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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
Ted R. Schultz Department Chair and
Research Entomologist: Hymentoptera
Juanita Hall Secretary
   

SI Research Entomologists
Sean Brady Hymenoptera
John M. Burns Lepidoptera (emeritus)
Jonathan A. Coddington Arachnida & Myriapoda (& ADRC)
Donald R. Davis Lepidoptera
Terry L. Erwin Coleoptera
Oliver S. Flint, Jr.  Neuropteroids (emeritus)
Wayne Mathis Diptera (emeritus)
Scott E. Miller Lepidoptera
Robert K. Robbins Lepidoptera
F. Christian Thompson Diptera (Adjunct Scientist)
Rachelle Adams SI Post-Doctoral Fellow: Hymenoptera 
Simone Cappellari SI Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Hymenoptera 
Jason Hall NSF Research Fellow: Lepidoptera
Ximo Mengual SI Post-Doctoral Fellow: Diptera
Shelah Morita NSF Internat'l Research Fellow: Diptera
Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo NMNH Peter Buck Pre-Doctoral Fellow
SI Technical Staff
Erin Kolski Museum Specialist: Diptera & Neuroptera
Karie Darrow Digital Imaging Specialist & Web Site Manager
      Dana DeRoche Museum Specialist: Arachnida & Myriapoda
Debbie Feher Museum Registration Systems Coordinator
David Furth Collections Manager
Patricia Gentili-Poole Deputy Collections Manager
Brian Harris   Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera & Hymenoptera
Don Harvey Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera
Lauren Helgen Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera
Gary Hevel Museum Specialist: Coleoptera (emeritus)
Vichai Malikul Scientific Illustrator
Charyn Micheli Museum Specialist: Coleoptera
Cindy Murphy Lancaster Catalog Data Manager
Eugenia Okonski Museum Specialist: Hymenoptera
Floyd Shockley Museum Technician: Collections Management
Linda Sims Retired as of 30 Sept 2011
Desmond Smith Museum Specialist: Collections Management
Young Sohn Scientific Illustrator

 


Systematic Entomology Lab LogoUSDA 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
Elaine B. Jamison Computer Assistant
Jon A. (Buck) Lewis Museum Specialist: Lepidoptera
Taina Litwak Scientific Illustrator
Mark A. Metz Support Scientist: Lepidoptera
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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