Bean Lab Members
Faculty
William “Tim” Bean, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
My goal is to train students to be excellent field biologists with strong quantitative skills. I usually work on mammals, mostly in California, using a combination of publicly available data, data collected in the field, and remote sensing techniques. I strongly believe we should learn to use, and develop, cutting edge techniques while remaining rooted in a strong tradition of natural history.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Scott M. Appleby, PhD 🏳️🌈
Scott’s research focuses on population and community modeling, integrating a variety of novel monitoring techniques and machine learning to inform wildlife conservation and management.
Reina Warnert, PhD
A recent graduate from UC Merced, Reina is studying the impact of supplemental water on pronghorn in the Carrizo Plain, as well as wildlife response to a highway under-crossing in Tehachapi, CA. During her doctorate, she studied the impacts of wildfire and climate change on small mammal communities in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains. Her research interests include conservation ecology and change over time, with an emphasis on mammals and wildfire. In her free time, she enjoys painting, reading, creative writing, and hiking up steep hills.
Graduate Students
Jen Ibarra
Jen is interested in the use of fire as a land management tool and is investigating the impacts of cultural and prescribed burning on giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens) habitat in and around the Carrizo Plain National Monument. She is also exploring the use of non-invasive surveys to update occupancy models that aim to predict the presence or absence of giant kangaroo rats and inform future management decisions.
She is a seasoned field biologist and has worked on field projects that include surveying and tracking of Mojave Desert tortoises, California condors, flat-tailed horned lizards, and California gnatcatchers. Jen looks forward to learning more about the natural world around her and supports the inclusion of traditional ecological knowledge and western science throughout her work.
Alumni
Patrick Anderson
Ian Axsom
Katie Elder
Garrett Gimbel
Des Thomaier
Caroline MacKenzie
Tricia Nguyen