Celia Hampton Miller, Botanist
Celia is a Fairbanks-area botanist who has worked for the National Park Service Arctic Network since 2011, and is currently a doctoral student at UAF. She helps coordinate the Interior Alaska Native Plants society. Her research interests include vegetation succession, remote sensing, lichen ecology, and public plant education.
email: cjmiller3@alaska.edu
Lisa Strecker, Term Assistant Professor
Lisa coordinates the UAF Ethnobotany Program housed at the Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel and teaches most of the program’s classes. She is most interested in the multi-faceted ways that human cultures and plants interact and how this relationship can contribute to holistic human well-being.
email: lstrecker@alaska.edu
Dr. Katie Villano Spellman, Associate Professor
Katie works in the interface of social justice and science and her research focuses on plant ecology and science education. She is interested in how global warming is affecting boreal and tundra plant communities and finds a way to incorporate citizen science into many of her research projects.
email: klspellman@alaska.edu
Dr. Steffi Ickert-Bond, Professor of Botany, Curator of the Herbarium (ALA)
Steffi's research interests focus on understanding the phylogenetic relationship, biogeography, and gene evolution in lineages of ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants to infer historical evolutionary processes that have resulted in current patterns of biodiversity.
email: smickertbond@alaska.edu