Who's Who in the Throop Lab

2012-2013 Lab Members

Dr. Heather Throop

Associate Professor

B.A., Carleton College
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook
Postdoc, NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow (University of Arizona)

CV (pdf)
Dr. Maria Bravo-Garza

Scientific Research Assistant
B.S., Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
M.S., University of Toronto
Ph.D., University of Toronto

Dr. Jennie DeMarco

Postdoc
B.S., Northern Arizona University
Ph.D., University of Florida

Daniel Hewins

Ph.D. Student
B.S., Rider University
M.S., New Mexico State University

Dan’s Web Page
Brenda Nieto
Ph.D. Student
B.S., University of Texas - El Paso
Jane Smith
Ph.D. Student
B.S., University of Colorado
Janice Easley
M.S. Student
Luis Duarte
Undergraduate Student
RISE Program
Natalie Gomez
Undergraduate Student 		turn in a photo before you turn into a pumpkin
Melanie Peterson
HHMI undergraduate research scholar
NSF REU student
Katie Schwettmann
Undergraduate Student 		turn in a photo before you turn into a pumpkin
Kendra Slown
Undergraduate Student
Dr. Walt Whitford
Resident Desert Guru
NMSU Emeritus Professor
Kaibab and Chesapeake Throop
Lab Bosses (on the rare occasions that they’re awake)

Research interest: behavioral ecology of Archilochus alexandri

Some of Our Lab Alums

Dr. Hanna Lee
Lab Alum
Postdoc 2009-2011

Now at National Center for Atmospheric Research

Dr. Kathy Whiteman
Ph.D. 2010

now Executive Director, Gila Conservation Education Center
Majd Abu-Salem
Lab Alum
M.S. 2011
Lisa Ebbs
Lab Alum
NMSU, BS 2009
now MS student at
University of Alaska-Anchorage

Jornada LTER-REU (2007)
HHMI Research Scholar (2007-2009)

Jesús Adrian Perez
Lab Alum
NMSU, BS 2009

Now MS student, Experimental Statistics, NMSU

Are you an unlisted lab alum? Send us a current photo and your whereabouts and we’ll add you to the list!

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