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E-RISE Team
The leadership, core teams, and personnel supporting the Guam NSF EPSCoR E-RISE project.
E-RISE Team
Leadership
Bastian Bentlage, Ph.D.
Principal investigator
Michael L. Chan, Ed.D.
Co-Principal investigator
Austin Shelton III, Ph.D.
Co-Principal investigator
Robert M. Lasley, Ph.D.
Co-Principal investigator
Hyunju Oh, Ph.D.
Co-Principal investigator
Tom Schils, Ph.D.
Research Lead
Kikue Roberto
Project associate
Project Themes
Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services (BES)
Data Science And Modeling (DSM)
Integrative Biological Collections (IBC)
Research And Knowledge Translation (RKT)
Bastian Bentlage, Ph.D.
Principal investigator
Tom Schils, Ph.D.
Research Lead
Michalis Mihalitsis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Morphology
Hyunju Oh, Ph.D.
Co-Principal investigator
Leslie Aquino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Joo-Chul (J.C.) Yoon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Robert M. Lasley, Ph.D.
Co-Principal investigator
David Burdick, Ph.D.
Research Associate III
Kelsie Ebeling-Whited
Research Associate II
Geon Park
Extension Associate III (Database Manager)
Lloyd Dionisio
Extension associate I
Christopher Lobban, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Wei Xiao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Austin Shelton III, Ph.D.
Co-Principal investigator
Kyle Mandapat
Communications Lead
Abby Crain
G3 Circular Economy Education Coordinator
Louella Losinio
Publications & Media Supervisor
Christian Sumalpong
Science Communicator
Matt Wilson Zapata
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