Tom Burt started working in the Maloney Lab in 1995 and has always been the FAE “Field Assistant Extraordinaire”.  Via osmosis he has become a forest & conservation biologist and has been the primary contract cone collector for gene conservation efforts of high-elevation white pines in California and Nevada.  When not being Big Daddy (to our daughters Nina and Hannah) or FAE, Tom is out riding on whatever medium of water that is beckoning him (i.e., snow, freshwater, saltwater, or ice) or in the mountains enjoying his family and friends (and making pies). Tom graduated from the University of Nevada-Reno in 1986 with a double major in Math & Education and a minor in Physics and is 4th generation Lake Tahoe.