Malik Elkouby
Category:
Title:
Research Assistant
E-Mail:
melkouby@ucsb.edu
About:
Malik works at CCBER as part of the USDA Conservation Innovation Grant. He is working on testing novel automated wildlife camera technology for performance, as well as developing protocols for deployment. He is interested in researching animal behavior and species interactions.
Lauren Weichert
Category:
Title:
Restoration Assistant
E-Mail:
weichert@ccber.ucsb.edu
About:
Lauren began working for CCBER as a student worker at the Manzanita Vernal Pools and NCOS in spring of 2018. After graduating from UCSB in 2018 with a BS in Environmental Studies, she became a restoration assistant spending most of her time at NCOS.
Zach Brown
Category:
Title:
Collection Assistant
About:
Zach Brown initially began volunteering at CCBER in the summer of 2018. Zach began his work pinning and sorting North Campus Open Space (NCOS) arthropods. He now works on curating, imaging, and data-basing the UCSB Invertebrate Zoology Collection. Zach also has an independent project identifying ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) from historical student collections. Zach's interests lie in Entomology and Plant Ecology.
Elaine Tan
Category:
Title:
Collection Affiliate
E-Mail:
elntan.u@gmail.com
About:
Elaine has volunteered and worked at CCBER since her first year as an undergraduate at UCSB in 2014, starting out on the restoration side of things and moving over to the media, monitoring, and collections side. She has graduated and now works on curating, imaging, and databasing the UCSB Invertebrate Zoology Collection at CCBER. She is also assisting in sorting and identifying Formicidae (ant) and Apoidea (bee) specimens, and helping out with monitoring efforts. Her interests lie in natural history illustration and birding around Santa Barbara.
Website:
Carina Motta
Category:
Title:
Undergraduate Research Assistant
E-Mail:
carina_motta@umail.ucsb.edu
About:
Carina is currently working on the Suaeda project where she is investigating several putative species from Baja California proposed by Wayne Ferren. While not doing homework or working at CCBER, Carina spends her time birding, reading, tending to her garden, and hanging out with her cat. Carina is interested in community ecology and plant-animal interactions, especially those that include birds. She plans on pursuing a PhD after graduating from UCSB.
Rachel Behm
Category:
Title:
Graduate Student
E-Mail:
behmrachel@yahoo.com
About:
Rachel is a recent graduate of UCSB and she is interested in Diptera systematics. She identifies arthropods from the North Campus Open Space project as well as teaches others how to identify arthropods using custom-made field guides. She also is in the process if recurating, imaging and databasing the UCSB Invertebrate Zoology collection.
Website:
Steven Ortega
Beau Tindall
Ryan Lippitt
Category:
Title:
Sierra Madre & San Joaquin Restoration Manager, Assistant NCOS Restoration Manager
E-Mail:
rlippitt@ccber.ucsb.edu
Phone:
(805) 893-4211
About:
Ryan has been working with CCBER restoration since 2008 in various roles. He currently manages the San Joaquin and Sierra Madre habitat restoration projects.
