WHO WE ARE
Principal Investigator
Dr. Elizabeth La Rue
Liz (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at UTEP (ealarue@utep.edu). She earned her PhD at Purdue University in 2017. Her current focus is on species distributions and ecosystem structure -function relationships in plant communities and wildlife habitat.
Students
Anna Downing
Anna (she/her) is an EEB PhD candidate using UAVs and remote sensing to study the structural features of southwest wildlife habitat, including post-wildfire restoration.
Angie Gutierrez
Angie is a ROADS Postbac using lidar to understand the factors impacting dryland plant communities.
Eli Nyawunu
Eli is a Geological Sciences PhD and CIElOG Fellow using remote sensing and geoAI to monitor rangeland and agricultural communities.
Grace Lee
Grace is a COURI undergrad helping explore wildlife behavior on the post-wildfire forest restoration study.
Karen Stopani
Karen is studying dryland plant and biocrust communities across spatial scales.