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
Lorrie Asbell, Executive Assistant – ext. 241 or email
Carisa Miller, Receptionist, 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
Deanna Beck, Accounts Payable & Purchasing Specialist – ext. 245 or email
Rebekah Church, Sr. Grants Manager – ext. 225 or email
Communications
Brian Wiebler, Communications Director – ext. 345 or email
Karl Etters, Communications Coordinator – ext. 342 or email
Rose Rodriguez, Publications Coordinator – ext. 258 or email
Juanita Whiddon, Historical Resources Coordinator – ext. 236 or email
Development
Crystal Davis Rice, Development Director – ext. 343 or email
Tori Crawford, Development Coordinator, ext. 249 or email
Facilities
Lorrie Asbell, Facilities Director – ext. 241 or email
Jerome Golden, Facilities – ext. 233 or email
Geospatial Lab & Information Technology
Joe Noble, GIS/Information Technology Program Director – ext. 232 or email
Holly Nowell, PhD, Project Research Scientist – email
Karen Cummins, Geospatial Database Administrator – email
Chris Matechik, Remote Sensing Analyst
Raina Monaghan, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technology Specialist
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
Holly Guthrie, Land Conservancy Office Manager- ext. 361 or email
Tyler Macmillan, Conservation Program Liaison – email
Kim Lynn Nguyen, Conservation Biologist – email
Josh Webb, Conservation Stewardship Coordinator – email
Nelson Ball, RCPP Field Biologist – email
RESEARCH
J. Morgan Varner, PhD, Director of Research – ext. 224 or email
Nicole Zampieri, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Research
Scientist – email
Matthew Nolasco, Lidar Analyst – email
Fire Ecology
Kevin M. Robertson, PhD, Director, Fire Ecology Program – ext. 254 or email
Cinnamon Dixon, Fire Ecologist – ext. 243 or email
Jean Huffman, PhD, Research Associate, Dendrochronology – email
Mary Nell Armstrong, Fire Ecology Outreach Specialist – email
Fire Science Applications
Seth Bigelow, PhD, Senior Research Ecologist – email
Leah Eggeman, Fire Science Forester – email
Steve Flanagan, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow – email
Quinn Hiers, Fire Ecology Biologist – email
Vanessa Niemczyk, Field Technician – email
Saphirra Orrion, Administrative Coordinator – email
Wade Ross, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow/Remote Sensor – email
Greg Seamon, Fire Training Specialist, PFTC – email
Robert N. Spencer, Fire Science Lab Technician – email
Derek Wallace, Fire Science Research Assist/Biologist II – email
Game Bird
Alex Jackson, Red Hills Game Bird Research and Extension Biologist – ext. 268 or email
Clay Sisson, Director, Albany Quail Project – email
Brad Kubecka, PhD, Program Director & Western Game Bird Scientist – email
Michael Hazelbaker, Game Bird Research Biologist, Tall Timbers – ext. 237 or email
Justin Rectenwald, Game Bird Biologist, Albany Quail Project – email
Holly Lott, Game Bird Research Biologist, Livingston Place – email
Paul Grimes, Game Bird Biologist, Carolina Regional Quail Program – email
Mark Sasser, Alabama Quail Program Coordinator – email
Geoff Beane, Research/Prog. Manager, Central FL Rangeland Quail Program (CFRQP) email
Matthew Kunkle, Rollins Ranch Research & Program Manager – email
Amanda Schmidt, Game Bird Research Biologist, CFRQP – email
John Palarski, Biologist, WPQP – email
Sarah Brown, Public Lands Monitoring Coordinator – email
Stoddard Bird Lab
Jim Cox, Stoddard Bird Lab Director – ext. 223 or email
Heather Levy, Stoddard Bird Lab Biologist – email
Rob Meyer, Woodpecker Conservation Biologist – email
Biological Monitoring
Kim Sash, Biological Monitoring Coordinator – ext. 336 or email
Land Management
Eric Staller, Director of Land Management and Fire Operations – ext. 240 or email
Andrew Chase, Assistant Land Manager – email
Livingston Place
Clay Sisson, Director, Livingston Place – email
Randy Floyd, Land Manager, Livingston Place – email
John-Michael McCormick, Asst. Land Manager – email
Holly Lott, Game Bird Biologist – email
Private Lands Prescribed Fire Initiative
John P. McGuire, Director, Private Lands Fire Initiative – email
Steve Wasp, Burn Team Coordinator – email
Zach Prusak, Wildland Fire Training Specialist – email
John S. Kush, PhD, Outreach & Education Coordinator
George Jensen, SW Georgia Prescribed Burn Association Coordinator – email
Lee Stuckey, Central Alabama Prescribed Burn Association Coordinator – email
Jeremy Martin, Northwest Florida Prescribed Burn Association Coordinator – email
Southern Fire Exchange
David R. Godwin, PhD, Director, Southern Fire Exchange – ext. 261 or email
