Staff

 
   

  
           
                             
           

Ms. Kerry Brust

       
                   

 
 

   
 

Foxy 

   
                     
                             
     
  • SEI Board of Directors (Secretary- Treasurer) since April 1998
  • Senior Biologist- oversee red-cockaded woodpecker (RCWO) and American kestrel (AMKE) research and monitoring
  • Master Permittee through the USGS Bird Banding Lab
  • Permitted to restrict and drill RCWO cavities and translocate RCWO
  • Conduct RCWO monitoring and cavity management on Safe Harbor Properties within the North Carolina Sandhills- oversee these tasks and work cooperatively with private landowners, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and consultants.  Conduct RCWO monitoring on public lands including western Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall, Sandhills Game Lands (A-Block), Weymouth Woods, Calloway Forest and the McCain Tract.
  • Past experience includes various research projects including red-cockaded woodpecker monitoring on the Croatan National Forest and Camp LeJeune, North Carolina; surveyed and monitored common loons in New Hampshire; banded honeycreepers on the Big Island of Hawaii; banded and monitored seabirds on Tern Island, Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge; and behavioral ecology study of barn swallows in the Adirondack State Park, New York.
  • Earned a BS (1989) in Environmental Forest Biology from SUNY Syracuse- College of Environmental Science and Forestry, New York.
  • Vice President of the Sandhills Natural History Society
  • Familiar with Southeastern birds, frogs and toads (id and song) - budding interest in aquatic biology
     
                             
           

Ms. Jennifer Maynard

       
                             
     

Callie
                             
     
Jennifer joined SEI initially as an intern in 1998 while on summer break from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  After graduating in 1999 with a BS in Biology and a BS in Animal Science she returned to SEI for a year and then set out to discover some other parts of the country.  While she was gone she worked in research and development for a natural food company in California and did cancer research for a biotech company outside of Boston.  Though she was raised in New Hampshire, her heart was stolen by the NC Sandhills and she returned to SEI in 2003. 

Jennifer is the primary biologist conducting monitoring work with RCWs on western Ft. Bragg and Camp Mackall.  In addition she monitors a number of RCW clusters on the NC Gamelands as well as a handful of private properties.  2007 will be her seventh field season working with RCWs and she holds the record for highest number of RCW nestlings banded in one day - a dubious honor!

In the office Jennifer maintains the equipment inventory, does the majority of the purchasing and is the resident webmaster.

Outside of work Jennifer competes in triathlons, is an avid CrossFitter and enjoys doing nearly anything outdoors -- especially things that include her sidekick Callie.  Jennifer also has strong ties to the local military community and enjoys volunteering her time to a military family support group.

In August of 2008 Jennifer will be setting sail from SEI to embark on new adventures.  She will be attending a nursing graduate program at East Carolina University.
     
                             
           

Mr. Steve Anchor

       
                             
         
   

Pearl

               
     

Steve Anchor was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, and attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  He received a B.S. in Wildlife Science in December of 1999.  Go Hokies!

Steve has been with the Sandhills Ecological Institute since March 2001.  Steve is the primary biologist for monitoring red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCW’s) on private lands, and he assists with RCW monitoring on the Fort Bragg study area. 

Between 2003 and 2005, Steve was the biologist in charge of the American kestrel study on Fort Bragg, NC.  This study was initiated to investigate the subspecies of the kestrels breeding on Fort Bragg (American or Southeastern American kestrels), as well as to collect data on density and breeding habits of the Fort Bragg kestrels .  Blood samples were also collected as part of a continent wide DNA profile for kestrels.

In addition to field work, Steve is the office GIS taskmaster, helping keep track of RCW tree and cluster locations, and creating maps for a number of different projects.

Away from the office, Steve is the captain of the Southern Pines Rugby Football Club, and enjoys a number of athletic and outdoor activities.  Steve competed in the Myrtle Beach Half Marathon in February 2007.  He proudly came in 1154th place; nipping, just 60 minutes behind, at the heels of the race winner.