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Nicholas Boston
Educational Program Administrator
Research Interests: Hiring/Payroll (Unclassified & Special Payroll), course scheduling, departmental finances, Foundation, & visa processing
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Dana Drake
Research Associate I
Research Interests: Lab manager, Mark Urban Lab; study ecological mechanisms that shape natural communities; vernal pool ecosystems; amphibians
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Cole Geissler
Horticulturist
Research Interests: Native orchid conservation, tropical collections management, and tissue culture techniques
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Harrison Goodale
Educational Program Assistant 2
Research Interests: Graduate admissions, graduate payroll, department outreach and communication, and event coordination
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Freddy Guilao
Financial Assistant 1
Research Interests: Payroll (Undergrad) travel/reimbursement, purchase orders/requisitions (HuskyBuy)
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Erin Kuprewicz
Vertebrate Collections Manager
Research Interests: Plant-animal interactions (tropical mammals and insects); behavioral ecology of terrestrial mammal seed dispersers; barriers to plant migrations in the Anthropocene
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Katrina Menard
Invertebrate Collections Manager
Research Interests: Collection Manager of Invertebrates; Systematic Entomology; Heteroptera.
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Rachel Prunier
Academic Assistant 4
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology and population genomics of plants. Evolution of diversity in hyper diverse regions.
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Sarah Taylor
Herbarium Collections Manager
Research Interests: Plant Collections Manager; New England floristics; conservation of historic botanical collections