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WHO WE ARE
Principal Investigator
Dr. Elizabeth La Rue
Liz 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.
Graduate Students
Anna Downing
Anna is an EEB PhD candidate using UAVs and remote sensing to study the structural features of southwest wildlife habitat, including post-wildfire restoration.
Karen Stopani
Karen is an incoming EEB PhD student. She is studying dryland plant and biocrust communities across spatial scales in the Chihuahuan Desert.
Eli Nyawunu
Eli is a Geological Sciences PhD student using remote sensing and geoAI to monitor rangeland plant communities.
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