![David Askew](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2023/11/DaveAskew-scaled.jpg)
David Askew
Research Assistant 1
![Nicholas Boston](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2020/02/boston-headhot-scaled.jpg)
Nicholas Boston
Educational Program Administrator
Hiring/payroll (regular, special, undergrad), travel/reimbursement, purchase orders/requisitions (HuskyBuy), departmental finances/foundation, and visas.
Phone: 860.486.2296![Dana Drake](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2018/02/danadrake-e1518977573583.jpg)
Dana Drake
Research Associate I
Lab manager, Mark Urban Lab; study ecological mechanisms that shape natural communities; vernal pool ecosystems; amphibians
Web sitePhone: 860.486.6154
![Bianca Ferreira](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/nophoto.png)
Bianca Ferreira
Research Assistant 1
![Cole Geissler](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2023/10/cole-geissler.jpg)
Cole Geissler
Horticulturalist
Native orchid conservation, tropical collections management, and tissue culture techniques
![Harrison Goodale](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2022/10/harrisonidone.jpg)
Harrison Goodale
Educational Program Assistant 2
Graduate admissions, graduate payroll, department outreach and communication, and event coordination
![Freddy Guilao](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2022/09/freddy.jpg)
Freddy Guilao
Financial Assistant 1
Payroll( Undergrad) travel/reimbursement, purchase orders/requisitions(HuskyBuy)
![Erin Kuprewicz](http://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2016/08/Square-photo-Kuprewicz.jpg)
Erin Kuprewicz
Vertebrate Collections Manager
Plant-animal interactions (tropical mammals and insects); behavioral ecology of terrestrial mammal seed dispersers; barriers to plant migrations in the Anthropocene
Web site![Katrina Menard](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2020/03/Katrina.jpg)
Katrina Menard
Invertebrate Collections Manager
Collection Manager of Invertebrates; Systematic Entomology; Heteroptera.
Web site![Meghan Moriarty](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2020/06/meghan-moriarty-scaled.jpg)
Meghan Moriarty
Plant Growth Facilities Manager
Phone: 860.486.4213![Rachel Prunier](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2023/01/prunier_headshot.jpg)
Rachel Prunier
Academic Assistant 4
Evolutionary ecology and population genomics of plants. Evolution of diversity in hyper diverse regions.
![Sarah Taylor](http://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2017/09/SarahTaylor1.jpg)
Sarah Taylor
Herbarium Collections Manager
Plant Collections Manager; New England floristics; conservation of historic botanical collections
Phone: 860.486.1889![Lindsay Yue](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2022/09/lindsay-yue.jpg)