Department of Entomology
The staff of the Department of Entomology is comprised
of research scientists, museum specialists and technicians employed by the Smithsonian Institution as well as those employed by "affiliated" agencies including the USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (DOD) and the Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology at Georgia Southern University.
All combined, the Entomology
staff numbers about 80
full-time permanent employees and
about 30 resident research associates, postdoctoral and predoctoral
fellows, students, and volunteers.
Staff in residence at NMNH are listed below. Click on names to enter SI staff pages, click on USDA logo to enter the SEL web site.
| SI Administraton | ||
| Terry L. Erwin | Department Chair and Research Entomologist: Coleoptera |
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| Juanita Hall | Secretary | |
| SI Research Entomologists | ||
| Sean Brady | Hymenoptera | |
| John M. Burns | Lepidoptera | |
| Jonathan A. Coddington | Arachnida & Myriapoda | |
| Donald R. Davis | Lepidoptera | |
| Oliver S. Flint, Jr. | Neuropteroids (emeritus) | |
| Wayne N. Mathis | Diptera | |
| Scott E. Miller | Lepidoptera | |
| Robert K. Robbins | Lepidoptera | |
| Ted R. Schultz | Hymenoptera | |
| F. Christian Thompson | Diptera (Adjunct Scientist) | |
| Rachelle Adams | SI Post-Doctoral Fellow: Hymenoptera | |
| M.Lourdes Chamorro-Lacayo | SI Postdoctoral Fellow: Coleoptera | |
| Christy Jo (CJ) Geraci | SI Post-Doctoral Fellow: Coleoptera | |
| Jason Hall | NSF Research Fellow: Lepidoptera | |
| Natasha Mehdiabadi | SI Post-Doctoral Fellow: Hymenoptera |
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| Ximo Mengual | SI Post-Doctoral Fellow: Diptera | |
| Shelah Morita | NSF Internat'l Research Fellow: Diptera | |
| Jadranka Rota | SI Post-Doctoral Fellow: Lepidoptera | |
| Scott Solomon | NSF Internat'l Research Fellow: Hymenoptera | |
| Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo | SI Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Hymenoptera | |
| SI Technical Staff | ||
| Karolyn Darrow | Scientific Illustrator & Web Site Manager | |
| Dana DeRoche | Museum Specialist: Arachnida & Myriapoda | |
| Deborah Feher | Museum Registration Systems Coordinator | |
| David Furth | Collections Manager | |
| Patricia Gentili-Poole | Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera | |
| Brian Harris | Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera & Hymenoptera | |
| Donald Harvey | Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera | |
| Lauren Helgen | Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera | |
| Gary Hevel | Museum Specialist: Coleoptera | |
| Jerry Louton | Information Specialist | |
| Vichai Malikul | Scientific Illustrator | |
| Cynthia Murphy Lancaster | Catalog Data Manager | |
| Eugenia Okonski | Museum Specialist: Hymenoptera | |
| Linda Sims | Information Specialist | |
| Desmond Smith | Museum Specialist: Collections Management | |
| Young Sohn | Scientific Illustrator | |
| Warren Steiner | Museum Specialist: Coleoptera | |
USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory Staff in Residence at NMNH
| Research Entomologists | ||
| John W. Brown | Lepidoptera | |
| Matthew L. Buffington | Hymenoptera | |
| Michael W. Gates | Hymenoptera | |
| Thomas J. Henry | Hemiptera (& Unit Leader) | |
| Alexander S. Konstantinov | Coleoptera | |
| Robert Kula | Hymenoptera | |
| Steven W. Lingafelter | Coleoptera | |
| Stuart H. McKamey | Homoptera | |
| Allen L. Norrbom | Diptera (& Unit Leader) | |
| Michael G. Pogue | Lepidoptera (& Location Leader) | |
| M. Alma Solis | Lepidoptera (& Research Leader) | |
| Norman E. Woodley | Diptera | |
| Raymond J. Gagne | Diptera (retired) | |
| David R. Smith | Hymenoptera (retired) | |
| Jens Prena | Coleoptera (Grant) | |
| Technical Staff | ||
| David N. Adamski | Support Scientist: Lepidoptera | |
| Elaine B. Jamison | Computer Assistant | |
| Jon A. (Buck) Lewis | Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera | |
| J. Marie Metz | Scientific Illustrator | |
| Mark A. Metz | Support Scientist: Lepidoptera | |
| Charyn Micheli | Museum Technician: Diptera | |
| Terry P. Nuhn | Museum Specialist: Hymenoptera | |
| Elisabeth P. Roberts | Museum Technician: Coleoptera | |
| Lucrecia H. Rodriguez | Museum Technician: Diptera | |
| Michele A. Touchet | Museum Technician: Hemiptera | |
| Natalia J. Vandenberg | Entomologist: Coleoptera | |
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