People
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Valerie Davis
Interim Director and Operations Division Director
Lifelong New Mexican who values supporting educational endeavors by utilizing her administrative skills to support research programs, with sustainable and creative solutions.
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Dr. Dan Jones
Assistant Professor of Geobiology, New Mexico Tech
Academic Director NCKRIDan has been studying caves and the microbes that make them since 2005. Geomicrobiologist, geochemist, and karst scientist. Assistant Professor of Geobiology at New Mexico Tech.
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Dr. Patricia Seiser
Cave and Karst Management Science Director
I view life like a never-ending cave—always something different around the next corner, always something new to see and explore, and on occasion a passage brings you right back to where you started from but having learned a great deal.
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Dr. Lewis Land
Karst Hydrogeologist
Lewis has been doing hydrogeology in New Mexico since 2002. Most of his work involves big-picture investigations of karstic aquifers, but he sometimes finds his way into caves and sinkholes.
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Devra Heyer
Education Program Manager
Mary Poppins and Ms. Frizzle are my heroes, so I take chances, make mistakes, and have a never-ending tool bag to solve problems. I also like to trepidatiously go where no one has gone before with an ample supply of gummy bears.