduate research assistant

Sebastian Singleton, Undergraduate Lab assistant (PhD student, OSU)

Desiree Monarrez, Undergraduate Lab assistant (MS student, Cal State Poly U)

Ian Moffett, Undergraduate Lab Assistant (BS, U British Columbia, CA)

Douglas Thalacker, MS student