People of PRI

Cariad Williams, paleontology PhD student

Oct 25, 2019 8:00 am

Paul Marcum with Carex decomposita at Round Pond Swamp in Pope County, Illinois.

Kristopher Maxson, large river fisheries ecologist

Aug 13, 2020 8:00 am

Kevin Cummings, INHS mollusk collection curator

Apr 29, 2019 9:00 am

Tamira Brennan holds a trowell in the field

Sam Heads, PRI Center for Paleontology director and curator

Aug 16, 2019 12:00 pm

Paula Porubcan, coordinator Northern Illinois Field Station, and Paula Bryant, archaeological technician

Apr 22, 2020 12:00 pm

Auriel Fournier, director of Forbes Biological Station

Jun 13, 2019 8:00 am

Erica Hernandez, INHS graduate student

Oct 25, 2019 9:00 am

Isabelle Lulewicz, zooarchaeologist

Mar 29, 2021 11:00 am

Michael Aiuvalasit, environmental archaeologist

Aug 23, 2019 1:15 pm

Max Allen emerging from a brown bear den in Slovenia.

Maximilian Allen, assistant research scientist

Apr 28, 2020 1:00 pm

Elizabeth Watts Malouchos, research archaeologist

Oct 19, 2021 12:30 pm

Elizabeth Watts Malouchos recently answered some questions about her career in archaeology, commonly-held misconceptions about archaeology, and her advice for those just starting out in the field.

Aaron Yetter, waterfowl ecologist

Apr 16, 2020 10:00 am

Emily Szott, large river fisheries ecologist

Jul 9, 2020 9:00 am

Carl Carman, research specialist

Nov 5, 2019 7:00 am

Bob McCullough, assistant director for special projects at ISAS

Aug 8, 2019 9:30 am

John Beardsley prepares to sample the Pecatonica River, Stephenson County, Illinois for the Benchmark Sediment Monitoring network.

John Beardsley, research field specialist

May 27, 2021 8:15 am

Zachary Witzel, large river fisheries ecologist

Oct 9, 2020 8:00 am

Ed DeWalt, aquatic entomologist

Jul 29, 2020 8:00 am

Sara Johnson, INHS graduate student

Oct 24, 2019 9:00 am

Tim Pauketat: Illinois State Archaeologist

Mar 25, 2019 3:15 pm

Dominique Turney, aquatic nuisance species specialist

Dec 13, 2019 11:15 am

Chelsea Kross, quantitative ecologist

Jun 2, 2020 9:00 am

Jordyn Chace in the Mark Davis Lab in NRES and the Illinois Bat Conservation Program

Jordyn Chace, graduate student

Oct 27, 2021 8:00 am

Jordyn Chace says she has always wanted to be a conservation biologist, even before she knew that it was a real career. Now she's a bat genomicist with the Illinois Natural History Survey.

Stephanie Brownstein, research engineer

Jul 6, 2021 8:00 am

Jonathan Freiman: HR business partner

Mar 15, 2019 11:00 am

Jehnsen Lebsock, large river fisheries ecologist

Aug 28, 2020 8:00 am

Liz Miernicki, wetland soils specialist

Jun 13, 2020 9:15 am

Angie Coy, coordinator of stakeholder engagement

Jul 2, 2021 8:00 am

Claire Johnson, avian ecologist

Jun 3, 2021 8:00 am

Allison Bryant, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) specialist

Apr 30, 2021 8:00 am

Hillary Glandon, postdoctoral researcher

May 19, 2021 9:00 am

Lynsey Harper, INHS postdoctoral research associate

Lynsey Harper, eDNA postdoctoral research associate

Oct 17, 2019 8:00 am

Anthony Porreca, assistant director of Kaskaskia Biological Station

Nov 15, 2019 11:15 am

Robin Mattheus, coastal geologist

May 26, 2020 10:00 am

Hayden Hedman, eco-epidemiology postdoctoral researcher

Jan 8, 2020 4:15 pm

Jeff Stein, fisheries ecologist

Aug 13, 2019 12:00 pm

Kristen Ragusa, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) field scientist

Mar 28, 2021 12:15 pm

Tara Jagadeesh, Coastal Studies Specialist

May 17, 2021 8:00 am

Laura Keefer, Illinois State Hydrologist

Oct 15, 2019 8:00 am

Caleb Bohus, 2022 Potter intern

Jul 12, 2022 8:00 am

Caleb Bohus is a member of the first cohort of five Potter interns at the Prairie Research Institute (PRI). The Paul Edwin Potter Internships. Bohus, a junior at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, has been working with Joe Devera, a senior paleontologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) and the Smithsonian on a paleontologcial project.