Meet our team
Andrew Salywon, PH.D.
植物标本馆馆长和研究植物学家
Email: asalywon@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8107
Botanical inventories, endemic, 亚利桑那州和索诺兰沙漠的珍稀濒危植物, molecular ecology, 干旱地区的新作物开发, 利用传统和分子数据进行植物系统学研究
Aryn Musgrave, M.S.
GIS Manager
Email: amusgrave@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.423.7010
As part of the Research, Conservation, and Collections team, 我管理企业地理信息系统，并监督BG大游的生活收集植物的测绘. 除了绘制BG大游官网的生活收藏品, 我还通过合作研究项目和为出版物提供地图和空间分析来支持该部门.
Challie Facemire, Ph.D.
亚利桑那州中央保护联盟项目主任
Email: cfacemire@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8167
Collaborative conservation, 法律和政策对大规模土地管理的影响, 跨境生态系统和生物多样性保护与管理.
Dan F. Koepke, M.S.
Research Technician
Email: dkoepke@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.941.1225
Plant-water relations, plant hydraulic systems, 形态学和生理学研究, 组织学与河岸恢复
Joe Mcauliffe, PH.D.
Director Emeritus & Senior Research Scientist
Email: jmcauliffe@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8105
干旱和半干旱环境中的土壤-植被关系, 半干旱草地生态保护, 长寿命克隆灌木的发展
Kevin R. Hultine, Ph.D.
Director of Research
Email: khultine@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8195
Water relations, photosynthesis and thermal tolerance of plants in arid and semi-arid regions; desert riparian plant ecology and conservation; population dynamics of desert shrubs,trees and cactus species.
Kim Pegram, Ph.D.
传粉者保护和研究项目主任
Email: kpegram@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8135
蝴蝶生态与保护, monarch conservation, plant-insect interactions, 蝴蝶和传粉者科学推广，鼓励保护行动.
Kimberlie McCue, PH.D.
Chief Science Officer
Email: kmccue@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8137
稀有植物的群体生态学与遗传学, 原位和非原位种子库动态, invasive species, 保育科学推广及教育
Kristen Kindl
生活收藏品协调员/CPS项目经理
Email: kkindl@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.2078
Databasing and accessioning the Garden’s Living Collections; production and placement of plant identification labels
Natalie Melkonoff, B.S.
植物和昆虫生态项目协调员
Email: nmelkonoff@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.941-3516
Plant-insect interactions, monarch conservation, native plant propagation, plant physiology, 栖息地恢复和科学推广
Raul Puente-Martinez, M.S.
生活收藏品馆长，研究植物学家
Email: rpuente@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8110
Systematics of Opuntieae (Cactaceae)，仙人掌的杂交，植物区系，在园林绿化中使用本地和低用水量的植物
Shannon D. Fehlberg, Ph.D.
Dorrance 家庭基金会保育生物学家
Email: sfehlberg@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8143
Evolution and population genetics and genomics of rare plants and their relatives; distribution and historical biogeography; factors affecting genetic and species diversity; polyploidy and hybridization
Steven A. Blackwell, B.S.
保育收藏经理
Email: sblackwell@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8175
开发珍稀植物的繁殖技术和协议, 珍稀植物种子萌发及活力研究, 栖息地恢复和物种重新引入
Wendy C. Hodgson, M.S
Herbarium Curator Emerita
Senior Research Botanist
Email: whodgson@ss-word.com
Phone: 480.481.8108
美国西南部的植物区系，尤其是大峡谷地区， Cactaceae and Agavaceae systematics, ethnobotany of Sonoran Desert, invasive species, 西南地区稀有植物的分类学