Alice started with the NPS Mojave Desert I&M Network in September 2006.  Before coming to MOJN, Alice served as a Research Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Forest Service-Rocky Mountain Research Station (USFS-RMRS) in Albuquerque, NM.  During her 12 years with USFS-RMRS, Alice studied the roost ecology of forest-dwelling bats in central New Mexico and the effects of exotic plant management and fuels reduction on wildlife in riparian cottonwood forests along the Middle Rio Grande.  She has a Ph.D. in Biology from University of New Mexico, a M.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University.

During her free time, she enjoys gardening, hiking, martial arts, skiing, and spending time with her husband and dog.

Bob received his B.S. in Botany and Plant Pathology from Oregon State University in 1985 with a focus on terrestrial plant ecology.  He went on to graduate work at Northern Arizona University in Freshwater Limnology.  From 1989 till 1998 he was an Aquatic Taxonomist at Oregon State University with an emphasis on high mountain freshwater lake systems.  He worked with the Crater Lake National Park LTEM, as well as working on aquatic inventories for Olympic NP, North Cascades NP, Mount Rainier NP, Joshua Tree NP, and Isle Royal NP, along with other state and federal agencies.  As a result of his building various image databases and doing metadata for these projects, he was contracted to do data management for the newly formed Klamath Network.  He was hired as the permanent Data/GIS Manager for the Klamath Network with the NPS in 2003 and transferred to the Mojave Desert Network in late 2005.

In his spare time, Bob enjoys time with his spouse Vanessa, is a craftsman bowl turner, and works on his collection of Jazz and Blues music.

Dana Robinson received her Bachelors of Anthropology from Towson University in 1985.  A 20 year career in archaeology followed with employment opportunities in New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado as well as Delaware and Texas.  This career included seasonal and temporary appointments with the BLM, NPS, and USFS as well as extended employment in the private sector with cultural resource consultant firms permitted to work on multiple state and federal land jurisdictions, primarily in New Mexico.  Dana was awarded a Masters in Applied Geography in 2008 from New Mexico State University (NMSU), conducting a comparison of remote sensing techniques for the identification of tamarisk in White Sands National Monument (WHSA) in southern New Mexico.  She worked as a Research Assistant creating metadata for legacy spatial data at WHSA and conducting a change analysis of tamarisk over a ten year span, as well as teaching introductory labs in ArcGIS applications a Teachers Assistant in the Geography department at NMSU.  Currently Dana is working as a GIS specialist with the Mojave Desert Inventory and Monitoring Network.

During her spare time, Dana enjoys exploring the natural environment through hiking and camping, as well as watching movies and listening to music.  

Herb is a graduate of Illinois State University where he received a B.S. in philosophy and biological sciences and an M.S. in biological sciences with an emphasis in herpetology.  After completing his education, he has traveled around the world, taught college biology courses, taught field conservation courses in Australia, and worked as an aquarist.  His primary interests lie in the taxonomy and natural history of fish, reptiles, and amphibians.  He is recently engaged and has relocated to Las Vegas from Illinois with his fiancée and a menagerie of pets.

In his spare time he enjoys traveling, reading, watching movies, snorkeling, scuba diving, and spending time with friends and family. 

Jennifer received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from University of California, Berkeley and her MS in Biology from University of Alabama.  There, she studied the effects aquatic hyphomycetes on the growth and survivorship of immature midges.  Her professional career has included working for the Ocean Salmon Project (California Fish and Game), acting as a research assistant for riparian vegetation studies, and teaching many undergrads at Alabama, and, most recently, Texas State University.  Currently, she is a data miner for the Mojave Desert I&M Network at Parashant National Monument.

After many years of working in human and veterinary medicine, Stacy discovered that she no longer had an interest in dealing with medical crises.  She and her husband crossed the United States several times looking for an area where they both could have the lifestyle they desired.  While moving between states, Stacy finally earned her B.S. degree in Environmental Studies from Southern Vermont College in 2004.  A year later, she satisfied the requirements for a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University.  While earning her degrees, she volunteered for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service at various National Wildlife Refuges and with the Maryland “Stream Waders” (part of the Maryland Biological Stream Survey).  Currently, Stacy works as a data miner for the Mojave Desert I&M Network.

Laura is a GIS Intern for the Mojave Network, serving through the Student Conservation Association (SCA) until July 2010. She graduated from The College of William and Mary in 2008 with majors in Chemistry and Anthropology (focus in archaeology).

Jeanne is currently working as a member of the Mojave Desert I&M Network data mining team duty stationed at Mojave National Preserve.  Prior to working for the network, Jeanne worked for the California Department of Fish and Game and the California Native Plant Society doing vegetation mapping in various parts of California.  Jeanne also worked in the NPS Fire Effects Monitoring program where she was duty stationed at Golden Gate National Recreation Area and managed the fire effects programs for GGNRA and six other national parks in central and southern California and Nevada.

Chris is a NPS CESU cooperator with a broad interest in the ecology of freshwater systems.  His primary research interest is how the movement of organisms shapes populations and communities.  He holds a MS from the University of New Hampshire, where he used molecular techniques to infer migration rates of an important planktonic copepod (a.k.a. fish food) among east coast estuaries.  His PhD research at Cornell University demonstrated that movement of adult mayflies and the behavior of mayfly larvae (a.k.a. fish food) among beaver ponds with and without trout resulted in a source-sink population dynamics.  After a first post-doc in Atlanta Georgia, he moved to the University of Idaho for a post-doc analyzing a large radio-telemetry dataset on the movements of adult salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. fish) in the Columbia River basin.  He also studies the migration of introduced American shad in the Columbia River and works with the NPS Upper Columbia Basin Network I&M program as a CESU cooperator and teaches an occasion course.

He spends most of his spare time with his two sons, usually outside.

Geoff started with the NPS Mojave Desert I&M Network in Spring 2009. Before joining the network, he worked as a hydrogeologist in the environmental consulting industry, primarily on the characterization and remediation of contaminated aquifers. Geoff has a Ph.D. in Geosciences from Penn State University, an M.S. in Geophysics from Boise State University, and a B.Sc. in Geophysics from the University of British Columbia.

Geoff enjoys spending time with his family and hiking in the mountains around Las Vegas.