The Team
Leadership
Doug Eifler
Chief Curiosity Officer
Maria Eifler
Chief of Operations and Organization
Research Associates
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.
Research Assistants
Dahtiya Stanley
Dahtiya Stanley is a freshman 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.
Maliya Clark
Alicia Pham
Alicia Pham is a freshman 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.
Maddox Magathan
The University of Kansas
Scientific Advisory Board
Rebecca Upton
Colgate University
Lulu (María) de Lourdes Ruiz-Gómez
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Kelly Diamond
Rhodes College
Hayden Hedman
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
Mia Phillips
Dartmouth College
Drew Dittmer
Information Technology
Nathan Dodson
Nathan is an MBA and Computer Science student from the University of Kansas. Currently, he is working on finishing school and pursuing a career in technical business architecture, data management, and technical business transformation.
He works with Erell in managing and maintaining the website and overall tech stack used by the team!