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Principal Investigator

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Dr. Jenn Rudgers
Professor
Director Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
286 Castetter Hall
Office Phone: 505-277-6185
Link to Google Scholar

Home Website
Email: jrudgers@unm.edu

Post-doc

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Dr. Vanessa Moreira C. Fernandes (she/her)
Interests: Biocrusts, Global Change Biology, Microbial Ecology, Plant-Microbe Interactions
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Link to Research Gate
Link to Google Scholar
Link to LinkedIn

​Email: vfernandes@unm.edu

Graduate Students

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Melissa (Missy) Bacigalupa (she/her)
Interests: Dryland plant community ecology, rangeland dynamics, global change biology
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321 CERIA
​Link to LinkedIn
Email: mbacigalupa@unm.edu 

Ben Gerstner
Keara Bixby
Interests: Middle Rio Grande Riparian System, Biological Controls, Arthropod Riparian Ecology
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​282 Castetter Hall
Email: 
kbixby@unm.edu

Ben Gerstner
Melanie Kazenel (she/her)
Interests: Community Ecology, Mutualisms, Pollination Ecology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Global Change Biology ​
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282 Castetter Hall
Link to Google Scholar
Link to Website
Email: 
mkazenel@unm.edu

Ben Gerstner
Michael Mann
Interests: Community Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Fungal Community Assembly, Phylogenetics 
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282 Castetter Hall
Email: 
mimann@unm.edu

Ben Gerstner
Jade McLaughlin
Interests: Pollination Ecology, Arthorpoda and Plantae Natural History
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Find on Twitter: 
@beecology_JM
Email: 
jmclaugh@unm.edu

Ben Gerstner
Cassandra Maria Luz Miller (she/her)
Interests: Global Change Biology, Microbial Ecology, Dryland Carbon Cycling
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282 Castetter Hall
Link to Google Scholar
Email: 
millerca@unm.edu

Ben Gerstner
Mariah Patton
Interests: Biocrusts, Community Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Global Change Ecology, Plant-Soil Interactions 


282 Castetter Hall
Link to Google Scholar
Email: 
mtpatton@unm.edu


Ben Gerstner
Dylan Taylor (he/him/his)
Interests: Species coexistence, microbial ecology, plant-fungal interactions, global change biology
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282 Castetter Hall

Ben Gerstner
Purbendra N Yogi
Interests: Colonization, Mutualism, Mycorrhizae, Phytogeography ​
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282 Castetter Hall
Email: 
yogip@unm.edu

Ben Gerstner
Shaun Ziegler
Interests: Adaptive Management and Conservation, Community Ecology, Mutualisms, Rare Species Population Biology
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282 Castetter Hall
Email: 
shaunziegler@gmail.com

Research Assistant Professor

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Dr. Eva Stricker
Interests: Pulse Dynamics, Facilitation, Biogeochemical Cycling
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3589 Castetter Hall
​Link to Website
​Email: 
evadr@unm.edu

Lab Technician

Ben Gerstner
Purbendra N Yogi
Interests: Colonization, Mutualism, Mycorrhizae, Phytogeography ​
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282 Castetter Hall
Email: 
yogip@unm.edu


Undergraduate Researchers

Emily G.
Emily Smith
she/her
Samanta A.
Shelby S.
Roxanne Marquez
she/they
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