Meet Our Team

Keng-Lou James Hung is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma. James has been studying the ecology and conservation of San Diego’s native bees for the last 10 years, and uses this experience to provide bee identifications for the project and analyze the data that result from the monitoring efforts.

Contact: kljhung@ou.edu

Gabriele Wienhausen, a Board member of the Torrey Pines Docent Society, thoroughly enjoys getting to know the Torrey Pines Reserve’s spectacular wildlife and contributing through activities such as removing invasive plant species and leading Public Walks. She is the docent liaison to the UC San Diego and docent co-coordinator for the bee monitoring project.

Contact: gwienhausen@ucsd.edu

Jess Mullins is a PhD student at UC San Diego studying how land-use change impacts native bee biodiversity in San Diego. She aids in identifying the iNaturalist bee observations to build onto a bee species list for the reserve and analyze the data to assess changes over time. Jess is excited to see how non-lethal monitoring efforts and community science can be used together to engage a broad audience to gather crucial biodiversity data.

Robert James, M.S., is a wildlife biologist and educator. As a WannaBee, he orients new members, develops guides to help with data recording and using iNaturalist, as well as assists in promoting the Bee Monitoring Project. Robert hopes that others will be inspired to care about our incredible native bee and overall biodiversity at TPSNR.

Tina Tong, M.S. is a retired (not tired) civil engineer. She’s a lifelong love affair with numbers and has been fascinated by data. Data teaches and reveals stories. As a part of the WannaBee project for the last two years, she’s extracted data from iNaturalist and created and shared the reports that show the most popular bees, their hosting followers, survey routes, and the environment. Send any data related queries to twtong01@gmail.com.