A ADAMS, NIKKI L. - effects of and defenses against ultraviolet (UV) radiation on reproduction and development of marine invertebrates; currently examining whether UV affects gametogenesis or accumulation of cellular defenses against UV radiation such as mycosporine-like amino acids and small molecule antioxidants in the gonads and gametes of the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis; investigating how these defenses might protect embryos and larvae of echinoderms against UV radiation. AGATSUMA, YUKIO - herbivorous-algae interaction; ecological studies on population dynamics of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus. ALBI, YVONNE Z. - a Paleocene echinoid from the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California. A newly noted schizasterid. ALI, MOHAMED SAID M. - study of some Jurassic and Cretaceous echinoids of Sinai, Egypt. ALLEN, JOHN A. - deep-sea benthos of the Atlantic. ALLISON, WILLIAM R.- I am a coral reef ecologist, and so am generally interested in Echinoderms. I have however, a particular interest in all facets of the life and times of Culcita spp. I am looking into the taxonomy and ecology of the species in Maldives, with special interest in its feeding ecology; completing research on reef survey methods and the status of Maldivian reefs. ALVA, VICTOR - trophic ecology of benthonic suspension organisms. ANDACHT, TRACY M. - studying the mechanism of dorsoventral polarity disruption and inhibition of fertilization envelope elevation by nickel chloride in the sea urchin embryo, Lytechinus variegatus. ANDERSEN, AASMUND - study of chemically induced predator responses on Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis. ANDERSON, OWEN - commercial fisheries research and marine ecology; population biology of commercial species of sea urchins in New Zealand, and the collection and identification of shallow water and deep-sea echinoderms. ANDERSON, ROLAND C. - an escape action of the asteroid Poraniopsis inflata in response to other sea stars. ARAKAKI, YUJI -Taxonomy of the sea urchin, Echinometra mathaei and E. oblonga. ARCHER, JEFFREY E. - head curator at Blue Zoo Beijing Aquarium in China in all aspects of curation (including shark husbandry and invertebrate culture). I am also presently working in the development of sea cucumber culture in New Zealand. ARONSON, RICHARD B. - patterns of predation on echinoderms in time and space from the tropics to Antarctica. ASHA, PAYIKAT - breeding, seed production and sea-ranching of sea cucumber Holothuria scabra. AUSICH, WILLIAM I. - early radiation and phylogeny of crinoids; crinoid classification; crinoid taphonomy; Lower Mississippian crinoid macroevolution. B BALSER, ELIZABETH J. - mechanisms of asexual reproduction in echinoderm larvae. BANGI, HELEN GRACE P. - culture and management of the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla; pilot testing of sea urchin grow-out culture in Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines. BARBOSA LEDESMA, ISRAEL FABRICIO - taxonomic study of Mexican sea urchin, particularly Family Cidaridae, species of Hesperocidaris. BARTSCH, ILSE - epi- and endozoa of ophiuroids. BASCH, LARRY V. - environmental effects on sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus) reproduction and development; influences of larval abundance and condition on settlement and recruitment of sea urchins; echinoderm larval nutrition; polar echinoid growth and secondary production; kelp forest ecology. BAUER, JOHN C. - Echinoid diseases and bacterial isolations from Bahamian bathyal sea urchins. BAUMILLER, TOMASZ K. - ecology and functional morphology of recent isocrinids; taphonomy of arms and stalks of articulates and advanced cladids vs. other Paleozoic taxa; diversity of Permian and Triassic crinoids and effects of the P/T extinction; patterns of turnover and extinction of Paleozoic crinoids; ecology of Seirocrinus; borings in Paleozoic pelmatozoans. BAZHIN, ALEXANDER - monitoring the condition of sea urchin populations (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, S. polyacanthus) along the Kamchatka peninsula shore. BEAVER, HAROLD H. - structure and function of blastoid summit plates. BECKER, JOHANN - marine invertebrates of Brazilian oceanic islands, including especially echinoderms. BEGBIE, KIRSTEN M. - studies on the hyponeural nervous system of the brittlestar, Ophiura ophiura. BELL, BRUCE M. - Edrioasteroids. BENAVIDES, MILENA - epifauna of the continental shelf of the Caribbean coast of Colombia (300 to 500 m). (thesis in progress). BENEJAM DE, CARLA - occurrence of brooding Amphiodia sp. in Monterey Bay (California). BENTLEY, ANDREW C. - biology of the sand dollar, Echinodiscus bisperforatus along the southeastern coast of South Africa, encompassing growth, reproduction, genetics, larval biology etc. BERENTS, PENELOPE B. - collection manager of marine invertebrates at the Australian Museum. BERGEN, MARY - The Southern Bight Pilot Project - a survey of soft bottom benthic communities between 10 & 200 m between Point Conception, California and the Mexican border. BERTRAM, DOUGLAS F. - evolution and ecology of modes of development in echinoids. BIERMANN, CHRISTIANE H. - Population genetic structure in the circumantarctic sea urchin genus Sterechinus; Reproductive isolation and population genetics in the Strongylocentrotidae (Echinoida); Camarodont phylogeny. BILLETT, DAVID S.M. - environmental impact on the deep sea; taxonomy of the genus Mesothuria (Holothurioidea). BIRENHEIDE, RUDIGER - morphology, physiology and biomechanics of crinoids. BIRKELAND, CHARLES E. - coral reef management. BIRYUKOVA, INGA V. - chemoreception; chemosensory systems and its morphogenesis in the marine invertebrates. BLAKE, DANIEL B. - Cretaceous asteroids of Texas; Ordovician stelleroids; stelleroids of Seymour Island. BLUHM, BODIL A. - age determination. BLUHM, HARTMUT - Holothuroidea as possible indicators for physical disturbance impacts in the deep sea. BOCKELIE, JOHAN F. - Rhombiferan cystoids, Scandanavia. BONASORO, FRANCESCO - regeneration of crinoids. BORRERO, GIOMAR - Taxonomy and distribution of echinoderms from 300-500 meters between Punta Gloria and Cape Tiburón (Caribbean Colombia). BORZONE, CARLOS A. - Matinhos sandy beach replenishment and its impact on the benthic macrofaunal nearshore community; echinoderms of Parana's coastal waters, Brazil. BOSCH, ISIDRO M. - UV effects on embryonic development of Antarctic and tropical echinoderms; Spawning periodicity of zebra mussels in New York's Finger Lakes. BOUDOURESQUE, CHARLES F. - effect of the invasive introduced alga Caulerpa taxifolia on Paracentrotus lividus: population dynamics and diet; long term changes of Paracentrotus lividus (sea urchin) populations in a protected area and a non-protected area. BOURGOIN, ALLAIN - studying the possibility of commercializing the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis on the northeastern coast of New Brunswick. BREGMAN, YURIY E. - Size-age structure and body growth studies of commercial sea urchins Strongylocentrotus intermedius and S. nudus at Japan Sea and Kuril Islands Coasts. BRETON, GERARD - Tethysian Saccocomid Cretaceous crinoids; Asteroid phylogeny - Mesozoic - Europe, Africa. BREY, THOMAS - Antarctic Echinoids: Diet, Growth. Antarctic Ophiuroids: Growth. Antarctic Asteroids: Diet, Population Dynamics. BROGGER, MARTIN I. - biodiversity of the South Atlantic Ocean invertebrates in the Buenos Aires province area; trophic ecology of primitive asteroids (Astropecten spps. and Luidia spps.) BROWER, JAMES C. - taxonomy, functional morphology, paleoecology, ontogeny and phylogeny of Ordovician crinoids and blastozoans from North America. BUITRON-SANCHEZ, BLANCA E. - Cenozoic echinoderms (Stelleroidea and echinoidea) from Baja California, Mexico. BURCH, BEATRICE L. - working on forams in gut of Chaetodiadema pallidum and in the surrounding sediments. BURNS, CASEY - three possible new species of echinoids from the Eocene of Oregon at the Burke Museum in Seattle. BUSSARAWIT, SOMCHAI - taxonomic study of echinoderms from the Andaman Sea, west coast of Thailand. BYRNE, MARIA - life history evolution, echinoderm reproduction and development, ophiuroid functional morphology, echinoderm fisheries. C CALTAGIRONE, ANGELA - sea urchin aquaculture. CAMERON, R. ANDREW - A promoter trap strategy for finding embryonic gene regulatory regions in the sea urchin genome; The spatial expression of known patterning genes in sea urchin larval development; A microsatellite analysis of homozygosity in an inbred line of sea urchins. CAMPBELL, ALAN - sea urchin population dynamics ecology and fisheries. CAMPBELL, ANDREW C. - zoogeography of Indian Ocean echinoderms. CAMPBELL, DAVID B. - feeding behavior of Asterias. CAMPOS-CREASEY, LUCIA S. - taxonomy of holothurians from the northeast coast of Brazil. CANDIA-CARNEVAL, M. DANIELA - crinoid arm regeneration; structure, physiology and biomechanics of complex musculo-skeletal systems (echinoid lantern, ophiuroid masticatory apparatus). CHAO, SHYH-MIN - population dynamics of the shallow-water holothurians of Taiwan; systematics of the echinoderms from Taiwan. CHEN, CHANG-PO - ontogenesis of skeletal plate patterns, gonad, and gonapores in the progenesive Sinaechinocyamus mai. CHIA, FU-SHIANG - retired - writing articles on environmental issues, particularly on marine environment. CHICCA, ANGIE - volunteer collector for Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. CLARK, ROGER N. - seastars of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (North Pacific) of the families Pterasteridae, Solasteridae, Myxasteridae, Goniasteridae. CLEMENTS, LEE ANN J. - effects of flow rate on skeletal regeneration in the burrowing brittlestar Ophiophragmus filograneus; gene expression during arm regeneration in two infaunal brittlestars: Microphiopholis gracillima and Ophiophragmus filograneus; larval toxicology - the effects of sublethal Zn exposure on larvae of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus. CLOUSE, RONALD M. - taxonomy and behavior of Bohadschia marmorata and B. bivittata (Holothuroidea) from Micronesia. COLON-JONES, D. ELIZABETH - rearing Diadema larvae; rearing coral larvae; studying the sediment regime on Biscayne National Park reefs; examining calcification rates of corals. CONAND, CHANTAL - Beche-de-Mer Bulletin 10 (No. 9 - 1997); holothurian fisheries (Indian Ocean, Madagascar); asexual reproduction in sea cucumbers; population biology of the sea urchin Colobocentrotus atratus; biodiversity of reef echinoderms (La Reunion). COSTELLO, MARK J. - developing a European Register of Marine Species (details at web site erms.biol.soton.ac.uk). CREASER, EDWIN P. - green sea urchin CPUE and management Maine. CRUMP, ROBIN G. - asteroid development and ecology. CUNHA DE JESUS, DORA MARIA - Seaweed harvest impact in echinoderm populations of SW coast of Portugal. D DAFNI, JACOB - echinoid growth. DALBY, JR., JAMES E. - Growth of arctic ophiuroids in relation to ice cover. DY, DANILO T. - I am presently working (my dissertation actually) on the "Nutrient interaction between macro-invertebrates and cultured seaweeds" with emphasis on echinoderm species commonly found in Philippine coral reefs. I tried to quantify the ammonium and phosphate excretions of the sea star, Protoreaster nodosus, the sea urchin, Tripneustes gratilla and the brittle star, Ophioarachna incrassata. I also plan to conduct a study on the effects of sea urchin density on the growth and photosynthesis of a cultured seaweed, Kappaphycus alvarezii and possibly quantify the role of echinoderms (specifically, sea urchins) in supplementing nutrients to the cultured seaweeds in coral reef platforms. DAVOULT, DOMINIQUE - Ecology and functioning (carbon and nitrogen fluxes at the water-sediment interface) in coastal benthic communities with special reference to a dominant species, the ophiuroid Ophiothrix fragilis (Abildgaard); interactions between physics (hydrodynamism) and biology (suspension-feeding behaviour) for metabolism and recruitment. DAYTON, PAUL K. - benthic ecology. DE RIDDER, CHANTAL J.M. - symbioses in echinoids; food and feeding mechanisms in echinoids; taxonomy and biogeography of Antarctic echinoids. DE WIT, WALTER M.J. - fossil echinoderms in fluviatile and ice-age deposits of Holland. DEAN, JULIETTE - Ordovician divergence of asteroids and ophiuroids. DEARBORN, JOHN H. - identification manual for NW Atlantic ophiuroids; Gulf of Maine ophiuroid ecology; crinoids and ophiuroids of the Antarctic; functional morphology of ophiuroid podia. DEBENHAM, PATTY - population genetics of the red sea urchin Strongylocentrotus franciscanus. DETWILER, PAUL - population dynamics of echinoids, phenotypic plasticity and life history variation among ecotypes, echinoid/coral interactions, microbial flora associated with echinoids. DEVIN, MICHAEL G. - Developing commercial sea urchin culture techniques (Aquaculture). DEWAEL, YANNICK - control mechanisms of bioluminescence in the ophiuroid Ophiopsila aranea (Forbes, 1843): morpho-physiological studies. PhD thesis (in progress, started in Oct 1998). DIEHL, WALTER J. - effects of environmental stress on multilocus heterozygosity-growth relationships in invertebrates. DOBSON, WILLIAM E. - population biology of Ophiura sarsi on continental slope off North Carolina; use of skeletal growth bands in ophiuroid ossicles as biological markers for sublethal predation and population ecology experiments. DOLMATOV, IGOR Y. - Regeneration mechanisms and their changes during individual development of echinoderms. DOMINGUEZ, PATRICIO - working on early echinoderms, especially Cambrian and Ordovician Pelmatozoans and Carpoids from Spain. DONOVAN, STEPHEN K. - Caribbean fossil echinoderms, including Pleistocene echinoids of Tobago and Barbados; Encope in the late Cenozoic of Jamaica; Miocene crinoids of Carriacou; Predatory decapitation of crinoids; British Ordovician crinoids. DORNBOS, STEPHEN Q.- paleoecology of helicoplacoids and other Cambrian suspension-feeding echinoderms (for Masters Thesis). DRUMM, DARRIN - researching traditional holothurian fishery in the Cook Islands. DRUMMOND, ANNE E. - intra and interspecific agnostic behaviour in echinoids; wave action and consequences for Echinometra mathaei, Stomopneustes variolaris, Diadema savignyi. DUPONT, SAMUEL - luminescence in Amphipholis squamata (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): a suitable model for studying microevolution (for PhD thesis). E EBERT, THOMAS A. - 1) Finishing work on growth and mortality of red and purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and S. purpuratus) along the west coast of North America. 2) The life-history consequences of the evolutionary timing of different modes of reproduction in ophiuroids. EBLE, GUNTHER J. - evolutionary dynamics in disasteroids, holasteroids and spatangoids; post-metamorphic spatangoid development; phylogeny of disasteroids, early holasteroids and early spatangoids. EEKELERS, DIRK - biodiversity and distribution of asteroids on the coral reefs of Kenya. ELISEIKINA, MARINA G. - Functions of echinoderms lectins; physiological and reparative regeneration of echinoderm internal organs. ELLERS, OLAF W. - growth of sand dollar teeth; catch collagen. EMLET, RICHARD B. - functional morphology of echinoderm larval evolution of echinoid life histories and development. ETNIER, SHELLEY - comatulid crinoids. ETTENSOHN, FRANK R. - Systematics, paleoecology and functional morphology of the pelagic crinoid Saccocoma; Paleoecology of a Late Ordovician crinoid garden community; Paleoecology of a Late Ordovician edrioasteroid firmground. EVDOKIMOV, VLADIMIR - Influence of ecological conditions on sea urchins ontogenesis in coastal communities. F FARMANFARMAIAN, A. VERDI - growth hormone and nitrogen retention. FAY, ROBERT O. - Ovachita Belt bibliography. FEDER, HOWARD M. - the deep benthic environment in Port Valdez, Prince William Sound, Alaska; the feeding biology of the sea star Pycnopodia helianthoides in Prince William Sound, Alaska; the deep benthos in Prince William sound 16 months after the Exxon Valdez oil spill; the macrofauna (infauna and epifauna--which includes large numbers of sea-star species) in the southeastern Chukchi Sea. FERAL, JEAN-PIERRE - structure of habitat and dispersal strategies; effects of developmental modes on genetic structure and evolutionary processes (mainly in echinoids - annelids and molluscs also used). FERGUSON, JOHN C. - madreporite functions and water volume relationships in echinoderms - currently on echinoids and holothuroids. FERNANDEZ, CATHERINE - growth, nutrition and biochemical composition of sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus in rearing fed with different types of artificial food. FERRIER, DREW - Ophiuroid ecology (distribution, feeding and behavior). FLAMMANG, PATRICK - Adhesion in echinoderms: An integrated study - biomechanical, morphological, molecular - of tube foot temporary adhesion, Cuverian tubule adhesion, and larval fixation. FOLLOSCO, MINDA P. - artificial culture of economically important sea cucumber. FORET, TIMOTHY W. - regeneration rates of Luidia in the field and the energetics of regenerative development; have begun thesis examining the prevalence of subcuticular bacteria in Gulf Coast (Florida) asteroids. FOSTER, MERRILL W. - Ordovician echinoderms from western Virginia; Atlantic Ocean brachiopods; Antarctic and subAntarctic brachipods; paleobiology of Pennsylvanian invertebrates in Illinois. FOX, DAVID J. - analysis of articulation in the arms of Ophiocoma echinata and Ophiocoma wendti. FRANKEL, EDGAR - coral reef lagoon sedimentation; coastal lakes, N.S.W.; volcanic ash - Mediterranean Sea; tectonics - eastern Mediterranean sea (ODP160). FREEMAN, STEVEN M. - Relationships between macro-epibenthic faunas and the seabed. Mapping benthic distributions using acoustic ground discrimination systems and GIS. Patterns in the geographical distribution of Echinoderms and their association with habitat complexity. FRONTANA URIBE, SARITA CLAUDIA - taxonomic and distributional study of invertebrates from Clipperton Island, including echinoderms. FUJITA, TOSHIHIKO - biology of Coscinasterias acutispina; ecology of Recent and fossil Ophiura sarsii; ophiuroid's vertebrae (morphology, age determination); taxonomy of ophiuroids and asteroids. FUKUYAMA, ALLAN K. - looking at recovery of intertidal invertebrates in Prince William Sound, Alaska following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and am particularly interested in molluscan and echinoderm assemblages and the contrast in recovery patterns between areas that were treated with hot-water, high pressure treatment with areas that were oiled and untreated. G GAGE, JOHN D. - deep-sea biology: shelf-edge benthic fluxes, and sediment community dynamics; deep-sea brittle star growth, spatial distribution and demographic modelling. GAGNON, JEAN-MARC - bioturbation by and foraging behaviour of deepwater echinoderms: observations in mesocosms. GALLEMI, JAUME - Cretaceous echinoids (Tethyan - worldwide); systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology. GARRISON, ROB - sea urchin aquaculture. GEBRUK, ANDREY V. - deep-sea holothurians (order Elasipodida and, in part, Family Synallactidae). GENTIL, FRANCK A. - population dynamics of ophiuroid species in soft-bottom community of the English Channel. GEORGE, SOPHIE B. - maternal effects on larval growth and development of echinoderms; morphological and behavioral responses of echinoderm larvae to salinity gradients. GIBSON, MICHAEL A. - continuing work on biotic interactions of Lower Devonian of West Tennessee; also studying traces of echinoids from the Coon Creek Formation (Cretaceous) and the tiering relationships present within the ichnofauna. GIL CID, DOLORES - Cambrain and Ordovician echinoderms and trilobites from Spain; palaecological aspects, morphology and function. GINANOVA, TALIA T. - Muscle regeneration in holothurians. GIUDICE, GIOVANNI - regulation of heat shock protein (hsp) synthesis in sea urchin embryos; apoptosis in sea urchin development; regulation of ribosomal RNA synthesis in sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) development. GIULIANO, LAURA - studying sea urchin interspecific relatioships. Particularly, I am interested in symbiotic and/or pathogenic bacteria colonizing the sea urchin (with special emphasis on Paracentrotus lividus, means species in the Mediterranean Sea), and any other kind of direct-indirect relations between bacteria and sea urchins (food during larval period, etc.). GLUCHOWSKI, EDWARD L. - Fammenian crinoids from the Holy Cross Mts, South Poland. GOGGIN, LOUISE C. - biological control of the northern Pacific seastar; Asterias amurensis in Australian waters. GOLDBERG, ARTHUR S. - investigating antiarthritic properties of echinoderms. GONGADZE, GURAM - Late Cretaceous and Paleogene echinoids of the Caucasus (classification, paleobiogeography, stratigraphy). GOODING, RICHARD U. - Animals associated with Caribbean diadematids; animals associated with diadematid echinoids, worldwide. GORCHAKOV, IGOR - Population ecology and ecophysiology of Asterias rubens (organismal, cellular, genetic) in the White Sea. GRABOWSKY-KAAIA, GAIL L. - Albatross recolonization project via the Audubon Society and HI Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. GREENSTEIN, BENJAMIN J. - taphonomy of crown-of-thorns starfish; comparative taphonomy of caribbean reefs; mode of formation of Pliocene shell beds. GREENWOOD, AMY - Reproductive cycle of Asterina phylactica; Population dynamics, brooding success and juvenile growth rates of A. phylactica in Lough Hyne; Seasonality of echinoderm plankton; Fertilization kinetics in Marthasterias glacialis. GROSJEAN, PHILIPPE - Biology of the European violet sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus under intensive cultivation. GROVES, CATHY - Heliaster biogeography and systematics. GRYGIER, M.J. - 1) identification of a few samples of Myzostomida sent by colleagues (G.Hendler, I. Kogo); 2) trying to isolate and identify a common, ophiuroid-infesting copepod from California, discovered by Gordon Hendler. 3) evaluating the possibility of posthumously publishing the late Paul Illg's decades-long study of two undescribed species of the ascothoracidan crustacean genus Dendrogaster, which infest several starfishes in the Pacific Northwest. GUENSBURG, THOMAS E. - edrioasteroids, early crinoids, paleoecology of echinoderms. GUERRAZZI, MARIA C. - natural history and the feeding behavior of the starfish Echinaster brasiliensis. GUILLOU, MONIQUE - REPRODUCTION/RECRUITMENT: responses of sea-urchin population to environmental changes; BIODIVERSITY: seaweed-urchin interaction . GURREA, ISIDRO - echinoids from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic age, Mediterranean region (specifically Western Europe). GUTT, JULIAN - polar benthos ecology. H HADEL, VALERIA FLORA - Biology and ecology of echinoderms. HAGEN, NILS T. - sea urchin outbreak dynamics: ecological interactions in a macroparasite/sea urchin/kelp forest system. Echiniculture/closed cycle cultivation of sea urchins: broodstock management, photoperiodic control of gametogenesis, growth, feeding, design of cultivation equipment. HAMEL, JEAN-FRANCOIS - I am currently working on the ecology of juveniles and adults of the tropical sea cucumber Holothuria scabra in the Solomon Islands, and on the northern sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa in the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary, eastern Canada. My main fields of research include chemical ecology, reproductive biology, spawning, settlement and daily cycles (movement, feeding, etc.). HAMZA HASSAN, MOHAMED - ecology and biology of echinoderms from Gulf of Suez - Red Sea. HAND, CLAUDIA - conducting stock assessments and biological studies for our local west coast species of sea cucumber, Parastichopus californicus, distribution, abundance and productivity. HAUDE, REIMUND - stratigraphy and constructional morphology od scyphocrinoids; Devonian and Carboniferous holothuroids; Lower Devonian echinoderms of Argentina. HAVARDSSON, BJORGOLFUR - the effect of caroteins in feed and environmental temperature on the gonad color and gonad development of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis (Mueller, 1776). The purpose of the experiment is to develop feed suitable for controlling the quality of the urchin gonad in echinoculture. HEINZELLER, THOMAS E. - comparative, mainly neuroanatomical, morphology (TEM, histochem.) of crinoids with special attention to milleri-, bourgeti- and cyrtocrinids; entoparasitic myzostomids of crinoids, mutual effects on host and parasite on an ultrastructural basis. HENDLER, GORDON - behavior and functional morphology of deep-sea ophiuroids; taxonomy of Okinawan ophiuroids (with S. Irimura); systematics and natural history of eastern Pacific ophiuroids. HERDENDORF, CHARLES E. - invertebrate fauna associated with deep-sea (>2000 m) shipwrecks; invertebrate fauna of New Zealand (North Island) estuaries and tidal flats; brisingid fauna of North Atlantic Ocean; echinoid (esp. sand dollars) invasion of New Zealand estuaries following diversion of freshwater inflow. HESS, HANS - New starfish from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of northern Switzerland; Crinoid ossicles from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian of Arzo, Switzerland; Remains of Saccocomids from the Upper Jurassic of Germany (Sieverts-Doreck collection, on loan from Stuttgart Museum). HICKMAN, JR., CLEVELAND P. - Development of field guides for the identification of Galapagos marine invertebrate life. HIGHSMITH, RAYMOND C. - intertidal studies in Cook Inlet, Alaska. HILBUN, NANCY L. - Echinoderms of Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico for masters thesis. HILL, ROBERT B. - Local degeneration in sea cucumber body wall. Close apposition of cells in holothuroid LMBW. HOBERG, MAX K. - investigating the feeding biology of the sea star Pycnopodia helianthoides from eelgrass habitats in Prince William Sound following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. HODGSON, ALAN N. - spermatozoan morphology of Patiriella. HOFFMAN, JENNIFER - interactive effects of ultraviolet radiation and temperature in echinoid embryos; variations in UV sensitivity among echinoid species and populations; effects of and defenses against UV in echinoid embryos. HOLTERHOFF, PETER F. - Late Paleozoic crinoid paleoecology and systematics; P-Tr extinction and eradication of the Crinoidea. HOOPER, ROBERT G. - aquaculture of Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis. HOSHI, MOTONORI - molecular mechanism of sperm-egg interactions in starfish and sea urchins; structure and function of glycosphingolipids in starfish and sea urchins; 1-methyladenine signal transduction in starfish oocytes. HOTCHKISS, FREDERICK H.C. - echinoderm pentamerism; teratology of sea stars; Paleozoic ophiuroid morphology, evolution and classification; isolated ophiuroid vertebrae and ossicles, Devonian, Bohemia (with Petr and Prokop); new Canadian finds of Ordovician stelleroids (with D.M. Rudkin); ophiuroids from Upper Windsor Group, Mississippian, Nova Scotia (with P. von Bitter). HOTTENROTT, SUSAN I. - Dissertation research on the phylogeny of the family Ophiolepididae using morphological features and perhaps sequences. Revision of the genus Ophiomusium. Phylogenetic approach to studying the origin of deep-sea ophiuroid genera. I ILAN, MICHA - the study of sponge chemical (and structural) defenses against echinoderm predators; echinoderms which live in association with sponges; the impact of coral reef sea urchins on corals recruitment. IRIMURA, SEIICHI - taxonomy of Japanese Ophiuroidea; SEM observation on disk granules of Ophiuroidea; vertebra form of Ophiuroidea. IVY, W. GRISILDA - seed production and sea ranching of sea cucumbers. J JABLONSKI, DAVID - onshore-offshore and latitudinal patterns in the origins of higher taxa, and their subsequent shifts in environmental and latitudinal distribution; studying post-Paleozoic echinoids and stalked crinoids; studying mainly molluscan but some echinoid mass extinction and recovery patterns, especially at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. JACOBSEN, NANCY A. - identification and logging of occurrences of invertebrates, vertebrates and geologic features in the Monterey Bay; working especially with asteroidea analysis (WWW images and information will be available in the near future). JAECKLE, WILLIAM B. - nutrient distribution among tissue in planktonic larvae of echinoderms; asexual reproduction by asteroid larvae; sites and mechanisms of nutrient assimilation by larvae. JAGT, JOHN W.M. - Latest Cretaceous-early Palaeogene echinoderms (holothurians excepted) from type area of the Maastrichtian Stage; late Maastrichtian echinoderm- 'lagerstatte' with bourgueticrinine crinoids and ophiolepidid and ophiacanthid ophiuroids; high-diversity ophiuroid faunas of Campanian and Maastrichtian age from northeast Germany (with M. Kutscher). JAMES, DANIEL B. - Seed production and culture of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra. JAMIESON, GLEN S. - sea urchin abundance surveys; near-shore community population dynamics. JANIES, DANIEL A. - phylogenetic analyses of the evolution of development among asteroids. JEFFERIES, RICHARD P. S. - The origin of tunicates on the basis of fossil evidence. JEFFERY, CHARLOTTE H. - Maastrichtian and Palaeocene echinoids; larval strategy in recent and fossil Temnopleuroid echinoids. JELL, PETER A. - Australian Palaeozoic echinoderms. Just completing a volume of Memoirs of the Queensland Museum which will include:- Silurian and Devonian crinoids of Victoria; Lower Devonian echinoderms (crinoids, blastoids asterozoans) of the Bokkeveld Series in South Africa; Upper Devonian crinoids of the Canning Basin, WA; latest Ordovician to Devonian carpoids of Victoria (4 papers with Marcello Ruta); Carboniferous and Permian crinoids of Australia (2 papers with Gary Webster). JOHNSEN, SONKE - absorption spectra of echinoderm visual pigments. JUINIO-MENEZ, ANNETTE R. - culture and population genetics of marine invertebrates (sea urchin); development of mass culture techniques for Tripneustes gratilla. JUNQUEIRA, ANDREA O.R. - population dynamics of echinoids.