Welcome to Tall Timbers
Call Tall Timbers – 850.893.4153
Tall Timbers Staff Contacts
Administration
William E. Palmer, PhD, President/CEO – ext. 226 or email
Audrey Browning, Executive Administrative Assistant, ext. 241 or email
Kris Miller, Receptionist/ Facilities Coordinator, ext. 228 or email
Accounting
Melissa Proctor, Controller, Chief Financial Officer – ext. 248 or email
Bonita Ashton, Assistant Controller/Bookkeeper – ext. 246 or email
Rosi Nichols, Payroll Accountant, email
Alvin D Johnson, Accounts Payable – ext. 264 or email
Deanna Doss, LP Payables & Employee Onboarding/Benefits – ext. 245 or email
Communications
Brian Wiebler, Communications Director – ext. 345 or email
Karl Etters, Communications Coordinator – ext. 342 or email
Leslie Ballenger, Communications Specialist – 362 email
Development
Crystal Davis Rice, Development Director – ext. 343 or email
Hannah Miller, Development Coordinator – ext. 249 or email
Madison Phillips, Development Events Manager – ext. 363 or email
Facilities
Wayne Miller, Facilities Coordinator, ext. 258 or email
Jerome Golden, Facilities – ext. 233 or email
Information Technology
Kurt Haffner, IT Systems Manager – email
Darren Kopacz, IT Systems Coordinator – ext. 247 or email
Land Conservancy
Shane Wellendorf, Tall Timbers Land Conservancy Director – ext. 231 or email
Neil A. Fleckenstein, Planning Coordinator – ext. 335 or email
Ben Naselius, Red Hills Planner – 297 email
Leslie Elmore, Conservation Coordinator – 362 email
Kim Lynn Nguyen, Conservation Biologist – 292 email
Josh Webb, Conservation Stewardship Coordinator – 229 email
Holly Guthrie, Land Conservancy Office Manager- ext. 361 or email
Tyler Macmillan, Conservation Program Liaison – 250 email
Nelson Ball, RCPP Field Biologist – 288 email
Kyla Lenehan, RCPP Biological/Forestry Technician – 291 email
Land Management
Eric Staller, Director of Land Management and Fire Operations – ext. 240 or email
Andrew Chase, Assistant Land Manager – 298 email
Research
J. Morgan Varner, PhD, Director of Research – ext. 224 or email
Chris Matechik, Remote Sensing Analyst – 295 email
Fire Ecology
Kevin M. Robertson, PhD, Director, Fire Ecology Program – ext. 254 or email
Brandi Griffin, Fire Ecologist – ext. 296 or email
Jean Huffman, PhD, Research Associate, Dendrochronology – 294 email
Fire Science Applications
Seth Bigelow, PhD, Senior Research Ecologist – 286 email
Smoke Science Program
Holly Nowell, PhD, Smoke Science Program Director and Assistant Scientist – 260 email
Geospatial Lab
Karen Cummins, Geospatial Database Administrator- 242 email
Jennifer Rogers, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technology Specialist – 293 email
Game Bird Research & Outreach
Dwayne Elmore, PhD, Director, Game Bird Program – 237 email
Clay Sisson, Director, Albany Quail Project – 259 email
Brad Kubecka, PhD, Program Director & Western Game Bird Scientist – 262 email
Mark Sasser, Alabama Quail Program Coordinator – email
Geoff Beane, Research/Prog. Manager, Central FL Rangeland Quail Program (CFRQP) 268 email
Alex Jackson, Game Bird Research and Extension Biologist – ext. 268 or email
Michael Hazelbaker, Game Bird Research Biologist, Tall Timbers – ext. 237 or email
Justin Rectenwald, Game Bird Biologist, Albany Quail Project – 257 email
Holly Lott, Game Bird Research Biologist, Livingston Place – 276 email
Paul Grimes, Game Bird Biologist, Carolina Regional Quail Program – 271 email
Kyle Magdziuk, Delmarva Prescribed Fire Coordinator & Game Bird Biologist – 272 email
Matthew Kunkle, Rollins Ranch Research & Program Manager – 266 email
Amanda Schmidt, Game Bird Research Biologist, CFRQP – email
Sarah Brown, Public Lands Monitoring Coordinator – email
Stoddard Bird Lab
Kate Richardson, PhD, Stoddard Bird Director and Assistant Scientist – ext. 223 or email
Rob Meyer, Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Conservation Biologist – 290 email
Biological Monitoring
Kim Sash, Biological Monitoring Coordinator – ext. 336 or email
Livingston Place
John-Michael McCormick, Land Manager – 277 email
Holly Lott, Livingston Place Biologist – 276 email
Private Lands Prescribed Fire Initiative
John P. McGuire, Director, Private Lands Fire Initiative – 251 email
Steve Wasp, Burn Team Coordinator – 354 email
Zach Prusak, Wildland Fire Training Specialist – 279 email
John S. Kush, PhD, Outreach & Education Coordinator
George Jensen, SW Georgia Prescribed Burn Association Coordinator – 366 email
Lee Stuckey, Central Alabama Prescribed Burn Association Coordinator – email
Jeremy Martin, Northwest Florida Prescribed Burn Association Coordinator – 284 email
Ryan Mitchell, Southeast Private Lands Prescribed Fire Outreach Coordinator – 280
Ashley Curtis, Savannah River PBA Coordinator – 263
Kyle Carrington, East Texas Prescribed Fire Outreach Coordinator – 282
Josiah Gullatte, Prescribed Fire Outreach Specialist and Training Liaison
National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center
Charles “Chaz” Oliver, Prescribed Fire Training Specialist– ext. 1040 or email
Southern Fire Exchange
David R. Godwin, PhD, Director, Southern Fire Exchange – ext. 261 or email
