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Contact Us: MWFB Staff

The MWFB is managed by a Curator, Andrew Engilis, Jr. and Collections Manager, Irene E. Engilis. The museum employees eight research specialists, four student assistants, and multiple student interns. Please address all inquiries to our collections manager, at mwfb@ucdavis.edu or (530) 754-8813.

NOTE: All e-mail addresses are @ucdavis.edu unless otherwise specified.

	Andrew Engilis, Jr. CURATOR Phone: (530) 752-0364 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: aengilisjr@ Curriculum Vitae
Andy Engilis, Jr. studying Hawaiian Ducks at the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge in Oahu, Hawai'i.

 

	Irene E. Engilis COLLECTIONS MANAGER Phone: (530) 754-8813 x1 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: ieengilis@
Irene E. Engilis, preparing a bird specimen collected during bioinventory surveys at Los Banos Creek State Recreation Area, Merced County, California.

 

	Ron Cole CURATOR EMERITUS Phone: (530) 754-8813 x3 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: recole@
Ron Cole on safari in Northern Tanzania.

 

	Melanie Truan, PhD POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER Phone: (530) 754-4975 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: mltruan@
Melanie Truan handling a horned lizard while conducting mammal inventories in eastern Washington.

 

	Alan T. Hitch ASSISTANT CURATOR Phone: (530) 752-0735 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: athitch@ Curriculum Vitae
Alan Hitch holding an Austral Thrush while conducting vertebrate inventories in Chile.

 

	John Trochet, MD FIELD ORNITHOLOGIST Phone: (530) 754-8813 x3 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: jtrochet@
John Trochet recording GPS readings while collecting birds in Tahoe National Forest, California.

	Tabatha Yang, MS Education and Outreach Coordinator Phone: (530) 754-4975 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: tabyang@
The MWFB welcomes Tabatha as our new Education and Outreach Coordinator!

	Mana Hattori, MS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Phone: (530) 754-8813 x3 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: mhattori@
Mana Hattori determining age, sex and weight of a Deer Mouse while conducting small mammal surveys in eastern Washington.

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Student Assistants

	Bobby Walsh GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER PhD Candidate, Ecology Graduate Group Phone: (530) 754-8813 x3 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail: rgwalsh@
Bobby Walsh teaches undergraduates the finer points of bird identification using MWFB bird specimens. Bobby is conducting research on birds in California's riparian systems.

 

	Irvin Huang STUDENT ASSISTANT Senior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology Phone: (530) 754-8813 x3 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail:jphuang@

 

	Cassy Gardner STUDENT ASSISTANT Junior, Biological Systems Engineering Phone: (530) 754-8813 x3 Fax: (530) 752-4154 E-mail:ckgardner@

 

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Interns and Volunteers

Nicholas Brinton

Specimen Preparator Intern
Second Baccalaureate, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

JoannaLyn Belison

Science Education Outreach Program Intern
Junior, Civil Engineering

Erika Brown

Specimen Preparator Intern
Junior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

German Duran

Science Education Outreach Program Intern
Senior, Mechanical Engineering

Ellen Engilis

Research Assistant Intern
Junior, Anthropology

Leslie Hill

Wild Campus Intern, Songbird Team
Senior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Zachary McDonald

Wild Campus Intern, Songbird Team
Sophomore, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Jennifer McKenzie

Specimen Curatorial Intern
Junior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Kaitlyn Porter

Science Education Outreach Program Intern
Senior, Landscape Architecture

Jared Robinson

Specimen Preparator Intern
Senior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Michelle Thomas

Wild Campus Intern, Songbird Team
Junior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Kelsey Wiggins

Specimen Curatorial Intern
Junior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Seth Wong

Specimen Preparation Intern
Senior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Katherine Wright

Science Education Outreach Program Intern
Senior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Catherine Yasuda

Specimen Curatorial and Preparator Intern
Senior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Adrian Ye

Wild Campus Intern, Songbird Team Leader
Senior, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Jonathan Widdicombe, PhD

UC Davis Professor, Physiology and Membrane Biology; MWFB Field Biologist Volunteer

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This website was made possible by a Facilities and Database Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation.
| Last updated: February 15, 2012
URL: http://mwfb.ucdavis.edu

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