Our Staff

As illustrator and photographer for the Dinosaur Institute, Stephanie Abramowicz merges scientific research with artistic sensibility.

Trevor Alixopulos supports the services and holdings of the Research Library at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Lizbeth is interested in integrating community science and long-term monitoring methods across coastal and terrestrial ecosystems.

Jenna works on the marine microplastics grant.

Megan is an entomologist and evolutionary biologist who uses museum collections, genomics, and developmental biology to understand the processes which generate Earth's insect biodiversity. Megan's research primarily focuses on ants (family: Formicidae).

Cass manages the Collections Rescue project, funded by the California Institute for Biodiversity.

Museum collections form a vital component of Kayce's research on mammal and parasite diversity and distribution. She is interested in the processes that lead to new species and how host diversity impacts parasite evolution.

Dr. Brian V. Brown, retired head of NHM's Entomology Department and Curator Emeritus of Entomology, is an expert on the systematics of phorid flies, especially the tropical species of ant-decapitating flies, genus Apocephalus.

Yolanda Bustos directs all activities related to the museum archives, libraries, and library special collections at the Natural History Museum and La Brea Tar Pits.