Welcome to my site.  Click here to see an image of my introductory biology students students 

Click here and here  to read about and see our transcontinential research trip put together by my students!

Click here to read about how to joing next year's (2009) trip!

Description of images (from left to right):  Me handling a Cholla thorn at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR) near Socorro, NM.  View from Los Pinos cave onto McKenzie Flats in the heart of SNWR.  The image second from the right, is of my research students this during the summer of 2007 (from left to right), Rachel Ward, Patrick Granneman and Hana Khidir.  They began to characterize the fungi within several species of desert grasses.  The next image (seond from the right) is of my research students this summer (2008; Doug Eudy, Hana Khidir, and Kelsey Vaughn) after they visited a cave near Mapimi, Mexico.  The last image on the right is of blue grama "fairy rings" out in the desert of new Mexico.  This NSF-funded research examined the geographic patterns of plant and fecal endophytes is described in the links above.