Eric and I collaborate as Graduate Student Representatives for the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) at Colorado State University. Eric was already a graduate representative when I joined the team and he demonstrated an unparalleled ability to onboard a new team member into a project with lots of moving parts. I am exceptionally grateful for how easy Eric made it for me to step into my new role and feel successful. The first project we worked on together was organizing the department's new graduate student orientation, a tricky thing in the summer of 2020 at the height of social distancing. Eric demonstrated excellent organizing skills, facilitated communications effectively between a large group of people (where everyone was working remotely), maintained professional and friendly communication with attendees and showed exceptional attention to detail in planning the event, executing day of tasks and in follow-up with presenters and attendees. He is undoubtedly an asset to any team and I look forward to continuing to work with him throughout the remainder of his terms as a graduate representative for the department.

I first met Eric during my first year of graduate school as a visiting student, and have known him well for several years since. We have taken several ecology and modeling courses together, and in class he has a gift for breaking down complex problems into simple and clear parts. He is a natural leader in groups, who is both thoughtful and considerate of other's voices while speaking confidently on behalf of himself and others. I personally rely on Eric whenever I have a complex spatial analysis problem, and he has helped me solve a number of challenges I have come across in my own research. He is also a creative and capable coder, and highly skilled at building and managing geographic information systems in ESRI and R platforms. Eric also has a sharp eye for ecology, and I always enjoy our conversations about arid ecosystems, remote sensing, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and Bayesian statistics. Eric would be a hugely valuable asset and an excellent team member in any spatial, ecological, or remote sensing focused research group.

Eric and I collaborate as Graduate Student Representatives for the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) at Colorado State University. Eric was already a graduate representative when I joined the team and he demonstrated an unparalleled ability to onboard a new team member into a project with lots of moving parts. I am exceptionally grateful for how easy Eric made it for me to step into my new role and feel successful. The first project we worked on together was organizing the department's new graduate student orientation, a tricky thing in the summer of 2020 at the height of social distancing. Eric demonstrated excellent organizing skills, facilitated communications effectively between a large group of people (where everyone was working remotely), maintained professional and friendly communication with attendees and showed exceptional attention to detail in planning the event, executing day of tasks and in follow-up with presenters and attendees. He is undoubtedly an asset to any team and I look forward to continuing to work with him throughout the remainder of his terms as a graduate representative for the department.

I first met Eric during my first year of graduate school as a visiting student, and have known him well for several years since. We have taken several ecology and modeling courses together, and in class he has a gift for breaking down complex problems into simple and clear parts. He is a natural leader in groups, who is both thoughtful and considerate of other's voices while speaking confidently on behalf of himself and others. I personally rely on Eric whenever I have a complex spatial analysis problem, and he has helped me solve a number of challenges I have come across in my own research. He is also a creative and capable coder, and highly skilled at building and managing geographic information systems in ESRI and R platforms. Eric also has a sharp eye for ecology, and I always enjoy our conversations about arid ecosystems, remote sensing, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and Bayesian statistics. Eric would be a hugely valuable asset and an excellent team member in any spatial, ecological, or remote sensing focused research group.

Eric and I collaborate as Graduate Student Representatives for the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) at Colorado State University. Eric was already a graduate representative when I joined the team and he demonstrated an unparalleled ability to onboard a new team member into a project with lots of moving parts. I am exceptionally grateful for how easy Eric made it for me to step into my new role and feel successful. The first project we worked on together was organizing the department's new graduate student orientation, a tricky thing in the summer of 2020 at the height of social distancing. Eric demonstrated excellent organizing skills, facilitated communications effectively between a large group of people (where everyone was working remotely), maintained professional and friendly communication with attendees and showed exceptional attention to detail in planning the event, executing day of tasks and in follow-up with presenters and attendees. He is undoubtedly an asset to any team and I look forward to continuing to work with him throughout the remainder of his terms as a graduate representative for the department.

I first met Eric during my first year of graduate school as a visiting student, and have known him well for several years since. We have taken several ecology and modeling courses together, and in class he has a gift for breaking down complex problems into simple and clear parts. He is a natural leader in groups, who is both thoughtful and considerate of other's voices while speaking confidently on behalf of himself and others. I personally rely on Eric whenever I have a complex spatial analysis problem, and he has helped me solve a number of challenges I have come across in my own research. He is also a creative and capable coder, and highly skilled at building and managing geographic information systems in ESRI and R platforms. Eric also has a sharp eye for ecology, and I always enjoy our conversations about arid ecosystems, remote sensing, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and Bayesian statistics. Eric would be a hugely valuable asset and an excellent team member in any spatial, ecological, or remote sensing focused research group.