Departments and Contacts

Museum Phone Number: (907) 474-7505
Campus area code is 907; all phone numbers begin with prefix 474
Museum Email for General Inquiries: ua-museum@alaska.edu

Mailing address: PO Box 756960, Fairbanks, AK 99775

Department/Name

Position

Phone

Email

Administration
Pat Druckenmiller Museum Director 6989 psdruckenmiller@alaska.edu
Emilie Nelson Administrative Affairs Manager 6443 emilie.nelson@alaska.edu
Barbara Ellanna Fiscal Professional 6949 barbara.ellanna@alaska.edu
Kevin May Head of Operations 5358 kcmay@alaska.edu
       
Development
Aelin Allegood Development Officer 2786 ajallegood@alaska.edu
       
Visitor Services
Christina Parks-Zlinszky Director of Visitor Services 6941 cparks8@alaska.edu
Marcus Avugiak Visitor Services Manager 7770 mcavugiak@alaska.edu
Carson Frank Store Manager  6939 chfrank@alaska.edu
 
Education and Public Programs
Jennifer Arseneau Director of Education & Public Programs  6948 j.arseneau@alaska.edu
Elisabeth Padilla Outreach Specialist & Field Trip Coordinator
 5602 erobins@alaska.edu
Jose Salas Outreach Specialist 5140 jasalas@alaska.edu
Nan Werdin-Pfisterer Outreach Specialist 5360 nrwerdin@alaska.edu
       
Exhibits and Digital Media
Roger Topp Director of Exhibits 6985 rmtopp@alaska.edu
Tamara Martz Lead Designer 6951 tfmartz@alaska.edu
Jonah Wright Chief Preparator 6953 jrwright@alaska.edu
       
Alaska Center for Documentary Film
Leonard Kamerling Curator Emeritus 7437 ljkamerling@alaska.edu
       
Archaeology
Josh Reuther Curator 6945 jreuther@alaska.edu
Scott Shirar Collection Manager 6943 sjshirar@alaska.edu
Haley McCaig Research Archaeologist 1510 hkmccaig@alaska.edu
Audra Darcy Research Archaeologist 1510 ajdarcy@alaska.edu
       
Earth Sciences
Patrick Druckenmiller Curator 6954 psdruckenmiller@alaska.edu
       
Entomology
Derek Sikes Curator 6278 dssikes@alaska.edu
Jessica Rykken Collection Manager 6946 jjrykken@alaska.edu
       
Ethnology & History
Angela Linn Senior Collections Manager 1828 ajlinn@alaska.edu
       
Fine Arts
Della Hall Collection Manager 5102 dchall@alaska.edu
       
Fishes and Marine Invertebrates
J. Andrés Lopez Curator 7828 jalopez2@alaska.edu
       
Genomic Resources
Mallory Gulbranson Collection Manager 6914 megulbranson@alaska.edu
       
Herbarium
Stefanie Ickert-Bond Curator 6277 smickertbond@alaska.edu
Alan Batten Research Affiliate 7109 arbatten@alaska.edu
Carolyn Parker Research Professional 7109 clparker@alaska.edu
Cam Webb Botanist & Biodiversity Informaticist 7079 cowebb@alaska.edu
       
Mammalogy
Link Olson Curator 5998 link.olson@alaska.edu
Aren Gunderson Collection Manager 6947 amgunderson@alaska.edu
Natalie Hamilton Postdoctoral Researcher   nmhamilton@alaska.edu
       
Ornithology
Kevin Winker Curator 7027 kevin.winker@alaska.edu
Jack Withrow Collection Manager 7359 jjwithrow@alaska.edu
Dan Gibson Research Affiliate 7359 avesalaska@gmail.com
       
Planetarium
Omega Smith Planetarium Director 6243 omegasmith@alaska.edu