Staff - Who to Call and What they Do

Katie Doctor

Budget Analyst, Department Office 

33-272
805-756-5241
kdoctor@calpoly.edu

See Katie for financial details related to department expenses, college-based fees (CBF), projects and faculty research grants. She also takes care of student assistant matters, student field trip release forms, and CBF applications.

Miranda Wyzlic

Administrative Analyst, Department Chair Office

33-273
805-756-5242
msyzlic@calpoly.edu

Andrea makes appointments and provides general clerical support for the department chair and department faculty. She routes and responds to students, alumni and the public who email the department. She coordinates faculty recruitments and personnel matters, organizes part-time teaching assignments, and coordinates Open House activities and other special department events.

Kristin Reeves

Administrative Support Coordinator, Department Office

33-281
805-756-2788
kreeve01@calpoly.edu

Kristin is responsible for the front office, issuing/managing department keys, maintaining the department website, making Biology and university room reservations, ordering supplies, handling telephone issues, and managing the BioSci email address.

Dave Clendenen

Instructional Support Tech

53-309
805-756-2712
dclenden@calpoly.edu

Dave supports classes in botany, plant taxonomy, general biology and physiology.  He is also Lands Manager for Morro Coast Audubon Society, managing Sweet Springs Nature Preserve and other conservation lands, and is a consulting biologist as well, working on habitat conservation and restoration in the Tulare Basin.

B.S., Natural Resources Management, with a concentration in Wildlife Biology, Cal Poly, 1981

Alice Hamrick

Instructional Support Tech II

53-309
805-756-2164
ahamrick@calpoly.edu

Alice is the molecular biology support technician and is responsible for the molecular and cell biology lab setups and working with students doing senior or individual projects.  Alice is responsible for training students on equipment and chemical safe practices, and she manages the stockroom.  Getting to use her creative side, she designs and installs educational and promotional displays for the museum cases in the department.  She is a University of California trained Master Gardener and loves plants. 

B.S., Biochemistry, Cal Poly, 2002

Craig Jacobson

Instructional Support Tech II

33-458
805-756-7520
cjacobso@calpoly.edu

John Merriam

Instructional Support Tech III

33-466
805-756-7531
jmmerria@calpoly.edu

John oversees the microbiology prep room and is responsible for the daily output of media, bacterial cultures, and equipment for all microbiology laboratory sections. He maintains a large culture collection for both teaching and research use. Most of the department's lab media, reagents and stains are made in-house.

B.S., University of Colorado

Doug Brewster

CSM Equipment Technician III, Electromechanical

52-D24
805-756-2701 or 805-235-2017
dbrewste@calpoly.edu

Rob Brewster

CSM Equipment Technician III, Electromechanical

52-D24
805-756-2701 or 805-458-5916
rabrewst@calpoly.edu

Ian Robbins

Senior Research Scientist, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences

180-530

805-756-7131

irobbins@calpoly.edu

Ian oversees Cal Poly’s Ocean Observing Laboratory under Dr. Ryan Walter and Dr. Alexis Pasulka.  His interests include the ecology and dynamics of phytoplankton and harmful algal blooms, long term ocean observation data sets (“underwater weather”), HF Radar and sea surface currents, autonomous aerial and underwater vehicles, scuba diving and all the technology that supports those platforms.  Data can be visualized at Morro Bay and San Luis Bay underwater data and HF Radar Surface Currents.

B.A. Marine Science, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, 2000
M.S. Biology, Cal Poly, 2006

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