The Team

  • Erin Bentley

    Erin Bentley has been working in science outreach for her entire academic career, starting with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Opportunity for Undergraduates to serving as a Co-PI on a major NSF grant. You can see more of her outreach work on the Microbestiary’s webpage. She is currently a PhD student a the University of Wyoming under Dr. David Tank, studying the genetics of rarity in the Penstemon genus and the effects of transdiscplinary outreach on participants, students, and researchers.

  • Lars Roeder

    Lars Roeder is the Printmaking Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Wyoming. You can see more of his work here.

  • Dr. David Tank

    Dr. David Tank is the Director of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium and faculty in the University of Wyoming’s Botany Department and Program in Ecology and Evolution.

  • Bailey Russel

    Bailey Russel is the Professor of Photography at the University of Wyoming. His work ranges from traditional tintypes to large scale camera obscuras to digital landscape and animal photography. You can read more about it here.

  • Rebecca Austin

    Rebecca Austin is the Makerspace Coordinator for the University of Wyoming Makerspace Wyrkshop.