Staff - Who to Call and What they Do
Department Office Staff
Department Technical Staff
College Technical Staff
Research Staff
Department Office Staff
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.
Andrea Nash
Administrative Analyst, Department Chair Office
33-273
805-756-5242
anash@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.
Department Technical Staff
Dave Clendenen
Instructional Support Tech II
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
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
College Technical Staff
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
Research Staff
Ian Robbins
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences
180-530
805-756-0530
irobbins@calpoly.edu
Ian's research interest is the ecology and dynamics of harmful algal blooms; his thesis focused on the red tide species Karenia brevis and the ecology of this species on the West Florida shelf. He writes the Cal Poly Remote Adventures blog about CCMS projects around the globe.
B.A. Marine Science, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, 2000
M.S. Biology, Cal Poly, 2006
Grant Waltz
53-114
805-756-2950
gwaltz@calpoly.edu
Research Assistant, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences and Dean Wendt Laboratory
Grant focuses on collaborative fisheries, biological testing of anti-fouling and foul-release boat hull paints, and measuring oceanographic parameters. He earned a master’s of science degree in biological sciences from Cal Poly where he studied the effects of foot traffic to rocky intertidal organisms.
B.S. Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, 2005
M.S. Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2012