We are located at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.
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Sonia is the head of our research program on monarch parasites. She is an assistant professor at the Odum School of Ecology at UGA. She has been studying monarchs and their parasites for the past 10 years. |
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Becky is a post-doc in the Altizer lab. She manages the website and public relations. She is also using the MonarchHealth data set to look at the relationship between local breeding densities of monarchs and parasite infection rates. |
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Samantha Burton Samantha is a senior in the undergraduate program in the Odum School of Ecology at UGA and has been part of the MonarchHealth team since spring 2007. She coordinates our volunteers, manages the database, answers your emails, and processes samples. |
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Andy is a PhD student at UGA in the Wildlife Ecology and Management Program in the Warnell Forestry School. He designed the website and contributes to numerous papers on OE. |
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Jaap is a former post-doc in the Altizer lab and is now an assistant professor at Emory University. He also studies OE parasites and contributes to the MonarchHealth project. |
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Donna Gast Donna is a 7th grade teacher at Oconee Middle School in Watkinsville, GA. She is our educational consultant and helps with all of our classroom resources and outreach. |
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Margeaux Maerz Margeaux is a sophomore in the undergraduate program in the Odum School of Ecology at UGA and helps with processing of samples, data entry, and educational outreach. |
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JR McMillan JR is a senior in the undergraduate program in the Odum School of Ecology at UGA and helps in processing of samples. |