People
AMANDA KOLTZ
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
KATIE HARRIS
Postdoctoral Scholar
Katie is an ecological entomologist who earned her PhD from the University of Missouri in 2023. She is interested in examining how environmental changes influence dung beetles and their ecosystem services. When she isn’t wrangling dung beetles, Katie enjoys spending time with her exotic pets and eating sushi.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Katie is an ecological entomologist who earned her PhD from the University of Missouri in 2023. She is interested in examining how environmental changes influence dung beetles and their ecosystem services. When she isn’t wrangling dung beetles, Katie enjoys spending time with her exotic pets and eating sushi.
NEVO SAGI
BARD Postdoctoral Fellow
Nevo is fascinated by the workings of ecosystems and devote my research to unraveling their complexities. His work integrates concepts and methods from both community and ecosystem ecology, with a particular focus on zoogeochemistry—the role of animals in biogeochemical cycles under varying environmental conditions. He is currently investigating how interactions between large herbivores and soil fauna influence carbon dynamics along a broad aridity gradient across Texas rangelands. This research aims to uncover the mechanisms driving these processes and to understand their implications for carbon cycling and ecosystem health in a changing climate.
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BARD Postdoctoral Fellow
Nevo is fascinated by the workings of ecosystems and devote my research to unraveling their complexities. His work integrates concepts and methods from both community and ecosystem ecology, with a particular focus on zoogeochemistry—the role of animals in biogeochemical cycles under varying environmental conditions. He is currently investigating how interactions between large herbivores and soil fauna influence carbon dynamics along a broad aridity gradient across Texas rangelands. This research aims to uncover the mechanisms driving these processes and to understand their implications for carbon cycling and ecosystem health in a changing climate.
ResearchGate profile
Google Scholar
JULIA BERLINER
PhD student
Julia earned her MS in Entomology at the University of Georgia, where she studied how insect herbivores and predators respond to soil nutrient availability depending on their diet breadth. She is fascinated by how biogeochemical cycles ubiquitously shape ecosystems by governing community composition and trophic interactions. Julia is thrilled to be part of a lab group curious about how ecosystem functions not only depend on nutrient availability, but also how they shape nutrient cycling in return. She feels so lucky to study how the conservation of migratory shorebirds may depend on how human activities mediate the nutritional quality and community composition of shorebirds' invertebrate prey.
PhD student
Julia earned her MS in Entomology at the University of Georgia, where she studied how insect herbivores and predators respond to soil nutrient availability depending on their diet breadth. She is fascinated by how biogeochemical cycles ubiquitously shape ecosystems by governing community composition and trophic interactions. Julia is thrilled to be part of a lab group curious about how ecosystem functions not only depend on nutrient availability, but also how they shape nutrient cycling in return. She feels so lucky to study how the conservation of migratory shorebirds may depend on how human activities mediate the nutritional quality and community composition of shorebirds' invertebrate prey.
ANNIE CRESS
PhD student
PhD student
KRISTY TAN
PhD student
Kristy is a conservation ecologist interested in resilience to climate change and other anthropogenic stressors.
PhD student
Kristy is a conservation ecologist interested in resilience to climate change and other anthropogenic stressors.
