Position:
Owner at Zara Environmental LLC
Work:
Zara Environmental LLC
since Jun 2003
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Owner
US Fish and Wildlife Service
2000 - 2003
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Karst Invertebrate Specialist
Texas Memorial Museum
1998 - 2000
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Curator assistant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1992 - 1993
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Mammalogist at Illinois Natural History Survey
Education:
The University of Texas at Austin 1997 - 2005
Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1990 - 1995
BS, Zoology
Interests:
Ecological and evolutionary research, cave biology, cave exploration, ultralight flying
Honor & Awards:
Two species named in honor of work in the field of biospeleology (2004, 2008, and 2011):
Pseudocellus krejcae, Sequoiadesmus krejcae, Megaselia krejcae
P.E.O. Presidential endowed Scholar, $8, 000, Academic year 2002-2003, awarded summer 2002
Fellow Award of the National Speleological Society, summer 2001
UT Environmental Studies Institute Graduate Fellowship, $3, 000, summer 2001
Ralph Stone Award of the National Speleological Society, $1, 500, spring 2001
North American Native Fishes Association research award, $1, 000, spring 2001
UT Institute for Latin American Studies, Tinker fellowship, $1575, summer 1999
Phi Kappa Phi national ($7, 000) and regional ($1, 000) fellowship, spring 1997
Among top 5 Graduating Seniors in College of Science, SIUC, spring 1995
Among 25 Most Distinguished Seniors at SIUC, spring 1995
Mitchell Award for best paper presented by an undergraduate at National Speleological Society meeting