Dr. Bryan A. Endress
Associate Professor & Assistant Director, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center
B.A. Biology. Luther College (1995)
M.S. Forestry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997)
Ph.D. Botany. Miami University (2002)
Dr. Joshua Averett, Postdoctoral Scholar
B.S. Rangeland Ecology and Management, Oregon State University (2012)
M.S. Rangeland Ecology and Management, Oregon State University (2014)
Ph.D. Rangeland Ecology and Management, Oregon State University (2025)
I am an applied ecologist focused on addressing natural resource challenges in semi-arid and arid ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. My research addresses natural resource challenges through the lens of plant ecology. I am passionate about understanding and informing sustainable management, restoration, and conservation of natural resources to benefit wildland ecosystems and human communities in the region. My research experience includes riparian and upland vegetation ecology and restoration, invasive plant ecology, and large herbivore-plant interactions
Lucinda Boyle
Faculty Research Assistant
B.S. Natural Resources, Honors
Oregon State University (2024)
I am a research assistant focused on assessing summer forage availability for mule deer in eastern Oregon. As a new arrival to the EOARC-Union and the area, I am interested in learning about the history of the landscape and current research and restoration efforts.
Maya Kahn-Abrams
Faculty Research Assistant
M.S. Restoration Ecology, University of Washington (2025)
BA/BS Environmental Microbiology & Ecology
The Evergreen State College (2019)
Maya’s work focuses on both the conservation of existing native plant populations and the restoration/introduction of new populations in grassland and shrub-steppe ecosystems, and has included working for the Rare Plant Care and Conservation program at the UW Botanic Gardens in Seattle, Washington, and the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Burns, Oregon. Maya is passionate about exploring how indigenous traditional ecological knowledge shapes equitable societies and ecological resiliency, and she remains committed to supporting native plants and indigenous communities while fostering a decolonial lens that recognizes the intrinsic relationally between human and non-human beings.
Hla Naing
PhD student
M.S. Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst (2015)
B.S. Forestry Sciences
University of Forestry and Environmental Science Yezin, Myanmar (2000)
