Administrative Staff

View our full Administrative Staff below or view the Org Chart

Director's Office

Waleed Abdalati
Director

William M. Lewis Jr.
Associate Director

Lornay Hansen
Executive Assistant to the Director

Paula Robinson
Associate Director for Administration

Kristen Averyt
CIRES Associate Director for Science

Communications

Katy Human
Director of Communications

Robin L. Strelow
Graphic Designer/CIRES Photographer

Karin Vergoth
CIRES-NOAA Science Writer

Laura Krantz
Science Writer

CIRES IT

Nate Campbell
CIRES IT Manager

David Zakavec
Support Specialist

Tom Priestley
Unix/Windows System Administrator

Lisa Ho
Software Developer/Database Administrator

Matthew Price
Web Developer

Anya Katarina Owsenek
STUDENT IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Diego Gomes
STUDENT IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Education and Outreach

Susan Buhr Sullivan
Director: Program design, management, and professional development

Susan Lynds
Program evaluation, editing, and project management

Lesley Smith
Freshwater and ocean science education, professional development for teachers

Amanda Morton
Assistant to the Director

Anne Gold
Project coordinator for CLEAN (Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network)

Jennifer Taylor
Curriculum Development & Project Coordinator

George Sharman
Official Volunteer

David Oonk
Multimedia Coordinator

Events

Linda Pendergrass
Event Coordinator

Financial Services

Andrew Pomper
Chief Financial Officer

Jennie Bell
Pre-award administration (proposal support), post-award administration and Travel

Marc Cloninger
Pre-award administration (proposal support), post-award administration and Travel

Ted DeMaria
Pre-award administration (proposal support), export control, contract negotiation, post-award administration

Andrea Dietz
Pre-award administration (proposal support), post-award administration, Cooperative Agreement accounting and Travel

Barbara Hull (Hoge)
Cooperative Agreement Manager for Task II funds, insurance and risk management support

Cholpon Minbaeva
Property, Pre-award administration (proposal support), post-award administration and Travel

Nan Regnier
Travel Manager

Gretchen Richard
Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Administrative manager, Cooperative Agreement accounting, chief proposal preparation specialist

Alexa Van Mierlo
Travel, Pre-award administration (proposal support), post-award administration

Human Resources, Personnel and Payroll

Annette Sargent
Graduate school appointments, leave records and maintenance, payroll liaison backup assistance

Karen Dempsey

Rhonda Miller
Personnel records, new appointments

Nancy Lathrop
Payroll/HR Special Projects and Associate Payroll Liaison

Integrated Instrument Development Facility Department page

Don David
Director

Ken Smith
Instrument engineering

Jim Kastengren
Machine Shop Foreman

Wayne Winkler
Electronic design

Yehor Novikov
Scientific Glass Blowing

Daniel Warren
Machinist

Main Campus Message Center

Sarah McCoy
Office Manager and student supervisor

David Skaggs Research Center (NOAA) Administrative Support

Lucia Harrop
Office manager and CIRES liaison with NOAA

CIRES Facilities & Ergonomics

Rob Schubert
Facilities service and maintenance, office ergonomics, security and emergencies