ASU Natural History Collections

Faculty:

Elderly gentleman wearing striped shirt in front of an old computer
DJP in 2012 - with latest in computer technology

Recent and current graduate students:

  • Kristen Countryman, MS
  • Brittany Burgard, MS
  • Mary LaGuardia, MS
  • Gabriel Garcia, MS
  • Daniel Moses, MS
  • Peter Price, PhD
  • Soon Flynn, PhD
  • Anthony Motta - Nest Composition and Architecture of the Curve-billed Thrasher (MS 2022).
  • Bryce Sutter - Structural Responses of Bouteloua eriopoda to Changes in Annual Precipitation:Interactive Effects of Amount and Duration (MS 2022).
  • Zach Berry - Flora of the Phoenix Zoo (MS 2020).
  • Cole Larson-Whittaker -  Flora of the Verde River (MS 2020)
  • Alison Willis - Systematics of Echinomastus erectocentrus var. acunensis (MS 2019).
  • JP Solves - FLora of Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (MS 2020)
  • Albatool Albediwi - Digitization of herbaria in Saudi Arabia (MS 2017).
  • Lane Butler – Ecological effects of stream flow permanence on butterfly and plant communities of Sonoran Desert streams (MS May 2015).
  • Kara Baron – Flora of the Cave Creek Regional Park and studies of reestablishment of Arizona Upland Plant communities after fire disturbance (MS 2018).
  • Jacqueline Betsch – Plant community composition along the historic Verde River irrigation System (MS December 2010).
  • Frankie Coburn – Flora of the Upper Verde River, Yavapai County, Arizona (MS Dec 2015)
  • Darin Jenke – The Phoenix Four Rivers flora, Maricopa County, Arizona (MS May 2011)
  • Bethany Lund –The vascular flora of the Hummingbird Springs Wilderness, Maricopa County, Arizona. (MS November 2008). 
  • Robert Madera – Screwbean mesquite (Prosopis pubescens) die-off: Population status at restored and unrestored sites in the Lower Colorado River watershed (MS May 2016).
  • Doug Newton – Vascular flora of the Eagletail Mountain region, La Paz-Yuma Counties, Arizona (MS Dec 2010)
  • Danika Setaro – Temperature Effects on Germination in Southwest Riparian Zones Across an Aridity Gradient (MS Dec 2016).
  • Dustin Wolkis - Plant ecology of arid-land wetlands; a watershed moment for ciénega conservation (MS May 2016).
  • Tyna Yost - Amsonia kearneyana (Apocynaceae) Kearney’s Blue Star: new insights to inform recovery.  (MS December 2015).

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