Meet the Team
Leadership
Doug Eifler
Maria Eifler
Research Team
Kaera Utsumi
Kaera, aka the little menace, continues to be involved in upcoming field projects. She completed her masters degree at Kansas University where she studied social networks in lizard populations. She is currently writing up the manuscripts from this work while eating delicious food and deciding what her next steps will be.
Dahtiya Stanley
Dahtiya Stanley is a sophomore at Haskell Indian Nations University, majoring in environmental science. She is working with the Lizard Task Force on the interactions between introduced and native lizard species.
Alicia Pham
Alicia Pham is a sophomore at the University of Kansas where she currently studies ecology & evolutionary biology and geology. When she isn't working with the Lizard Task Force to save the world, she can be found reading, weightlifting, or playing video games.
Scientific Advisory Board
Kelly Diamond
Rhodes College
Drew Dittmer
Independent Researcher; Johnny Morris Institute of Fisheries, Wetlands, & Aquatic Systems, University of Missouri
Mia Phillips
Post-doctoral Research Associate – Bick Lab, UW Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lulu (María) de Lourdes Ruiz-Gómez
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Rebecca Upton
Colgate University
Vicky Zero
Senior Biologist, Western EcoSystems Technology (WEST)
Information Technology
Nathan Dodson
Nathan is an MBA and Computer Science student from the University of Kansas. After graduating from KU, he is now working for a local Kansas City distributor with a focus in infrastructure, technical business architecture, data management, and technical business transformation.
He works with Erell in managing and maintaining this website, and with the overall tech stack used by the team.