Jennifer Reithel, PhD
Science Director
Jennie first came to RMBL in 1993 as an undergraduate, working on bee behavior research. Since then, she's been a winter caretaker, graduate student, and instructor at RMBL. She received a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the Univ California at Irvine. She became RMBL’s first Science Director in 2007. She and her husband, Ian, raised two boys, Cormac and Giles, in Crested Butte and Gothic. She enjoys hiking, bee-watching, botanizing, and socializing in the RMBL dining hall.