Meet the WySCI Board & Staff
WySCI Personnel
WySCI Director: Bethann Garramon Merkle - Wyoming Migration Initiative, Department of Zoology & Physiology
WySCI Board
The WySCI board is comprised of the following (* = WySCI cofounders):
- Annie Bergman - WY INBRE
- *Bethann Garramon Merkle - WySCI Director | Department of Zoology & Physiology, UW Biodiversity Institute
- *Brandon Gellis - UW Visual Arts, Art & Art History Department
- *Brian Barber - Biodiversity Institute
- *David Keto - UW Extension
- Drew Bennett - Haub School of Environment & Natural Resources
- Emily Reed - UW Wyoming Migration Initiative
- *Karen Vaughan - Ecosystem Science and Management Departmnet, College of Ag & Natural Resources
- *Kristen Landreville - Communication & Journalism Department
- Nichole Lumadue - WY EPSCoR
- *Shawna McBride - Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium
WySCI founders who have moved on to awesome work elsewhere:
- Teddi Freedman - Co-founded WySCI while Director of the K-14 Project, College of Engineering and Applied Science
- Rachel Edie - Co-founded WySCI while Graduate Student Network co-founder and president
- Emilene Ostlind - Co-founded WySCI. Haub School/Ruckelshaus Institute, Western Confluence magazine
- Emily Vercoe - Co-founded WySCI while WY EPSCoR Education, Outreach, Diversity Coordinator
- Jamie Crait - Co-founded WySCI; Wyoming Research Scholars Program, UWyo Science Initiative, Life Sciences Program
- Karlee Provenza - Co-founded WySCI while a PhD candidate in Psychology