Meet the Team
Leadership
Holger Klinck, Ph.D.
Director
Laurel B. Symes, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Deborah Cipolla-Dennis
Program Manager
Administration
Linda Harris
Financial Analyst, Grant and Contract Specialist
Tish Klein
Admin Assistant
Ed Moore
Field Operation and Procurement Manager
Principal Investigators
Russ Charif
Senior Bioacoustician
Chris Clark, Ph.D.
Visiting Senior Scientist
Danielle Harris, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar
Peter Dugan, Ph.D.
HPC & CI Researcher
Dean Hawthorne, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Aaron Rice, Ph.D.
Principal Ecologist
Yu Shiu, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Peter Wrege, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate and ELP Director
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dena J. Clink, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Wendy M. Erb, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Michelle Fournet, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniela Hedwig, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Allison S. Injaian, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shyam Madhusudhana, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Selene Fregosi
Ph.D. Student
Sara Keen
Ph.D. Student
Ben Mirin
Graduate Student
Dawn Parry
Ph.D. Student
Engineers and Programmers
Rob Koch
Hardware Engineer
Raymond Mack
Research Engineer
Chris Pelkie
Application Systems Analyst
Dimitri Ponirakis
Applications Programmer
Ben Thomas
Software Developer
David Winiarski
Software/Firmware Developer
John Zollweg, Ph.D.
Software Developer
Research Support
Bobbi Estabrook
Research Analyst
Kristin Hodge
Research Analyst
Jim Lowe
Temporary Service Technician
Michael Pitzrick
Research Support Specialist
Ashakur Rahaman
Research Analyst
Liz Rowland
Research Support Specialist
Daniel Salisbury
Research Analyst
Anahita Verahrami
Research Assistant
Field Operations
Capt. Fred Channell
Field Research Team Leader
R/V Jaeger
Dave Doxey
Field Operations Specialist
Derek Jaskula
Field Research Specialist & First Mate
Chris Tessaglia-Hymes
Field Applications Engineer
Volunteers
Isha Bopardikar
Volunteer
Lauren Jacobsen, DVM
Volunteer
Karolin Klinck
Volunteer