Abby Hardin-Kohli

Abby is a 3rd-year PhD student in the Mathematics Department, working in ecological modeling. She's specifically interested in rate-induced tipping, ecological management, and forecasting. When she's not doing math, you'll often find her playing board games, hitting the climbing gym, or cuddling her cat.

Anthony Jajeh

Anthony is a 4th-year Mathematics Ph.D. student at the University of Utah. He is interested in studying the process of EPS production in sea ice through data analytics, fluid dynamics, PDEs, and ODEs. In his free time, he likes to hang out with friends and go to jiu-jitsu.

Lauren Whelton

Lauren is a 2nd-year Biology Ph.D. Student, working on modeling microbial community dynamics of the microbialites of Great Salt Lake. To better understand how this key piece of the benthic food chain will respond to lake desiccation, Lauren is synthesizing field work and modeling techniques to construct the first known microbial interaction network for the microbialites. She is also interested in understanding the process of microbialite recovery following a desiccation event. In her free time, you will find her crocheting or watching trashy reality TV, all while cuddling her cats!

Rylie Gagne

Rylie is a fourth-year student working towards a Data Science degree. She is passionate about exploring the natural world using data and mathematics while effectively communicating data through visualizations. Outside of academia, she enjoys attending live music, spending time outside, and knitting a vast collection of sweaters.

Nathan Gregor

Nathan is a sophomore at the University of Utah pursuing a degree in Biology. He is interested in the natural world and its denizens big, small, and microscopic, and is always seeking to learn more about them and how they shape and are shaped by their environments. Some of his hobbies include hiking, birdwatching, and writing.

Jessie Kalinowski

Kaitlyn Landers

Lucy Leary

Lucy is a second-year honors undergraduate student majoring in math and minoring in integrated health and ecology, cognitive science, and computer science. She plays ultimate frisbee for the University of Utah's women's ultimate frisbee team, and for fun she likes handlettering and teaching her dog new tricks. She works for the Marriott Library, the Math Tutoring Center, the Honors College Peer-Mentoring program, and Austin Green's Wildlife Coexistance lab.

Kathy (Zhiyao) Lin

Kathy is an undergraduate student in the Mathematics Department with a strong research interest in modeling the dynamics of microbial communities in the Arctic. Her previous work involved plotting the complex permittivity of sea ice and brine inclusions containing algae and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Currently, she is developing dynamic models to better understand microbial interactions with their environment, aiming to uncover insights into their ecological roles and their responses to changing environmental conditions.

Chance Moran

Chance is a third-year honors undergraduate student majoring in mathematics with an emphasis in statistics and minoring in computer science and Spanish. He is passionate about the application of data science and statistics to ecology and hopes to further explore this intersection. When not doing math, he enjoys reading, gardening, playing board games, and learning new languages.

Hannah Meier

Hannah is a second-year PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology advised by Jon Wang, but she hangs out with the Reimer lab too. Her research interest lies in understanding how the drying of the Great Salt Lake has changed and will change aspects of the lake's microbiota. To do this her work will incorporate field, laboratory, modeling, and remote sensing techniques. In her free time, Hannah can be found playing pinball, cooking, reading, or working on puzzles of any kind.