ERI Staff

Laura Dobeck is the surface monitoring manager for the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership. She also serves as the site manager for the Zero Emissions Research and Technology (ZERT) Center field experiment on the MSU-Bozeman campus testing and evaluating surface monitoring techniques. Laura is a chemist by training and holds a B.S. from UW-Madison and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cornell University.

Michelle Leonti is the administration manager for ERI. Michelle manages the administrative functions of the department and provides project management support to the director, managers, and researchers. Michelle's responsibilities include successfully managing, coordinating, compiling, and preparing new grant proposal submissions; recommending new funding announcement opportunities (FOAs) to the director; managing reporting; drafting correspondence; monitoring progress against plans including advising management of delays or concerns with deliverables; managing human resource issues; planning events; coordinating travel of employees to conferences and field sites; designing and maintaining a technical bibliographies database to encompass all ERI projects; functioning as the office manager for the department; managing computer orders and software licenses; providing basic computer technical support; and functioning as the central point of contact for information inquiries from/to internal and external media, inquiries from project emails and websites, and inquiries from the general public. Michelle has over 15 years of experience in executive assistant roles and over five years of experience as a research associate.