Meet the Team
Leadership
Interim Assistant Director | Capacity Building & Terrestrial Research
Academic interests:
• Tropical Ecology
• Community Ecology
• Biodiversity Science
Research, Teaching and Extension Faculty
Principal Investigator | Marine Research
Academic interests:
• Distributed Acoustic Sensing
• Sound propagation
• Arctic & sub-Arctic baleen whales
Principal Investigator | Terrestrial Research
Academic interests:
• Tropical ecology
• Computational bioacoustics
• Primate ecology and conservation
Principal Investigator | Capacity Building & Participatory Science
Academic interests:
• Community-based participatory methods
• Social-ecological monitoring
• Primate health and behavior
Principal Investigator | Terrestrial Research
Academic interests:
• Terrestrial monitoring
• Vocal communication
• Capacity building
Principal Investigator | Computational Bioacoustics
Academic interests:
• Computational bioacoustics
• AI-powered sound ID
• Community science
Principal Investigator | Marine Research
Principal Investigator | Terrestrial Research
Academic interests:
• Quantitative ecology
• Community ecology
• Large-scale terrestrial monitoring
Administration
Deborah Cipolla-DennisProject Management & Administration
- Janelle L. Hanson
Administrative Assistant
- Ed Moore
Field Operation and Procurement Manager
- Chris Pelkie
Lead Data Management
Staff
- Philip Blackman
Raven Team Member, Software Developer
- Patrick T. Chaopricha
Team Member Swift Project
- Russ Charif
Team member, Capacity Building
- Cameron Dunn
Team Member, Capacity Building & Digital Engagement
- Bobbi Estabrook
Team Member Elephant Listening Project
- Ben Gottesman, Ph.D.
Capacity Building Co-lead
- Derek Jaskula
Team Member Marine Field Operations
- Raymond Mack
Team Member Rockhopper/Robin
- Isabella Marshall
Research Engineer
- Michael Pitzrick
Team Member Raven Pro
- Dimitri Ponirakis
Team Member Raven-X/Noise Analytics
- Ashakur Rahaman
Lead Engagement Projects
- Kate Reed
Team Member, Raven Workbench
- Daniel Salisbury
Team Member Marine Projects
- Chris Tessaglia-Hymes
Team Member Marine Field Operations
- Ben Thomas
Lead Raven Pro Project
- Sophie Trowbridge, DVM
Team Member Elephant Listening Project
- Maria Vasilkin
Software Engineer
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Meghan A. Beatty, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Terrestrial Ecology
- Rebecca Cohen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Ecology
- Spencer R. Keyser, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Terrestrial Ecology
- Sharon Martinson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Terrestrial Ecology
- Islamiat Abidemi Raji, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Vijay Ramesh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Terrestrial Ecology
- Eric R. Snyder, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Research
- Irina Tolkova, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
- Andrea Bonilla
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
- Caleb Centanni
Graduate Student, Terrestrial Ecology
- Matthew Duggan
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
- Heather “Hopper” Galloway
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
- Marissa Garcia
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
- Karianne Kapfer
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
- Marisol Valverde Montellano
Graduate Student, Freshwater Ecology
- Britney Pepper
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
Affiliated Team Members
- Valeria Aspinall
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
- Isha Bopardikar
Marine Ecology
- Marie-Ève Clark
Graduate Student, Marine Ecology
- Ivonne Kienast
Terrestrial Ecology
- Kristen Morrow
Graduate Student, Terrestrial Ecology
- Erin Netoskie
Graduate Student, Terrestrial Ecology
- Alasdair Owens
Graduate Student, Terrestrial Ecology
- Luke F. Quarles
Graduate Student, Terrestrial Ecology
- Rylie Strasbaugh
Graduate Student, Terrestrial Ecology
Alumni
Bruce A. Bobier, Ph.D.
Kristin Brunk, Ph.D.
Capt. Fred Channell
Chris Clark, Ph.D.
Isla Keesje Davidson, Ph.D.
Dave Doxey
Selene Fregosi, Ph.D.
Michelle Fournet, Ph.D.
Linda Harris
Dean Hawthorne, Ph.D.
Allison S. Injaian, Ph.D.
Sara Keen, Ph.D.
Tish Klein
Jim Lowe
Ben Mirin, Ph.D.
Dawn Parry, Ph.D.
Mickey Pardo, Ph.D.
Xavier Raick, Ph.D.
Laurel B. Symes, Ph.D.
Yu Shiu, Ph.D.
Anahita Verahrami
Sha Wang
Peter Wrege, Ph.D.