Susan Kegley, PhD, Principal and CEO

Dr. Susan Kegley is an organic chemist with expertise in pesticide toxicology, pollutant fate and transport; environmental monitoring and analytical chemistry; and experience with pesticide regulation, pesticide data sources and the pesticide toxicology and epidemiology literature. After 14 years of teaching, research and curriculum development in academia, Dr. Kegley worked as a Senior Scientist for nine years at Pesticide Action Network North America, a non-governmental, non-profit organization that works to promote sustainable alternatives to toxic pesticides. Dr. Kegley started Pesticide Research Institute in 2006. Click here for detailed resume.

Jacqueline Epps Spivey, PhD, Associate Scientist

Dr. Spivey is a recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz Department of Chemistry. Her expertise is in the physical chemistry of rhodopsin, the molecule of vision, studying the role of hydrogen bonding in protein stability and mechanistic function of a G-protein coupled receptor. She used nanosecond absorption laser spectroscopy to characterize the physiologically relevant photokinetics of rhodopsin. At PRI, Jacqueline has worked on adapting the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's age-adjusted cancer risk assessment methodology to exposure assessment for pesticide air monitoring. Click here for detailed resume.

Shauna L. Stahlman, Research Associate

Shauna graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009 with a degree in Integrative Biology. For the past year she has worked on several projects for PRI, including the development of a Toxicology database, a sensitivity analysis for dermal toxicity risk assessments for pesticides used on grapes, a written letter to EPA commenting on the 2009 spray drift label requirements, updates to the PAN international pesticide registration database, and various ecotoxicology projects for the Center for Biological Diversity. Her primary project, the Toxicology database, will make toxicology information available online from multiple data sources in summary form and provide links to original data sources, includingthe U.S. EPA and the EU risk assessments for pesticides. In Fall 2010, Shauna will be entering UCLA’s School of Public Health for a Masters in Epidemiology. Click here for detailed resume.

Joshua R. Pepper, Research Assistant

Josh is currently completing his final year of a selective Dual Degree Engineering Program in Universities of California, Santa Cruz and Berkeley. He will graduate with degrees in both environmental studies and environmental engineering. He is interested in the applications of data analysis and systems engineering to environmental systems. Click here for detailed resume.

Erin E. Conlisk, PhD, Associate Scientist (currently at UC Riverside)

Dr. Erin Conlisk is a recent graduate of the University of California’s Energy and Resources Group. Dr. Conlisk’s Masters thesis work focused on atmospheric chemistry, estimating the dry deposition of nitric acid near Lake Tahoe. Her doctoral dissertation research modeled the spatial patterns of individual plant species, community biodiversity at multiple scales, and species abundances with limited information. Click here for detailed resume.

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