Rebecca Bixby

Living out a dream since fourth grade science class, Becky meets Buttercup, a 3-toed sloth.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Research Associate, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Becky received a BA in Biology from Albion College (Michigan), a MS from the University of Cincinnati, and a PhD in Natural Resources from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Becky did her post-doctoral work at the Institute of Ecology (now Odum School of Ecology) at the University of Georgia.
Research Associate, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Becky received a BA in Biology from Albion College (Michigan), a MS from the University of Cincinnati, and a PhD in Natural Resources from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Becky did her post-doctoral work at the Institute of Ecology (now Odum School of Ecology) at the University of Georgia.
Ayesha Burdett

Ayesha doing field work in February. Brr.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Ayesha has been involved in the Rio Grande food web work with the Bixby group and Turner labs. She specializes in invertebrate ecology and stable isotopes. As a native Australian, she has been teaching us colorful Aussie phrases like "chinwag."
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Ayesha has been involved in the Rio Grande food web work with the Bixby group and Turner labs. She specializes in invertebrate ecology and stable isotopes. As a native Australian, she has been teaching us colorful Aussie phrases like "chinwag."
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Kayla Sayre

Undergraduate researcher
Describing a new species of Amphipleura from the Neotropics.
Summer Woods-Tunney

Undergraduate researcher
Working on resource utilization by the Rio Grande silvery minnow and also doing her honor's thesis comparing artificial and natural habitats for the silvery minnow
Lab Alumni
Nathan Lopez-Brody

Nathan measuring flow at the Alameda Bridge.
Undergraduate researcher
Middle Rio Grande foodwebs. Nathan's claims to fame include his ability to pull people of hip-deep mud and his love of mint.
Middle Rio Grande foodwebs. Nathan's claims to fame include his ability to pull people of hip-deep mud and his love of mint.
Jessica Esquibel

We need smaller waders!
Undergraduate researcher
Middle Rio Grande foodwebs and a research project looking at the effects of elevated nitrate in wetlands.
Middle Rio Grande foodwebs and a research project looking at the effects of elevated nitrate in wetlands.
David Banks-Richardson

Undergraduate researcher
UnO (Undergraduate Opportunities) program, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Preliminary reconstruction of the environmental history of Bitter Lake using sediment cores.
UnO (Undergraduate Opportunities) program, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Preliminary reconstruction of the environmental history of Bitter Lake using sediment cores.