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