RTP Alumni Directory

Updated: 21 July 2008

Alphabetical Listing
(1980 - 2008)
of all 536 RTP alumni

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Amy Adams
. 1994. University of Puget Sound (Biology, 1996). RAPD Population Genetics of the Meloena corona Complex. Dr. M.G. Harasewych, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Employed by the University of Puget Sound as a Teaching Assistant (1995). Employed by the Woodland Park Zoo in Washington as a keeper aide volunteer. - - RTP Project Summary.


April Christine Adams (Rollins). 1988. Hope College. Compositae Curation. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. Employed by the Pathophysiology Lab at the Institute of Infectious Diseases conducting research on snake venom.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kristin Adams. 2008. Univeristy of Wisconsin, Whitewater (Biological Sciences and Geology, 2009). The Big Picture of Microfossils: Using Foraminifera to Study Global Warming. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. NSF Earthtime Grant. - - RTP Project Summary.


Sally Adkins. 1993. University of Missouri - St Louis. Paleohabitat and Morphology of Foraminifer Bifarina alabamensis. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Program Assistant (1994). NMNH Contractor, Dept. of Botany (1993 - 1997). NMNH Field Assistant, Guyana (1996).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Ana Agreda
. 1999. Catholic University (Quito, Ecuador). Examination of microscopic feather characters in plumulaceous barbules of Anatidae (tribes Aythyini vs. Antini): a comparison of diving and dabbling ducks. Dr. Carla Dove, Vertebrate Zoology - Birds. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Garrett John Alberico. 1990. University of North Dakota. Botanical Art Collection. Alice Tangerini, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. Employed by Interpretive Gardens (1995).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Amanda Albright (Olsen). 2000. Juniata College (Geology, 2001). Origin of epidote in granitic pegmatites of the Ricon pegmatite district of southern California. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). Ph.D. 2007. Virginia Tech. Geology. "Mineral dissolution rates in water." Cunningham Fellowship from Virginina Tech. NMNH short-term visitor (2001).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Joaquin Aldabe
. 2004. Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. A study of the morphological adaptations and the feeding habits of the Scimitar-Billed Woodcreeper (Drymornis bridgesii). Dr. Carla Dove, Vertebrate Zoology - Birds. Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Laura Aldrich-Wolfe
. 1993. University of California - Santa Barbara (Ecology and Evolution, 1994). Establishing the Eurasian Origins of North American Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula complex). Dr. Elizabeth Zimmer, Molecular Systematics Laboratory.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Ph.D. 2001. Cornell University. Botany. "Mycorrhizas and tropical forest regeneration." National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1996). Employed by Science Applications International Corporation as a Botanist. - - RTP Project Summary.


Mary Evalina Alexander. 1983. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Algae Curation. Dr. Jim Norris, Botany. Deceased.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Mac Haverson Alford. 1997. Mississippi College (Biological Science & Chemistry, 1997). A new species of Commelina (Commelinaceae) from Tanzania. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany.
Mellon Fellow. MS. 1999. Duke University, transferred to Cornell University. Botany. Ph.D. 2002 Cornell University. "Systematics of the Prockieae (Flacortiaceae)." - - RTP Project Summary.


Saleem Hassan Ali. 1992. Tufts University (Chemical & Environmental Studies, 1994). Medicinal Plants of the Philippines / Commelinaceae Projects. Dr. Robert DeFilipps and Robert Faden, Botany. MS. 1996. Yale University. "Water scarcity and environmental degradation in South Africa." Ph.D. 2000. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Environmental planning at uranium mines." Fieldwork at The Centre for Rainforest Studies in Queensland, Australia. Baker Foundation Research Fellowship at Harvard Business School. Parliamentary internship at the U.K. House of Commons. Employed by GE as an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist (1995-1997). Served as consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Health Canada as an Associate at the Boston-based consulting firm Industrial Economics Inc. Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (with joint appointment at the School of Natural Resources) - University of Vermont (current). Adjunct faculty member of the Watson Institute for International Studies - Brown University (current). Pro bono projects include a mining impact prospectus for the Crowe Tribe of Montana and research assistance to Cultural Survival (an indigenous rights NGO). Currently coordinating project activities pertaining to mining and the environment - USAID's regional environmental initiative for Africa (www.frame-web.org). Teaching experience includes courses on environmental planning, conflict resolution, industrial ecology, research methods and technical writing. Author of the book Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts The University of Arizona Press (Expected date of publication: November 2003).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Lawrence A. Alice. 1986. Southern Illinois University. Small Family Curation. George Russell, Botany. MS. 1986. Southern Illinois University. "Vascular flora of Ripple Hollow and selected fleshy fungi." Ph.D. 1997. University of Maine. "Molecular phylogenetic systematics of Rubus (Rosaceae)." Peace Corps Volunteer - Niger (1989 - 1992). Previously employed by Virginia Tech University as a post-doctoral fellow working on molecular systematics of Poaceae. Employed by Western Kentucky University as an assistant professor of Botany. NMNH Short Term Visitor. Presented a paper at the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons Sydney, Australia (1998).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Glenn Almany. 1995. San Francisco State University. A New Atlantic Species of Acanthemblemaria (Teleostei: Blennioidei: Chenopsidae): Morphology and Relationships. Dr. Dave Johnson, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1996). MS. 1999. Oregon State University.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Liz Alter. 1996. Yale University (Physical Anthropology and Organismal Biology, 1997). A reexamination of flexure in the mandibular ramus as an indicator of sexual dimorphism. Dr. David Hunt and Dr. Douglas Owsley, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Employed as a Biology teacher in Egypt (1997). NMNH contractor, Anthropology (2000).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Anthony Alvarez
. 2004. University of California, Santa Barbara. GIS prediction of the outcrop area of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Dr. Scott Wing, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-0243512).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jorge Alvarez
. 2006. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Reconstructing a Permian Tropical Forest: Vegetational Compositions and Patterns of Herbivory. Dr. William DiMichele and Dr. Conrad Labandeira., Paleobiology. Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund.- - RTP Project Summary.


Chris Amato
. 1993. Queens College (Geology, 1993). Magmatic Evolution of Gabbroic Pegmatite from the Belmont Diabase, Culpeper Basin, Virginia. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). MS. 1996. Indiana University. "Strain aureole surrounding granitic intrusion."
- - RTP Project Summary.


Michelle C. Anderson. 1992. Western Washington University. The Systematic Implications of Seed Morphology in Central American Species of Heliconia. Dr. W. John Kress, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Program Assistant (1993). Employed by Thurston Conservation District as a Conservationist.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Robert Anderson. 1993. Kansas State University (Biology, 1994). Taxonomy of the Sloths of Bocas del Toro, Panama. Dr. Charles Handley, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. MS. 1998. University of Kansas. Ph.D. 2001. University of Kansas. "Systematics and biogeographic modeling of spiny pocket mice (Rodentia: Heteromyidae: Heteromys) in South America." National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship. One year in Colombia on a Fulbright Scholarship (1995). NMNH Short Term Visitor (1996, 1998, 2000). Employed as a curatorial Assistant at the Kansas University Natural History Museum (1996).
Postdoctoral Fellow. American Museum of Natural History (2000 - 2003). Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the City College of New York (CCNY) (2003 - present) - - RTP Project Summary.


William D. Anderson. 1988. University of South Carolina. Fish Species Redescription. Dr. Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes.
Ph.D. Ichthyology. Employed by Grice Marine Biological Laboratory, Charleston, South Carolina. NMNH Short Term Visitor (2002). - - RTP Project Summary.


Hector Angarita. 2000. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia) (Biology, 2001). Differentiation of Colombian Platyrrhinus saussure (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Dr. Alfred Gardner, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Employed as a bilingual teacher at a prestigious private bilingual school in Bogota, Colombia (2003). - - RTP Project Summary.


Gary W. Angelo. 1991. University of Maryland. Rare and Endangered Lichens Project. Dr. Mason Hale and Sherry Pittam, Botany. MS. 1997. New York University. Molecular Biology. Employed by Mount Sinai Medical Center as a research coordinator.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jennifer L. Apple. 1992. University of Puget Sound. Field Research in the Mangroves of Belize. Dr. Klaus Ruetzler, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Ph.D. 2000. University of Utah. "The effects of variation in resource availability on an ant-caterpillar mutualism and its impact." Ph.D. research done at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Barro Colorado Island. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship. NMNH Contractor (1993 & 1994).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Susan Aragon (Carrasco). 1993. Universidad Nacional San Antonio (Cusco, Peru). Systematics Implications of Pollen Morphology in Heliconia (sections Tortex and Farinosum). Dr. W. John Kress, Botany.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 2000. University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. "Hummingbird pollinated plants (orchids) along the elevational gradient." OTS Fellowship / Participant. - - RTP Project Summary.


Fabiola Areces. 1996. University of Habana (Habana, Cuba) (Biology, 1997). Preliminary survey of the pollen of Passiflora species found in Cuba. Dr. Joan Nowicke, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern. MS. Ph.D. 2000. University of Habana (Habana, Cuba). Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Barry Wayne Argo. 1988. Florida State University. Compositae Curation. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany.
Employed by The Nature Conservancy, Disney Wilderness Preserve, Kissimmee, Florida (2001). - - RTP Project Summary.


Julie Arington. 1995. Murray State University - Western Kentucky. Biological Diversity of the Guianas project. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Deokie Arjoon. 1998. University of Guyana (Biology, 1998). A GIS analysis of the fishes of Guyana. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany; Dr. P. Vari, Ichthyology. Employed by University of Guyana.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Emily Armgardt
. 2006. Seattle University. Ontogenetic Changes in Shell Microstructure of Freshwater Gastropods from Lake Tanganyika (Cerithioidea, Paludomidae). Dr. Ellen Strong, Invertebrate Zoology. Alice Eve Kennington Intern.- - RTP Project Summary.


Sudha Arunachalam. 2000. University of Southern California (Linguistics, 2001). Phonological variation in Menominee. Dr. Ives Goddard, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
Ph.D. 2007. University of Pennsylvania. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2001). - - RTP Project Summary.


Neil Aschliman
. 2004. Texas A&M University. Morphological studies of fish in Zenarchopteridae. Dr. Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes.
Alice Eve Kennington Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Arden Ashley
. 2004. Macalester College. Evolution in action?: analysis of presumed hybrids and parent stocks of the US east coast sand dollar genera Encope and Mellita. Dr. Dave Pawson, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-0243512).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Alexandra Audet. 1992. McGill University. Biology of the Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus). Brian Robbins, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NZP intern (1993). NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). MS. 1995. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Entomology.
- - RTP Project Summary.



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Erin Baker. 1996. University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) (Biochemistry, 1999). Systematic assessment of the Red Sea - Northern Indian Ocean population of Scomber japonicus. Dr. Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Christopher McNeil Bailey. 1986. College of William and Mary. Rosaceae/Chenopodaceae Curation. George Russell, Botany. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. "The deformation of the earth's crust.
" - - RTP Project Summary.


Cynthia Balthazar. 1986. San Diego Mesa College. Marine Algae Curation. Dr. Jim Norris, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Phillip Barden. 2008. Arizona State University (Biology, 2009). Diversity of leaf-litter Pheidole in Guyana: DNA barcoding and Auto-Montage digital images. Dr. Ted Schultz, Entomology. Smithsonian Latino Initiatives. - - RTP Project Summary.


Kimberly Ann Barker (Brugman). 1985. Ohio Wesleyan University. Bamboo Species List. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. NMNH Inventory Technician (1985-1987). NMNH Technician, Division of Fishes (1987). Employed as a Methodist Minister.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Madison Barkley
. 2006. Mount Holyoke College. F-OH- Substitution and Thermal Effects on the Crystal Structure of Pegmatitic Topaz. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Patricia L. Barlow. 1986. University of New Mexico. Bamboo Bar Coding/Computer. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. Ph.D. 2003. University of New Mexico. "The taxonomic status of species within the Cirsium arizonicum complex." Employed by the University of New Mexico - Curator of the Herbarium (1986 - 1990). Currently independently pursuing research intererests in botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Katherine Elaine Bash. 1997. University of Texas (Biology, 1997). Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of a coastal scrub ecosystem in southern California. Dr. John Brown, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Fulbright Scholarship to conduct biodiversity studies in Ecuador. NMNH collaborations conducting field research in Brazil with SI Research Associate.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Ryan Bavis. 1994. St. Mary's College of Maryland (Biology, 1995). Developing mitochondrial DNA PCR primers for use in phylogenetic studies of avian museum specimens. Dr. Michael Braun, Molecular Systematics Laboratory. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). NMNH Short Term Visitor, LMS (1994 & 1995). Second Summer Opportunity 1995. The identification of Branta bernicla subspecies using cytochrome b mitochondrial DNA. Dr. Mike Braun and Travis Glenn, Laboratory of Molecular Systematics. Ph.D. University of Montana. Avian physiology. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1997).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Karen Beard. 1993. University of California - Berkeley (Molecular and Cell Biology, 1994). Variation in the Distribution of Group I Introns in the Lichen: Cladina subtenuis. Dr. Paula DePriest, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). MS. 1996. Yale University. School of Forestry. "The effects of landscape on the population genetic structure of the wood frog." Ph.D. 2001. Yale University. Conservation Biology. NMNH Short Term Visitor.
- - RTP Project Summary.


John M. Bell. 1982. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Anatomy of the bamboo Aulonemia. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. MS. University of North Carolina. Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Roberto Bello. 1994. Michigan State University. Description of a new species of leptodactylid frog from the Guyana Highlands of Venezuela. Dr. Roy McDiarmid, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Second Summer Opportunity (1995). Description of a new species of leptodactylid frog from the Guyana Highlands of Venezuela. Dr. Roy McDiarmid, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley. Herpetology.
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1996). - - RTP Project Summary.


Andrea Berger. 2000. Wesleyan University. The utilization of postcranial discriminate functions for NAGRPA compliance. Dr. Steve Ousley, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Christine J. Bertels (Bates). 1987. George Washington University (Environmental Studies, 1989). Marine Algae Curation. Dr. Jim Norris, Botany. NMNH Contractor, Department of Botany, Marine Algae (1988-1989). Employed by the National Park Service, Big Cypress National Preserve, as a Hydrological Technician (1995).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kelly Ann Berube. 1988. University of Massachusetts. Study and Organization of SEM Negatives and Prints of Gesneriaceae Seeds. Dr. Laurence Skog, Botany. Employed by School of Molecular & Medical Biosciences, University of Wales.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Aimee D. K. Betts. 1994. Albertson College of Idaho (Biology & History, 1996). Origins of African tree squirrels. Dr. Richard Thorington, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Smithsonian Minority Fellowship (1995). Forelimb Musculature of Tree squirrels. Dr. Richard Thorington, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NMNH Short Term Visitor (1996). National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1996). Ph.D. 2002. University of California - Berkeley. "Ecology of invasive species." Employed by UC Berkeley teaching outdoor environmental courses to at-risk students (1999).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Areo A. Biodun. 1985. University of Lagos (Nigeria). African Plant Family Curation. George Russell, Botany. MS. 1989. University of Lagos (Nigeria). Ethnobotanical Studies. Employed by National Museum of Lagos, Nigeria - Curator of the Museum and Chief Botanist.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Todd Blackledge. 1994. George Washington University (Biology, 1994). A study of the phylogenetic position of an apparently undescribed characiform fish of the family Curimatidae from western portions of the Amazon basin in Ecuador. Dr. Richard Vari, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. Ph.D. 1999. Ohio State University. Entomology (spiders).
Employed as a professor in animal behavior at University of Akron (2004). - - RTP Project Summary.


Sydella Blatch. 1999. University of Maryland, College Park. Systematic analysis of MesoAmerican Meromacrus flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with a description of a new species. Dr. F. Christian Thompson, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Elizabeth Bollwerk. 2003. Notre Dame University (Anthropology, 2004). Southwest Ethnographic Research and Documentation Project. Dr. Risa Diemond Arbolino, Anthropology - Repatriation.
- - RTP Project Summary.

Linda Boose (Styer). 1997. University of Delaware (Biology, 1997). Phylogenetic analysis of the New World genus Accinctapubes Solis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Epipaschiinae). Dr. M. Alma Solis, Entomology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 2000. University of California - Davis. Ph.D. 2003. University of California - Davis. Medical Entomology. Employed by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories as a Biological Process Technician. - - RTP Project Summary.


Alex Borissenko. 1993. Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). Morphology of Female Reproductive Tracts in Vespertilionoid Bats; with comments on it's functional and phylogenetic implications. Dr. Don Wilson, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. MS. 1994. Lomonosov State University (Moscow, Russia). Employed by the Zoological Museum of Moscow University as a Research Assistant (1995). NMNH Short Term Visitor (1996).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Michael L. Borkholder. 1986. Eastern Mennonite College. Small Family Curation / Carnivorous Plants. George Russell, Botany. Employed as a high school biology teacher.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Margaret Claire Boulay. 1988. Furman University. Mammalian Species Account. Brian Robbins, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. MS. 1992. University of Florida, Gainesville.
- - RTP Project Summary.

Leah Bowanko (Clark). 1988. James Madison University (Biology, 1989). Flora of the Guianas. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. MS. 1991. Duke University. Forestry. Employed by the USDA Forest Service (1995). - - RTP Project Summary.


Matthew Brandley. 2000. University of Oklahoma (Evolutionary Biology, 2001). The phylogenetic relationships of the Anolis cristatellus species group based on external and skeletal characters. Dr. Kevin de Queiroz, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). MS. (2003). San Diego State University. Evolutionary Biology, Herpetology. NMNH Short Term Visitor (2001).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Michael Brewer. 1994. University of Missouri - Columbia (Geology, 1994). The volcano-climate connection. Dr. Jim Luhr, Mineral Sciences.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 1998. University of Arizona. Geochemistry/Hydrogeology. - - RTP Project Summary.


Heather Yasmin Briggs. 1989. George Washington University. Systematics of Porcupine Rats. Dr. Charles Handley, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. Educational Outreach Intern.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kay Brockman (Brockman-Mederas). 1984. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (Wildlife Management, 1984). Gramineae Curation. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. NMNH Contractor, Smithsonian Bamboo Research Project (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) (1985). Peace Corps Volunteer - Costa Rica (1986-1989). Employed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as a Wildlife Biologist.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Julia Brown
. 2006. Vanderbilt University. Body size evolution in deep-sea ostracodes. Dr. Gene Hunt, Paleobiology. Private Donation. - - RTP Project Summary.


Megan Brown
. 2004. Arizona State University. Why is 433 Eros depleted in sulfur?: using meteorites to test competing ideas. Dr. Tim McCoy, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-0243512).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Michael Brown. 1988. Colorado College. Marine Algae Studies. Dr. Mark Littler, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Laura Burrows. 1993. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. An Evaluation of Insect-Mediated Herbivory in an Upper Pennsylvanian Flora. Dr. Conrad Labandeira, Paleobiology. James Smithson Society Intern. Employed by the Aerospace Education Center as an Education Coordinator (1995).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Carlos Bustamante. 1994. University of Miami. Genetic Comparison of two Nemertean populations using 165 mtDNA and 28s DNA. Dr. Jon Norenburg, Invertebrate Zoology. Second Summer Opportunity. 1995. Harvard University. The History and Evolution of male/female difference in immune reactivity. Dr. Don Ortner, Anthropology. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1997). Ph.D. University of Chicago. Anthropology.
- - RTP Project Summary.



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Jessica Danielle Cafarella. 1997. Duke University (Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, 1998). Scurvy in archaeological human remains from the American Southwest. Dr. Donald J. Ortner, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Employed by an HMO translating scientific articles. - - RTP Project Summary.


David Michael Cameron. 2002. Pepperdine University. A New Species of African Cyanotis (Commelinaceae). - - Virtual Poster. Robert Faden, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). - - RTP Project Summary.


Kenneth Michael Cameron. 1988. Rhodes College. Flora of the Guianas. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. MS. University of North Carolina. Botany. Ph.D. NMNH Contractor. Received The George R. Cooley Award (1996). This award is given annually by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists for the best contributed paper in plant systematics presented at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America. Received The Katherine Esau Award (1996). This award is given to the graduate student who presents the outstanding paper in developmental and structural botany at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Joshua W. Campbell. 1997. Auburn University (Zoology, 1998). Evaluation of the genus Pecopteris foliage of Pennsylvanian and Permian age. Dr. William A. DiMichele, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Ph.D. University of Chicago.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Mariel Lee Campbell (Brunt). 1989. University of New Mexico. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. Dr. Roy McDiarmid, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Educational Outreach Intern. MS. 1995. University of California - Davis. "Systematics/ biogeography of South American marsupials." Employed by University of New Mexico as a professor of biology.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Nicole Campos. 1999. California State University - Sacramento. Identifying Etowah site funerary objects based on material criteria. Dr. Paula Molloy, Anthropology - Repatriation. LSAMP Intern.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kerri Michelle Carlson. 1997. Miami University (Anthropology, 1998). Determining the biological affiliation of human remains: an assessment of available techniques. Dr. Thomas W. Killion and Dr. Paula Molloy, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Ph.D. 2004. Duke University. Genetics.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Julie E. Carlton. 1991. University of Arizona (Geology, 1992). Paleoecological Analysis of Pennsylvania Strata from Roaring Creek, Indiana. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 1995. University of Pennsylvania. "Fossil floras of the Dunkard Formation." Dr. William DiMichele is the thesis co-advisor. NMNH Short Term Visitor and Contractor (1993, 1994, and 1995). Employed by Atlantic Community College as a teacher (1995). - - RTP Project Summary.


Carrie L. Carrel. 1991. New College of University of South Florida. Limited Character Taxonomy and Cytological Vouchers in Tradescantia. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern. NMNH Short Term Visitor. MS. University of Washington. Environmental Health.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Mark G. Carter. 1990. Tufts University (Biology/Environmental Studies, 1991). Cuticle Studies from Angiosperm Fossils/Paleobotanical Studies in Wyoming. Dr. Scott Wing, Paleobiology. Educational Outreach Intern. Ph.D. 2000. John Hopkins University. Human Genetics.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Murilo Carvalho
. 2002. University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Revision of Hypostomus species of the streams in the upper Rio Parana basin on the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). - - Virtual Poster. Richard Vari, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. Alice Eve Kennington Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Emilia M. Casillas. 1991. New Mexico State University. Ethnobotanical Conservation. Dr. Robert DeFilipps, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern. NMNH Contractor (1993). Employed by Americorps (1998).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Amanda Cass. 2003. Mount Holyoke College (Biological Sciences and History, 2004). The Phylogeny of Pleuronectiformes: A Reanalysis of Existing Hypotheses in the Light of New Osteological Observations. Drs. Lynne Parenti and Dave Johnson, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern
(Award: DBI-0243512). - - RTP Project Summary.


Leslie Castellanos. 1996. Pomona College (Anthropology, 1998). Analysis of the correlation between volume and other attributes in Aztec ceramics. Dr. J. Daniel Rogers, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Field research in Zimbabwe "Cultural Change in the Tonga People" (1996).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Ivan Castro-Arellano. 1995. National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico) (Biology, 1997). Biogeography of the Elephant Shrews, (Mammalia: Macroscelididae). Dr. Alfred Gardner, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Employed as the writer/editor for the "Mammals of Mexico" atlas project (1996). MS. 2000. Texas A&M University. Wildlife Biology. Conacyt/Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship (1998). Encyclopedia Britanica Award (1999). Employed by Naturalia, a private conservation organization, for the 'Wildlands Project". - - RTP Project Summary.


Sulema Castro. 1999. University of Texas at Brownsville. Morphology of Bermuda Killifishes (Fundulus). Dr. Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. LSAMP Intern.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Yolanda Jesusita Chacon. 2001. New Mexico State University (Biology). Analysis of feather characters of cranes, rails, and allies (order Gruiformes). Dr. Carla Dove, Vertebrate Zoology - Birds. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.

Joshua Andrew Chamot. 1997. The College of William and Mary (Geology, 1998). The effects of morphological variation upon the stable carbon isotope ratios of Eocene plant material. Dr. Scott L. Wing, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). MS. 2000. University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Geology. Previously employed by University of Tennessee as a lab Teaching Assistant. Freelance science journalism. Employed by the NMNH Office of Public Affairs (2001). - - RTP Project Summary

Skye Chang. 2003. University of Hawaii, Manoa (Anthropology and Molecular Biology, 2004). 1862 Cast Iron Burial. Dr. Douglas Owsley, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-0243512). - - RTP Project Summary.

Mariana Chani-Posse. 1996. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman (San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina) (Entomology, 1995). Revision of the Neotropical treehopper genus Horiola (Homoptera:Membracidae). Dr. Terry Erwin and Dr. Michael Pogue, Entomology. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 2000. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman (San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina). - - RTP Project Summary.


Diana Chapa. 2000. University of Texas at Brownsville. Digital catalog of Maastrichtian through Aptian foraminifera. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. LSAMP Intern.
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Ryan Chapin. 1989. Howard County Public School. Rainforest Awareness Pamphlet. Jane Villa-Lobos, Botany.
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Jonathan Chen. 2004. Oberlin College. Cladistic analysis of the genus Cyphomyrmex and the origin of yeast cultivation in fungus-growing ants. Dr. Ted Schultz, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-0243512). - - RTP Project Summary.


Valerie Cheshire. 1993. East Texas State University (Geology, 1994). The Paleohabitat and Morphology of Several Extinct Paleocene, Eocene, and Miocene Foraminifera. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 1997. University of Texas. "Reclassification of the Early Cretaceous Georgetown Limestone based on the biostratigraphy of foraminifera." Ph.D. 1999. University of Texas. - - RTP Project Summary.


Min-Yuen Cynthia Cheung. 1999. University of Oklahoma. Phylogenetic relationships of Brittanichthys, a South American Characid fish (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) Dr. Stanley Weitzman, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). Ph.D. 2006. Baylor College of Medicine. Awarded a Goldwater Scholarship (2000).
Awarded National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2002). - - RTP Project Summary.


Meng Keong Choo. 1991. Cornell University. Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Manakin Species Complex in Panama. Dr. Mike Braun, Molecular Systematics Laboratory. James Smithson Society Intern.
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Gay Ann Christensen-Dean. 1989. Wright State University. Checklist of Medicinal Plants of the Guianas. Dr. Robert DeFilipps, Botany. MS. 1991. Wright State University. "Leaf development in Peperomia columelia."
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Diego Francisco Cisneros-Heredia. 2002. Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Quito, Ecuador). The Glass Frogs (Centrolenidae) from the "Río Palenque" Science Center, Ecuador; with the Description of a New Species. - - Virtual Poster. Dr. Roy McDiarmid, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Christopher Lang Claflin
. 1998. George Washington University (Geology, 1999). Geochemistry of amphiboles in niobium-yttrium-fluorine enriched pegmatites. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: EAR-9732416).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Byran Cockrell
. 2006. Princeton University. The Origins of Layered Carbonates in Peridotite Xenoliths. Dr. Edward Vicenzi, Mineral Sciences. NMNH Office of the Director. - - RTP Project Summary.


Eileen Pat Collins (Lopez). 1989. Louisiana Tech University (Zoology, 1990). Age & Size Relationships in an Arboreal Snake. Dr. Thomas Fritts, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Educational Outreach Intern. Student Assistant (1990). MS. 1992. University of Arizona. "Skeletochronology of the brown tree snake." Peace Corps volunteer - Malauir Africa (Biology teacher). NMNH Museum Technician, Dept of VZ, Herps (1990). Employed by the Arizona Fish and Game Department, Wildlife Specialist (1995 - present).
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James Travis Columbus. 1987. New Mexico State University. Floyd A. McClure Bamboo Collection/Exchange. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. MS. 1998. New Mexico State University. Range Science. Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley. Plant Systematics. NMNH Pre-doctoral Fellow. Employed by Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, as a Plant Systematist. Professor of Botany AND Assistant Professor of Botany at The Claremont Graduate School. Presented a paper at the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons Sydney, Australia (1998).
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Lynn Copes. 2004. Columbia University. Investigating the relationship between existing paleoenvironmental and paleoanthropological data: is there a good fit? Dr. Rick Potts, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-0243512). - - RTP Project Summary.


Sarah Corbett. 1999. Valdosta State University (Paleobotany). Comparative spathe anatomy and morphology of Commelina (Commelinaceae). Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
Internship, University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. 2004. University of Florida. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (2002 and 2001). - - RTP Project Summary.


James Corboy. 1993. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. How Frequent are High-Sulfur Eruptions? Dr. Jim Luhr, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225).
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Klint Austin Cowan. 1997. Antioch College (Geology & Environmental Science, 1998). A macroscopic view: mass equivalence and brecciation in the Mt. Padbury mesosiderite. Dr. Glenn MacPherson and Dr. Timothy J. McCoy, Mineral Sciences.
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Ashley Cramer. 1998. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (Biology, 1999). Three new species from the southwestern United States and Mexico related to Argyrotaenia ponera (Walsingham). Dr. John W. Brown, Entomology - USDA. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). MS. 2005.
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Sharon S. Cregger. 1988. Emory and Henry College. Gesneriaceae Bibliography. Dr. Laurence Skog, Botany. MS. University of Arizona. Environmental Health and Science.
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Michael Crockett. 1991. Howard University. Skeletochronology of Green sea turtles. Dr. George Zug, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians.
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Asher Cutter. 1996. Tufts University (Biology and Environmental Studies, 1997). Evaluation of insect herbivory of the flora in the Eocene Green River Formation (48MA) of Eastern Utah. Dr. Conrad Labandeira, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research on ant and beetle assemblages at James Cook University, Australia. Flynn Biology Fellowship (1999). Department of Defense NDSEG Fellowship. MS. 2000. University of Arizona. Ph.D. 2003. University of Arizona. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1997).
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Emma Mae Dawson. 1997. Southern Illinois University (Biological Sciences and Museum Studies, 1999). Taxonomic studies of marine algae (Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta, and Rhodophyta) of Hispanola. Dr. James N. Norris, Botany. MA. 2001, Ph.D 2005 - Texas Tech University, "Predicting Species Richness Patterns in the Chihuahuan Desert: A GIS Analysis of Spatial & Ecological Data. - - RTP Project Summary.


Gregory Andrew Dehn. 1997. The Colorado College (Geology, 1998). The history of the Bencubbin meteorite: a macroscopic analysis. Dr. Glenn MacPherson and Dr. Timothy J. McCoy, Mineral Sciences. Ph.D. 2000. Victoria University, New Zealand. Global Climate Change. Awarded Fulbright Scholarship.
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Flavia Fuchs de Jesus. 1995. Bard College, Annandale, New York. A Possible Realignment of Resia H.E.Moore (Gesneriaceae). Dr. Laurence Skog, Botany.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 2000. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Genetics and Evolution. - - RTP Project Summary.


Suzzette Delgado-Mendoza. 1985. University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez. Leguminosae Curation. Dr. Richard Cowan, Botany. Smithsonian Workshop: participated in the Man and the Biosphere/ Biodiversity Program. Employed by a national private environmental organization as a Research Associate (1988-1990).
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Joshua Dembsky. 1994. Brown University (Geobiology, 1996). The taxonomy and paleohabit of the Cretaceous planktonic foraminifer Globigerinelloides. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225).
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Julie Desmond. 1993. Mount Holyoke College. Patterns of Morphological and Genetic Diversity in the Florida Crown Conch, Melongena corona. Dr. M.G. Harasewych, Invertebrate Zoology. James Smithson Society Intern. MS. 1997. San Diego State University. "Fish use of salt marsh creeks." Employed by Pacific Estuarine Research Laboratory (SDSU) as a Research Associate.
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Raul Diaz. 2003. University of California - Berkeley (Integrative Biology, 2004). Phylogenetic relationships among corytophanine iguanid lizards inferred from morphological characters. Dr. Kevin de Queiroz, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-0243512). - - RTP Project Summary.


Torsten Dikow. 2000. University of Rostock, Germany (Diploma of Biology, 2002). A phylogenetic study of Actocetor becker (Diptera: Ephydridae) with a revision of the afrotropical and palearctic species. Dr. Wayne Mathis, Entomology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Ph.D. 2007. Cornell University and the American Museum of Natural History. Entomology. Graduate School Fellowship from Cornell. Ernst Mayr Grant.- - RTP Project Summary.


Karen Dillman. 1990. University of Alaska - Fairbanks. Biological Diversity of the Guianas - Fabaceae. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Erin Nicole DiMaggio. 2001. University of Michigan (Geology, 2004). Evidence for Feldspar Replacement in Altered Metamorphic Tuffs in the Duck Lake Volcanic Suite. Dr. Sorena Sorensen, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).Ph.D. 2008. Arizona State University, Planetary Sciences.
NASA internship and NASA young ambassador appointment.- - RTP Project Summary.


Margaret F. Dinse. 1987. Indiana University. Flora of the Guianas/ Rubiaceae Curation. Dr. Vicki Funk and George Russell, Botany. Employed by The U.S. Park Service, Glacier National Park as a Biological Technician.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Erin Doak. 2002. Appalachian State University. The picritic dikes of Northwest Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland. - - Virtual Poster. Thomas Simkin, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). - - RTP Project Summary.


Lisa Dorn
. 1993. Grinnell College. Designing a Method for Freezing Spiders In-copula. Dr. Jonathan Coddington, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Field research in Tanzania (1998). Ph.D. 2004. University of California - Davis. Ecology and Evolution.
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1999). - - RTP Project Summary.


Amy L. Downing (Meisner). 1992. The University of Michigan. Systematic Review of Five Nominal Species of Halfbeaks in the viviparous-group of Dermogenys. Dr. Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Pew Fellow (1993). Dr. Lynne Parenti, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. Ph.D. George Washington University. Ichthyology. "Systematic revision of the halfbeak genus Dermogenys." SI Graduate Student Fellowship (1996). Awarded the Stoye Award for Best Student Oral Paper in General Ichthyology at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Seattle, Washington (26 June - 2 July 1997). Employed by Kutztown University in Pennsylvania as a Biology Professor.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jessica A. Downs. 1990. University of Wisconsin - Madison. Effects of Nutrient and Light Levels on Lobophora variegata. Dr. Mark Littler, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Yolanda Maria Drozdowicz. 1988. University of California - Davis. Marine Algae Curation/Studies. Dr. Mark Littler, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jamie L. Duda. 1988. University of Massachusetts. Anatomical Experimentation of Paraffin Techniques on Commelinaceae. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. MS. 1993. University of Florida. "Floristics of Cedar Key Scrub Reserve." Employed as a Botanist with the North Carolina Heritage Program.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jeri Duhachek. 1988. Chadron State College. Compositae Curation - Flora of the Guianas. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany.
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Nathan B. Eckrich. 1992. San Diego State University. Feeding Preferences of Astraea on Marine Algae. Dr. Jim Norris, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). MS. University of California. - - RTP Project Summary.


David K. Edelman. 1984. University of Maryland. Bamboo Bibliography/Bamboo Flowering Research. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. NMNH Field Collector, Puerto Rico (1984-1987). NMNH Field Collector, Madagascar (1987). MS. University of Maryland. Deceased (1987).
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Rachel Eden. 1996. Texas A&M University (Entomology, 1997). Discomyza u-signata Cresson, a taxonomic review. Dr. Wayne Mathis, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331).
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Douglas Arthur Edmonds. 2002. St. Louis University. Mexican Volcanic Chains. - - Virtual Poster. Dr. James Luhr, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). MS. 2008. Penn State University. "River systems as part of the sedimentology/geomorphology group." National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (2003).
- - RTP Project Summary.


David J. Ellenberger
. 1992. Albertson College of Idaho (Zoology, 1994). Elevational Cranial Variation in a Wasatch Chipmunk (Tamias minimus) Population of Gunnison County, Colorado. Dr. Richard Thorington, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Employed by the Sierra Club as a Media Outreach Coordinator.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kimberly Gaye Eller (Taylor). 1988. Whitman College (Biology, 1989). Fossil Birds. Dr. Storrs Olson, Vertebrate Zoology - Birds. MS. 1994. University of California. "The potential value of fire for managing Stephen's kangaroo rat habitat at Lala Perris State Recreational Area." Employed by Olympic National Forest as a Fish Biologist (1995).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Megan Ennis
. 2006.Morehead State University. Hydrovolcanics on Mars: Comparison of Home Plate and Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico. Dr. Timothy McCoy, Mineral Sciences. NMNH Office of the Director. - - RTP Project Summary.


Bonnie Epstein. 1993. Brown University. The Plant Collections and Itineraries of S.B. Buckley. Dr. Laurence Dorr, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Ph.D. 1999. University of Rhode Island School of Oceanography. Employed by the New England Aquarium teaching Environmental Geology.
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David Ernstes. 1989. Texas A&M University (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, 1993). Tree Voucher Collections by Dr. Elbert Little. George Russell, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. MS. 1995. Texas A&M University. "An analysis of the economic incentives for increased trade in milk and milk products between the US and Mexico."
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Carol J. Estecki. 1992. George Mason University (Biology, 1996). Rare Lichen Project. Sherry Pittam, Botany. Employed by the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Human Development as an Eligibility Worker (1995).
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Jennifer Leigh Fairchild. 1998. University of Washington, Seattle (Anthropology and Zoology, 1999). Taxonomy and distribution of paralarval Ommastrephidae from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Michael Vecchione, Invertebrate Zoology - NOAA. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). - - RTP Project Summary.


Luisa Isaura Falcon. 1997. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico) (Biology, 1997). The squid family Gonatidae from the collections of the Amsterdam Mid-North Atlantic Plankton Expedition. Dr. Michael Vecchione and Dr. Clyde F.E. Roper, Invertebrate Zoology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 1998. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Marine Biology. Ph.D. 2002. Aix-Marseille, France. Transferred to State University of New York. Marine Ecology. - - RTP Project Summary.


Andrew Farke. 2000. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (Geology, 2003). Estimating clade richness in extinct and extant groups. Dr. Jonathan Coddington, Entomology.
Alice Eve Kennington Endowment Intern. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2003). Ph.D. 2008. State University of New York at Stony Brook. Paleontology. - - RTP Project Summary.


Katherine "Katie" Faust
. 2006. Louisiana State Univeristy. Morphological and genetic variation in Amazonian antwrens. Dr. Terry Chesser, Vertebrate Zoology, Birds. NMNH Office of the Director. - - RTP Project Summary.


Noah Robert Feinstein. 1997. Harvard University (Biology, 1998). Learning from the collector: a survey of azooxanthellate corals affixed by Xenophore (Mollusca: Gastropoda) together with an analysis of attachment patterns and a discussion of the hypothetical functions of attachment behavior. Dr. Stephen Cairns, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Employed by a social science firm in California conducting research on social issues such as AIDS.
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Miguel Fernandez. 2003. Universidad Mayor de San Andres (La Paz, Bolivia). Comparing distributions of Bolivian amphibian fauna to a predictive model using GIS. Dr. Don Wilson, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals; Drs. Roy McDiarmid and Ron Heyer, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians.
Alice Eve Kennington Endowment Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Carolyn Sue Ferrell. 1989. University of Minnesota. Mammalian Species Account. Dr. Don Wilson, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. Educational Outreach Intern.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Rebecca Fischer. 2007. Northwestern University. Role of water in the oxidation of the Earth's mantle. Dr. Elizabeth Cottrell, Mineral Sciences. Bill and Jean Lane Internship Endowment.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Gerard J. Fitzgerald
. 1992. University of Georgia. Molecular Systematics. Dr. Elizabeth Zimmer, Molecular Systematics Laboratory.
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Terry Fitzpatric. 1988. Prairie View A&M University. Compositae Curation. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany.
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Ana Marcela Florez. 2008. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. Comparative ontogeny of compound leaves: deciphering the enigmatic 3-parted leaf of the bishopwood tree (Bischofia). Dr. Kenneth Wurdack. Botany. Max Berry Donation. - - RTP Project Summary


Laura Flórez. 2007. Universidad de Los Andes. DNA Barcoding of the ant genus Pheidole from Guyana leaf-litter biodiversity surveys. Dr. Ted Schultz and Dr. Seán Brady, Entomology. Bill and Jean Lane Internship Endowment.
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Maria Fokina (Napolitano)
. 1996. Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia) (Genetics, 1997). Flora and vegetation of Lake Teletskoie area of Altai Region, Southwestern Siberia. Dr. Stanwyn Shetler, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern. MS. 2003. University of Pennsylvania. Plant Sciences. Previously employed as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Martha Anne Folger. 1988. Wellesley College. Gesneriaceae Cultivation. Dr. Laurence Skog, Botany. MS. 1995. Harvard University. Landscape architecture.
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Suzanne Folke. 1990. Butler University. Catalogue of American Amphibians & Reptiles. Dr. Roy McDiarmid, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Educational Outreach Intern. MS. 1994. Indiana University, Bloomington. "Reproductive ecology of Silene noctiflora." Employed by Westseed, a native seed company, owner of the company.
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Dawn Eve Freeberg (Espindola). 1988. University of North Dakota (Biology, 1989). Cactaceae Paintings and Photographs. Horticulture Display/Intern Video. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. Previously employed by the Information Lounge at the Technology Center of the Silicon Valley (a museum of technology) as the Assistant Manager. Employed by Cyberlogic, owner of the company (1995). Volunteer at a science and technology museum (1998).
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Adam Karl Raymond Freeburg. 2002. Pennsylvania State University (Anthropology, 2002). Experimental Carbonization of Helianthus annus. - - Virtual Poster. Bruce Smith, Archaeology. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Charlene Fricker
. 1994. Purdue University (Geology and Paleontology, 1994). Floristic study of Middle Pennsylvanian aged plants from mid-continent United States. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Second Summer Opportunity. 1995. Floristic study of Middle Pennsylvanian aged plants from mid-continent United States. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology. MS. Purdue University. "Lower Pennsylvanian plants of NW Indiana." - - RTP Project Summary.


Matthew Scott Friedman. 2001. University of Rochester (Biology and Geology). Study of a putative lampridiform fish from the Oligocene of Peru. Dr. James C. Tyler and Dr. G. David Johnson, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
Ph.D. 2007. University of Chicago. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship. MPhil. Cambridge University. Zoology (Jenny Clack). "Growth series of Acanthostega, a transitional form between fish and amphibians." - - RTP Project Summary.


Teresa Friedrich. 1995. Hope College - Michigan. Evolutionary Relationships of Flying squirrels. Dr. Richard Thorington Jr., Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). MS. 1998. University of Michigan. "Flying squirrel habitat preferences." Ph.D. 2002. University of Michigan. "Mammal host-parasite ecology." Employed by the University of Michigan as a Graduate Student Instructor. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1997).
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Stephanie Fuentes. 2000. State University of New York (Geological Sciences, 2001). Biogeography and stratigraphy of the Ediacaran fauna. Dr. Douglas Erwin, Paleobiology. NASA Intern. Rawlinson Fellowship.
M.S. 2003. University of Cincinnati. Geological Sciences.- - RTP Project Summary.


Suzanne Mary Furesz. 1989. St. Mary's University. Paleobotanical Studies in Wyoming. Dr. Scott Wing, Paleobiology. Educational Outreach Intern.
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Andrew Furness. 2007. Marquette University. Reproductive System Modification in Foam Nesting Frogs, with Emphasis on the Genus Leptodactylus. Drs. Roy McDiarmid, Ron Heyer, and George Zug. Vertebrate Zoology, Amphibians and Reptiles. NMNH Office of the Director. - - RTP Project Summary.


Jean Furney (Lassiter)
. 1991. Furman University (Biology, 1992). Biological Diversity of the Guianas. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. Previously employed by the Washington DC office of an environmental consulting firm as an Environmental Scientist/Health Safety Officer (1995). MS. 2000. Environmental toxicology. Previously employed by an environmental firm in McLean, VA. Currently full-time wife of Air Force officer.
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Forest Gahn
. 1996. Brigham Young University (Invertebrate Zoology, 1997). Revision of the phylogenetic analysis of Notophyllia (Cnidaria:Scleractina). Dr. Stephen Cairns, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). NMNH short-term visitor (1999). Ph.D. 2003.
University of Michigan. Awarded (2003) a 2 year postdoctoral appointment (The Invertebrate Paleontology Postdoctoral Research Fellowship) in the Department of Paleobiology here at NMNH. Employed as a Geology professor at Brigham Young University - Idaho teaching Physical Geology and Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. - - RTP Project Summary.


Kurt Galbreath. 1995. Illinois Wesleyan University. Using Amphipod Crustaceans to Interpret Evolutionary History and Biogeographic Pattern in Coral Reefs. Dr. James Thomas, Invertebrate Zoology - Crustaceans. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. MS. 2001. University of Alaska, Fairbanks. "Evolution of small mammal populations in Alaska and Siberia."
Ph.D. Cornell University. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2001). - - RTP Project Summary.


Holly H. Ganz. 1991. The George Washington University. A review of the genera Bidens and Oparanthus in southeastern Polynesia. Dr. Warren Wagner, Botany.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 1994. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Biology. "Population genetics of a marine copepod." Employed as an ecological consultant in the San Francisco Bay area. Ph.D. 2001. University of California - Davis. "The evolution of species interactions." - - RTP Project Summary.

Amie Garcia. 2004. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Cathodoluminescence of Amazonite in the Morefield pegmatite. Dr. Mike Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-0243512). - - RTP Project Summary.


Linnette Garcia. 1992. University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez. Description of the Advertisement Call and Resolution of the Systematic Status of Leptodactylus gracilis delattini. Dr. W. Ronald Heyer, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Pew Fellow (1993 and 1994). Dr. Kevin de Queiroz, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Ph.D. George Washington University. "Phylogeny of the Anolis christatellus species group." Dr. Kevin de Queiroz is serving on her graduate committee.
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Jose M. Garcia-Lopez. 1991. University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras. Advertisement Call Variation in the Leptodactylus mystaceus Species Cluster. Dr. W. Ronald Heyer, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. James Smithson Society Intern. Ph.D. VMD. 1996. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Veterinary Medicine. Employed by The Tuffs University School of Veterinary Medicine as a Large Animal Surgery Resident.
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Brian Nicholas Garland. 1999. University of Kentucky. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of insect herbivory on a lower Permian flora from North-central Texas. Dr. Conrad Labandeira, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
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Sarah Ellen Garrett
. 2002. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. An Inventory of Leafroller Species of Moths of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. - - Virtual Poster. John Brown, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
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Aspen Garry
. 1999. University of Arizona. Choosing to live in the low-rent district: habitat selection by fish in Antarctic deep-sea environments. Dr. Michael Vecchione, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes / NOAA. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
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Andrew Gaudreau. 2004. University of Notre Dame. "Discovering Rastafari": A Case Study of Transnationalism. Jake Homiak, Anthropology. - - RTP Project Summary.


Lisa Marie Gawen (Gawen-Blackburn). 1990. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Biology, 1991). Paleobotanical Studies in Illinois. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology. MS. 1993. Hahnemann University. Physical Therapy. Employed by National Rehabilitation Hospital (1995).
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Susan Geer. 1987. Knox College. Floyd A. McClure Bamboo Collections/Exchange. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany.
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J. Phil Gibson. 1987. Oklahoma State University. Solanaceae/ Compositae Curation. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. Program Assistant (1988). Ph.D. University of Colorado. Taxonomic botany. NMNH Short Term Visitor. Employed as a Botany Professor at Mary Agnes Scott University in Georgia.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Gary B. Gillis. 1989. Pacific Lutheran University (Biology, 1990). Fish Projects. Dr. G. David Johnson and Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. Educational Outreach Intern. Ph.D. 1997. University of California - Irvine. "Effects of an aquatic to terrestrial transition on axial muscle function in lower invertebrates."
National Institute of Health - NRSA postdoctoral grant to conduct research in the organismic and evolutionary biology department at Harvard University. Employed as a professor at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, teaching introductory biology and biomechanics (2002). - - RTP Project Summary.


R. Douglas Gitar. 1991. University of Wisconsin - Superior. Development of Techniques for use in Monocot Venation Studies. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern.
MS. University of Minnesota, Duluth. Instructor, University of Wisconsin - Superior (1993 - 1997). Employed by the Fond du Lac Reservation, Office of Water Protection as a Wetland Specialist (1998 - current). - - RTP Project Summary.


Karen R. Glantz. 1990. Cornell University (Plant Science, 1993). Medicinal Plants of the Guianas. Dr. Robert DeFilipps, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. MS. 1996. Wheelock College. Education. Employed by the Museum of Science in Boston as a Science Demonstrator. Employed by Brookline Public Schools as a second grade teacher (1995 - current).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Richard Glor. 1996. Cornell University (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1998). Skeletochronological age-estimates for a population of Green Sea Turtles (Chelomia mydas) from the Indian River Inlet, Florida. Dr. George Zug, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Ph.D. 2003. Washington University, St. Louis. Evolutionary Ecology. Howard Hughes Scholarship. Awarded a Morley Grant. Driscoll Fellow in Biomedical Prospecting. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1998).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Victoria Mae Godwin (Godwin-Boger). 1987. Florida State University. Marine Algae Curation. Dr. Jim Norris, Botany. NMNH Contractor, Botany. NMNH Museum Technician, Inventory. NMNH Museum Technician, SOSC. NMNH Museum Technician, SEM Lab. Employed by the National Marine Fisheries Service (1995). Employed by Acadia Woods Kennel as a certified pet groomer.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Angela C. S. Gore. 1992. Duke University. Medicinal Plants of the Philippines / Commelinaceae Projects. Dr. Robert DeFilipps and Dr. Robert Faden, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Lisa M. Gornicki (Gornicki-Bolender). 1987. Wittenberg University. Floyd A. McClure Bamboo Collections/Exchange. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. MS. University of Virginia. Urban and Environmental Planning.
Currently studying at Gemological Institute of America (GIA) toward Graduate Gemologist (2002). - - RTP Project Summary.


Philip Gottshall. 1995. Moravian College - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The genus Amphiscapha (Gastrpoda: Euomphalidae): A Phylogenetic Evaluation. Dr. Douglas Erwin, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Second Summer Opportunity. 1996. Dr. Douglas Erwin. MS. 1999. University of Cincinnati. "Comparative diversification of gastropods and bivalves during the Ordovician Radiation." Employed by the University of Cincinnati as a teaching and research assistant.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Katherine R. Gould. 1992. Harvard University. Species Delimitation in the Werneria pygmaea Complex. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Ph.D. 1997. University of Texas, Austin. Systematic Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jason Randall Grant. 1989. University of Alaska. Bromeliads of the Guianas. Dr. W. John Kress, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. MS. University of Maryland. Botany. Ph.D. 2001. Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland. "Molecular systematics of Neotropical gentianaceae." NMNH Collaborator (1990 - 1992). Previously employed by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jennifer A. Gray. 1989. Rhodes College. Fossil Birds. Dr. Storrs Olson, Vertebrate Zoology - Birds. Educational Outreach Intern. Ph.D. 1996. Brown University. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Excellence in Teaching Award (1996).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Tened Greene. 1996. University of Arizona (Anthropology, 1997). Morphological analysis of Permian-aged Taeniopteris. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Smithsonian Minority Fellowship. 1997. Morphological analysis of Permian-aged Taeniopteris. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology. MS. 2000. University of New Mexico. "Pleistocene/Holocene transition (Geoarchaeology)." Employed by The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Education Department. Employed by Black Canyon National Monument, Gunnison, CO, as an archaeological technician.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Emily Frances Greenfest. 1997. Bryn Mawr College (Geology & Computer Science, 1999). Insect folivory on the Sakmarian coprolite bonebed flora from North-Central Texas. Dr. Conrad Labandeira, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331).
Ph.D. University of Chicago. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1999). - - RTP Project Summary.

Lesley Gregoricka. 2003. Notre Dame University (Anthropology, 2005). CSI Sheep. Dr. Melinda Zeder, Anthropology. National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellowship (2004). Employed as a Research Assistant a the University of Notre Dame's Archaeometry and Biocultural Laboratories. - - RTP Project Summary.


Susan Grose. 1995. Smith College, Massachusetts. Phylogeny of Cydista meirs (Bignoniaceae). Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. NMNH Contractor (1991-present). MS. 1999. University of Hawaii. Botany. "Molecular Systematics of Metrosideros." Ph.D. 2003. University of Washington. OTS Fellowship/Participant in Costa Rica.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Leo Gueriguian. 1993. University of Wisconsin - Madison. Body Size Variation in Ground Squirrels (subgenus Spermophilus) in Relation to Habitat Aridity. Dr. Richard Thorington, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 1996. Georgia Tech. "The phytoremediation of TNT and other nitroaromaics by aquatic plants." Employed by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation. - - RTP Project Summary.

Thushara Gunda. 2008. University of Virginia. Geological Significance of Blue Quartz in the United States of America. Dr. Michael Wise, Department of Mineral Sciences. Max Berry Donation. - - RTP Project Summary.


Alfredo Gutierrez-Amador. 1995. University of Havana, Cuba (Havana, Cuba). Paralarval Octopods of the Florida Current. Dr. Michael Vecchione, Invertebrate Zoology. Herbert R. Axelrod Foundation Intern. Ph.D. 2004. University of Havana. Employed by the Laboratory of Malacology, Havana, Cuba. Employed by the Pan-American Health Organization as an experiment design consultant.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Erica Guyer. 1996. Brown University (Anthropology, 1997). Analysis of a Late Dorset archaeological site, Northern Labrador, Canada. Dr. William Fitzhugh, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). NMNH Short Term Visitor (1996). MS. 2000. Anthropology. Ph.D. Arizona State University. Previously employed by the Department of the Interior, Interior Museum Program. Employed by Archaeological Research Institute/ASU.
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (2000 and 1999). - - RTP Project Summary.



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William Vincent Haigler. 1989. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Chromosome Studies of Eragrostoid Grasses. Dr. Paul Peterson, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. Employed as a farmer in Wisconsin. - - RTP Project Summary.


Paige Hamilton
. 2006. University of Notre Dame. The White Plague: Skeletal Evidence of Tuberculosis. Dr. David Hunt, Anthropology. Notre Dame Partnership Program. - - RTP Project Summary.


Selma Iduna Hanel (Rosenthal). 1985. Bowdoin College (Biology, 1985). Gesneriaceae Cultivation. Dr. Laurence Skog, Botany. MS. 1988. George Washington University. "Leaf anatomy and architecture of the South American genus Werneria." Dr. Vicki Funk served on Masters Committee. Ph.D. 1994. University of British Columbia. "Autumnal leaf senescence in western larch." NMNH Contractor, Botany (1987).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Amie Hankins
. 2002. Southeastern Oklahoma State University. How many blennies is the redlip blenny? - - Virtual Poster. Carole Baldwin, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Rachel Harden
. 1996. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Biology, 1996). Molecular phylogeny of a group of Heteronemeteans. Dr. Jon Norenburg, Invertebrate Zoology.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Christopher Hardy. 1994. University of Maryland - College Park. Comparative leaf anatomy of the genera Pollia and Commelina (Commelinaceae). Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Second Summer Opportunity. 1995. Comparative leaf anatomy of the genera Pollia and Commelina (Commelinaceae). Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. MS. New York University. Ph.D. 2001. Cornell University. Botany. Post Doc (2001 - 2003). Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland. "Diversity and evolution of larger endemic plant groups of the Cape flora, South Africa." NMNH short term visitor (2000, 2001).
- - RTP Project Summary 1994.


Laura Michelle Hardy. 1990. Louisiana State University - Shreveport. Frog Call Analysis of the genus Eleutherodactylus sp. Dr. W. Ronald Heyer, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Educational Outreach Intern. MS. Louisiana State University. "Crystalline protein in salamander eggs."
- - RTP Project Summary.

Xavier Haro. 2004. Catholic University of Ecuador. A key of the genus Cryptionopsis Ecuador, South America (Vernonieae: Asteraceae). Dr. Harold Robinson, Botany. Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund. - - RTP Project Summary.


Emma Harrower. 2007. University of British Columbia. Population genetics and taxonomy of Muhlenbergia montana and Muhlenbergia filiculmis (Poaceae: Muhlenbergiinae). Dr. Paul M. Peterson, Botany.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern.- - RTP Project Summary.


Kristofer Helgen. 2000. Harvard University (Evolutionary Biology, 2001). Taxonomic status of insular raccoons. Dr. Don Wilson, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). Ph.D. 2005. University of Adelaide, South Australia. Environmental Biology. NMNH Short-term Visitor (2001, 2002, 2003). J. William Fulbright Scholarship (2001). National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2003). Honored at the 2004 American Society of Mammalogists meeting.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Donna Henriques. 1988. University of Washington. Fish Osteology. Dr. Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. Ph.D. Harvard University. Ichthyology.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Tabitha Hensley. 2000. University of New Orleans (Geology, 2001). Geochemical variations in the Central American volcanic Arc. Dr. James Luhr, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). Ph.D. 2006. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Earth Sciences. Employed as a graduate student researcher at University College of San Diego
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jessamine Hernandez-Muniz. 1983. University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez. Bamboo study: the genus Raddia. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. MS. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Botany. NMNH Short Term Visitor (1984).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Santiago Herrera. 2007. Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Investigating Diversity of the Freshwater Medusa Craspedacusta sowerbii. Drs. Stephen Cairns and Allen Collins. Invertebrate Zoology.
Alice Eve Kennington Endowment Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Tristram C. Hill
. 1991. University of Vermont. Defining the species Werneria nubigena. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Tracy E. Hippensteel (Rush). 1987. Pennsylvania State University (Botany, 1988). Marine Algae Studies. Dr. Mark Littler, Botany. MS. 1992. Pennsylvania State University. "Light stress induced hayscented fern." NMNH Museum Technician, Botany (1988-1989). NMNH contractor, Botany (1988, 1989, 1992, and 1995). Employed by The Nature Conservancy as a field technician specializing in rare and endangered species. Employed by Dr. J.H. Carter III and Associates as an Endangered Species Biologist. Employed by The Washington Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program, as a Program Biologist.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Ellen Hissong (Carpenter). 1993. College of William and Mary (Geology, 1994). Petrogenesis of a Metamorphosed Gabbroic Pegmatite from the Virginia Piedmont. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Currently employed by Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jamie Hodgkins. 2002. University of Colorado. The Antiquity and Paleoepidemiology of the Infectious Disease Brucellosis. - - Virtual Poster. Dr. Donald Ortner, Anthropology. MS (2006) Arizona State University. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Bruce Hoffmann
. 1989. Humboldt State University. Checklist of Medicinal Plants of the Guianas. Dr. Robert DeFilipps, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. NMNH Field Collector, stationed in Guyana (1992 - 1994). MS. 1997. Florida International University. Systematic Botany (Araceae). Ph.D. 1999. Yale University. Botany. "Systematics of the genus Clusia." Currently employed to prepare a field guide of the vines of Surinam.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Eric Hoffmann. 1996. University of Arizona (General Biology, 1996). Analysis and description of a new species of Neotropical Noterid Beetle. Dr. Paul Spangler, Entomology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Ph.D. Michigan State University. Aquatic Entomology. Michigan State University College of Natural Sciences Recruiting Fellowship. Employed by the Marine Biochemists of Arizona. - - RTP Project Summary.


Maureen Hoffmann. 2008. Bryn Mawr College. (Anthropology and Linguistics, 2009). Instrumental studies of phonemic contrasts and sentence intonation in Unami (Oklahoma Delaware; Algonquian). Dr. Ives Goddard, Anthropology. NMNH Office of the Director. - - RTP Project Summary.


Michael Charles Holcomb. 2001. University of Idaho (Geology and Chemistry). Use of X-radiographs for coral identification. Dr. Ian MacIntyre and Dr. John Pandolfi, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Robert Bruce Hole. 1988. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. Patterns of Bird Variation. Dr. Richard Banks, Vertebrate Zoology - Birds. MS. Mississippi State University. NMNH Research Assistant (1989-1991).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Laura Holladay. 2001. University of Michigan (Geology, 2001). Ontogenetic morphometric comparison of middle-late Eocene pseudohastigerinid planktonic foraminifera using X-radiograph image analysis. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 2003. University of Michigan. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2001). - - RTP Project Summary.


Sarah C. Hood. 1997. University of Nevada, Reno (Biology, 1997). Description and relationships of a pelagic nemertean. Dr. Jon L. Norenburg, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). MS. 2003. San Francisco State University.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Mark Hooks. 1984. University of California - Santa Barbara. Gramineae Curation. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. Employed as California law enforcement officer.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Steven Patrick Houck. 1988. Pennsylvania State University. Cactaceae paintings and photographs. Horticultural Displays/Intern video. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. Employed as a photographer.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Ryan Houston. 1996. University of California - Berkeley (Environmental Science, 1996). Stable isotope analysis of some Late Cretaceous planktic foraminifera. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). MS. 1998. University of Arizona. Ecology. Ph.D. University of Arizona. NMNH Contractor, Paleobiology (1997).
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1998). - - RTP Project Summary.


Dianella Howarth (Dunn). 1995. University of Pennsylvania. A Phylogeny of Scaevola section Scaevola (Goodeniaceae). Dr. Warren Wagner, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Ph.D. 2003. Harvard University. Systematic Botany. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1998). ASPT Graduate Research Award.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Adam R. Huffman. 1986. Miami University. Morphology of the Algae genus Caulerpa. Dr. Mark Littler, Botany. NMNH Field Assistant (1986).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Eugene Hunt. 1995. Duke University. Growth and Variation in Agnostid Trilobites. Dr. Doug Erwin and Ralph Chapman, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Second Summer Opportunity. 1996. Three-dimensional digitalization and visualization of dinosaur fossils. Ralph Chapman, Paleobiology. NMNH Contractor (1996). Ph.D. 2000. University of Chicago. Evolutionary Biology. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1998). NMNH Short Term Visitor (2000). NMNH Post-doctoral Fellow (2001).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Ryan Hurtado. 1999. Colorado State University. Commingled conjunctions: a biometric approach. Dr. David Hunt, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.



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Kadeejah Ingram. 1994. Eastern Michigan University. A petrographic study of sulfide mineralization of granitic pegmatites. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Previously employed by Eastern Michigan University as Geological Laboratory Science Instructor. Bess Brown Foundation Scholarship for Educators. Board of Regents Scholarship for Excellence. Deceased (6 December 1996). - - RTP Project Summary.


Kerry E. Inman. 1992. The University of Rhode Island. Leaf Anatomy of Two Genera in the Commelinaceae: Anthericopsis and Murdannia. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). MS. Ph.D. University of Washington. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (2001).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kristen Elizabeth Iriarte. 2002. College of William and Mary. Analyzing the Fatal Pyroclastic Flow of Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica. - - Virtual Poster. Dr. William Melson, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Nataly Ivanova
. 1993. Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). Under Thin Ice: Extracting DNA from Glacial Umbilicate Lichens. Dr. Paula DePriest, Botany. MS. 1994. Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). Molecular Systematics. Ph.D. 1998. Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). "Structure and evolution of rRNA genes in the lichen family Umbilicanaceae." NMNH Short Term Visitor (1995 & 1996). Currently employed as a Research Scientist (molecular biology) at the Engelhardt Molecular Biology Institute, Russian Academy of Science.
- - RTP Project Summary.



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Kate Jackson. 1993. University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada). Speculations on the Origin of Venom-Conducting Fangs. Dr. Thomas Fritts, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 1995. University of Toronto, Canada. "Comparative biology of salinity discrimination in crocodilians and the possible role of the integument." Ph.D. 2002. Harvard University. "Evolution and developmental morphology of the ophidian venom-delivery system." Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, at the University of Toronto (2003). NMNH Field Assistant in Guam working on the brown tree snake project (1996). NMNH Short Term Visitor (1996, 2003). Ethics Workshop discussion leader for 2003 RTP group. - - RTP Project Summary.


Matthew Jackson. 2000. Brown University (Biology, 2003). Comparative leaf anatomy of the genera of the subtribe Coleotrypinae (Commelinaceae). Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Donna Lynn Jacob. 1990. Beloit College. X-Ray Analysis of Lauraceae Leaves/ Paleobotanical Studies in Wyoming. Dr. Scott Wing, Paleobiology. Educational Outreach Intern. MS. Washington University in St. Louis.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Sara Christine James. 1998. The College of William and Mary (Geology, 1999). Analysis of eruption trends at Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica. Dr. William Melson, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: EAR-9732416). Guest speaker at RTP/AMP 1999 Winter Workshop.
- - RTP Project Summary.


John Janovec. 1995. Kansas State University. Charadranaetes, a New Genus of the Senecioneae (Asteraceae) from Costa Rica. Dr. Harold Robinson, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Ph.D. 2000. Texas A&M University. Plant Systematics. Smithsonian sponsored OTS participant (1996). Jordan Fellowship for field work in Ecuador (1998). Previously employed by Texas A&M University as a teaching and research assistant. Employed by the New York Botanical Garden.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Maria Alejandra Jaramillo. 1995. Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (Colombia). Phylogenetic Relationships in the Family Costaceae (Order: Zingiberales). Dr. John Kress, Botany.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Ph.D. 2001. Duke University. Plant Systematics. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institite (STRI) Research Assistant at Barro Colorado Island. NMNH Pre-doctoral Fellow (2000). Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (2002-2004) - - RTP Project Summary.


Pablo Santiago Jarrin. 1997. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (Ecuador) (Zoology, 1998). Morphological digests of some bats of Amazonia. Dr. Charles O. Handley, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Laurie Jeffers. 1989. State University of New York. Orchid SEM Photograph Collection Curation. George Russell, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Anne Jefferson. 1999. Johns Hopkins University. River channel meander morphology on the Late Quaternary Rio Grande Delta, Texas. Dr. Daniel Stanley, Paleobiology.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. 2002. University of Minnesota. Water Resources Science. Ph.D. 2006. Oregon State University. Geosciences. "Hydrology and geomorphology of High Cascades spring-fed streams." National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2002).- - RTP Project Summary.


Melissa Jensen. 1999. Cornell University. A decline in the species richness of Oecophorid moths (Insects: Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) of Plummers Island, Maryland: consequences of old-field abandonment and implications for management. Dr. John Brown, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). NMNH contractor (1999). Presented research at SACNAS conference in Atlanta, GA (2000).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jayme Job. 2006. Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Pipestone Provenance: Sourcing Prehistoric Pipestone Artifacts Within Museum Collections Using Reflectance Spectroscopy. Dr. Eric Hollinger, Anthropology. Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Jocelynn Johnson
. 2003. University of Manitoba (Manitoba, Canada) (Geological Sciences, 2004). A Microchemical Investigation of Fossilized Wood: Biological Preservation and the Influence of Mineralization. Dr. Ed Vicenzi, Mineral Sciences.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Nicholla Johnson. 1995. University of the West Indies (Trinidad). Program Assistant. Overview of the Genus Galactia (Family: Fabaceae ). Mary Sangrey, Research Training Program. Collections Volunteer Program (1994). Rusty Russell, Botany. Leguminosaceae Curation. Employed as a Science teacher in Trinidad. MS. 1999. University of the West Indies (Trinidad). Population Ecology. Previously employed by the University of the West Indies as a Laboratory Assistant.
Currently employed by the State Oil Company doing Palynology/Micropaleontology - Biostratigraphy work (2000 - present). - - RTP Project Summary.


Stephanie Johnson. 2003. Cornell University (Entomology and Biology, 2004). Investigating the evolutionary relationships between Attine fungus-growing ant species in the Cyphomyrmex longiscapus group. Dr. Ted Schultz, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-0243512). Ph.D. 2009. University of Maryland. Studied abroad in South Africa as part of Organization of Tropical Studies Undergraduate Study Abroad Program in South Africa
(2004). National Science Foundation Fellowship 2004. Honorable mention from the Ford Foundation Fellowship (2004).- - RTP Project Summary.


Mark A. Jordan. 1991. Luther College (Biology, 1992). Determination of Sex and its Relation to the Biology of the Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis). Dr. Thomas Fritts, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. James Smithson Society Intern. MS. 1994. University of New Mexico. "The relationship between metabolic rate and body size in the Galapagos Land Iguana." Fulbright Scholar (1997). Ph.D. 1998. University of New Mexico. "Phenotypic plasticity in reproduction of Galapagos Lava Lizards."
- - RTP Project Summary.



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Miranda Cybelle Kahn. 1989. Oberlin College. Epidermal Studies of Commelinaceae Leaves. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. Ph.D. Cornell University. - - RTP Project Summary.


Heather Jean Kalb. 1988. Wittenberg University. Age Determinations of Amphibians and Reptiles. Dr. George Zug, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. MS. Texas A&M University. "Imprinting hypothesis of Kemp's Ridley sea turtles.
" - - RTP Project Summary.


Jason Kaufman. 1996. Columbia University (Anthropology, 1997). Leaping and limb anatomy: A comparison of the hind limb of two species of tamarin. Dr. Richard Thorington, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Ph.D. Washington University. Primates/Anthropology.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Pamela Jo Keef. 1992. Ithaca College (Anthropology, 1992). Medicinal Plants of the Philippines. Dr. Robert DeFilipps, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Previously Employed by Arcadia National Park. Previously Employed by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Arizona) as a Park Ranger (1994). Internship with "Save America's Forests" (Washington, D.C.) (1995). MS. 1997. University of Maine, Orono. Science Education. Previously employed by The University of Maine as a teaching assistant. Currently employed by Delta Cyber School as an online Professor of Botany, French, and Spanish in Maine, previously Alaska.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Lawrence Michael Kelly. 1989. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. Compositae of the Guianas. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. Ph.D. 1998. Cornell University. Taxonomic Botany. NMNH Short Term Visitor (1994). Received The George R. Cooley Award (1996). This award is given annually by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists for the best contributed paper in plant systematics presented at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America. Employed by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico) as a Professor of Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Addison Kemp. 2007. Mount Holyoke College. Three New Species of Monotocheirodon (Characiformes: Characidae). Dr. Stanley Weitzman. Vertebrate Zoology, Fishes. Max Berry Donation.
- - RTP Project Summary.


William James Kenke. 1985. Andrews University. Leguminosae Curation. Dr. Richard Cowan, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Sheena Ketchum
. 2006. University of Notre Dame. Analysis of Ceramic Collections from Morona-Santiago, Southeast Ecuador. Dr. Paulina Ledergerber, Anthropology. Notre Dame Partnership Program. - - RTP Project Summary.


Tae Hoon Kim. 1992. Reed College. Evolutionary Relationships within the Lythraceae. Dr. Elizabeth Zimmer, Molecular Systematics Laboratory. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Tristan Seth Kimbrell. 1998. Kansas State University - Manhattan (Biology, 1999). Age-related changes in the cross-sectional histomorphology of warbler long bones. Dr. Gary Graves, Vertebrate Zoology - Birds; Dr. Donald Ortner, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Ph.D. 2004. University of Kansas. Evolutionary Ecology.
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1999). - - RTP Project Summary.


Shelly King. 1988. Musk gland morphology of turtles. Dr. George Zug, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Tara Kirkpatrick. 1995. Mount Holyoke College. Mineralogy, Texture and Chemistry of Fine-Grained Lepidolite Bodies from Zoned Rare-Element Granitic Pegmatites. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Second Summer Opportunity. 1996. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. Employed as a nurse.
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Jennifer Kling. 1994. Vanderbilt University (Geology, 1995). The Volcano-climate connection. Dr. Jim Luhr, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). MS. 1997. University of South Florida.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Laurie Ellen Klingensmith. 1989. New Mexico State University. Botanical Illustration. Alice Tangerini, Botany. Educational Outreach Intern. Employed by the Missouri Botanical Garden as the Botanical Illustrator for the Flora of North America.
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Michelle Christine Knapp. 2002. Harvard University (2004). Testing the taxonomic significance of buccal structures in phyllostomid bats. - - Virtual Poster. Alfred Gardner, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). Ph.D. 2009. Texas Tech University.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Abigail Jean Knee
. 2001. University of Rhode Island (Marine Biology). A cladistic analysis of the polychaete genus Halosydna. Dr. Kristian Fauchald, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
Ph.D. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Biological Oceanography. Summer Graduate Research Fellowship. - - RTP Project Summary.


Beth Hale Knicely. 1986. Roanoke College. Rubiaceae Curation. Dr. George Russell, Botany. Employed by James Madison University as a research assistant.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Hugo Kons. 1994. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. The two classifications of the Holarctic butterfly genus Satyrium. Dr. Robert Robbins, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Ph.D. 2002. University of Florida - Gainsville. Entomology.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Matthew Kosnik. 1994. Austin College (Biology, 1996). The phylogenetic analysis of gastropods during the permo-triassic extinction. Dr. Douglas Erwin, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Ph.D. 2002. University of Chicago. Paleoecology. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1997).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Trevor James Krabbenhoft. 2001. North Dakota State University (Zoology, 2003). A New Cynoglossid Flatfish (Symphurus: Cynoglossidae: Pleuronectiformes) from Deep-waters of the Philippine Archipelago. Dr. Thomas Munroe, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
NMNH Technician, Fishes (2003). Ph.D. 2008. University of South Carolina. Biology.- - RTP Project Summary.


Alan Krakauer. 1994. Cornell University (Biology, 1996). The activity and ecology of the brown tree snake in Guam. Dr. Thomas Fritts, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). MS. Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley. NMNH Short Term Visitor, Herpetology (1994). NMNH Field Assistant, Guam, working on the brown tree snake project (1995).
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1999). National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1998). - - RTP Project Summary.


Scott Kruger. 1993. Tulane University (Harvard University, Biology, 1996). Quantitative Leaf Physiognomy and Paleoclimate Inference. Dr. Scott Wing, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Pew Fellow (1994). NMNH Research Associate (1994-present).
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Brooke Kuhn. 1991. Vassar College (Biopsychology, 1993). Cameroon Commelinaceae Project. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. Employed by the American Psychological Association as their Science Initiatives Coordinator (1995) .
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Tanja Lynne Kujac. 1988. Cornell University. Marine Algae Curation/Studies. Dr. Mark Littler, Botany. Ph.D. (M.D.) 1996. Chicago Medical School. Employed by Stanford University as a resident physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
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Matthew Kweskin. 1996. The Evergreen State College (Entomology, 1996). Eye morphology and behavior of male bees. Dr. Ronald McGinley, Entomology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). NMNH Contractor, Department of Entomology (1997). Employed by USGS, Biological Resource Division as a technician studying insect food. Ph.D. 2000. University of Texas - Austin. Evolutionary Biology. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2000).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Miriam M. Kwon. 1988. University of Texas - Austin. Mammalian Species Account. Dr. Brian Robbina, Vertebrate Zoology Mammals.
- - RTP Project Summary.



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Laura Lagomarsino. 2007. University of California, Berkeley. Phylogeny Reconstruction and Floral Evolution in Heliconia (Heliconiaceae). Dr. W. John Kress, Botany. NMNH Office of the Director. - - RTP Project Summary.

 

Scott A. LaGreca. 1991. Cornell University (Plant Sciences, 1991). The Oleaceae of St. John Island. Dr. Pedro Acevedo, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern. Ph.D. 1997. Duke University. "Systematics and evolution of the lichen genus Ramalina." NMNH Short Term Visitor, Botany (1992, 1995). Received The A.J. Sharp Award (1996). This award is given for the best student paper presented in the American Bryological and Lichenological sessions at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America. Employed by the James Madison University as an instructor of Botany and Molecular Biology (1997). Employed by the Harvard University Farlow Herbarium as a curatorial/research associate. - - RTP Project Summary.


Jeff Lake. 1995. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Phylogenetic Relationships in the Family Musaceae (Order: Zingiberales). Dr. John Kress, Botany. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Ph.D. Duke University. National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the proposed study of the evolution of the banana family (1996). National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2001). University of Georgia Presidential Fellowship. The Democratic candidate for the Iowa State House of Representatives in District 58 (1996). Previously employed by Leonard Boswell, Congressman, US House of Representatives as a Research Analyst, Iowa Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee (2000).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Susan LaMontagne. 1988. George Washington University. Compositae Curation and Studies. Dr. Vicki Funk, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Katherine Langer. 1994. Norwich University (University of New Hampshire, Geology, 1997). A comparative study of amazoniite-bearing pegmatites. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Second Summer Opportunity. 1995. Amazonite use in the classification of Granitic Pegmatites. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. MS. 2002. Colorado School of Mines. Geochemistry.
- - RTP Project Summary 1994.


Susanne Marie Lassieur (Robertson). 1988. University of Arkansas - Little Rock (Biology, 1989). Mammalian Species Account. Dr. Don Wilson, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. Ph.D. (M.D.) 1997. University of Arkansas for Medical Science. Employed by the University of Arkansas, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as a resident physician.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Carolina Laughlin. 1999. University of Texas - Brownsville. Differentiating characters and geographic distribution of Bulia deducta and Bulia similaris (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Dr. Michael Pogue, Entomology. LSAMP Intern.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jonathan Lee. 1996. University of California - Berkeley (Integrative Biology, 1999). Systematic review of the genus Scopaeocharax. Dr. Stanley Weitzman, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Ph.D. 2005. Cornell University. Neurobiology and behavioral ecology. Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program Grant (1998). Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Intern (1998). Fubright Fellowship - New Zealand (1999). National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1999).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Wanda Kay Lewis. 1998. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces (Chemistry and Biology, 1998). Morphometric comparison of human crania with photographs. Ralph Chapman, Automatic Data Processing; Dr. Douglas Owsley, Anthropology. LSAMP Intern. Employed as a chemist in Chicago.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Irene Liao. 2008. University of California, Berkeley. Hybrid or Species: Unraveling the Taxonomic Status of Murdannia discreta (Commelinaceae), a Rare Plant from Thailand. Dr. Robert Faden, Botany. Max Berry Donation. - - RTP Project Summary.


Benjamin J. Linzmeier. 2007. Bowling Green State University. Ammonia test morphology: a quantitive analysis of variation. Dr. Martin Buzas, Paleobiology. NMNH Office of the Director.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Darren Locke
. 1996. Norwich University (Geology, 1997). Ordovician volcanism and its implications to the Taconic Orogeny. Dr. William Melson, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9531331). Second Summer Opportunity (1997).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Christina Lynn Lopano. 1999. Virginia Tech (Geological Sciences, 2001). The crystallization history of the Morefield pegmatite, Amelia, Virginia. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). MS. 2003. Pennsylvania State University. NMNH Graduate Student Fellowship (2002)
- - RTP Project Summary.


Lawrence N. Lopez. 1992. Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru). The Use of Genetic Markers to Characterize Hybridization Between Black-Capped and Carolina Chickadees. Dr. Michael Braun, Molecular Systematics Laboratory. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203). Employed by the government of Venezuela to conduct an ecological study of different islands in Lake Guri, Estado Bolivar.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kristina D. Louie. 1993. Colgate University (Occidental College, 1996). The Systematic Review of the Fish Genus Nomorhamphus. Dr. Bruce Collette, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). NMNH Field Assistant, Indonesia (1995). MS. 1996. Occidental College. Marine Biology. Ph.D. 2002. University of California - Los Angeles. Biology. Employed by UCLA as a teaching assistant.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Richard A. Lupia. 1991. University of Pennsylvania (Biology, 1991). Landscape Heterogeneity in the Permian. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology. James Smithson Society Intern. MS. 1994. University of Chicago. Evolutionary Biology. Ph.D. 1997. University of Chicago. "Paleoecology and Biogeography of early angiosperms." Previously employed by The Chicago Field Museum, Department of Geology as a post-doctorate research associate. Employed by University of Oklahoma in Norman as an Assistant Professor of Paleobiology.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Corrine Kay Lutz. 1988. Illinois Wesleyan University. Spiny Rat Systematics. Dr. Charles Handley, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals. MS. 1991. University of Massachusetts. "Foraging as environmental enrichment for rhesus monkeys."
- - RTP Project Summary.


Stephen Luzar. 1994. Augsburg College (Biology and Chemistry, 1995). Re-examination and enlargement of the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle data set. Dr. George Zug, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. Ph.D. (M.D.) University of Minnesota. - - RTP Project Summary.



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Carlos Maldonado. 1991. University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras (Biology, 1991). Reproductive structures in Halimeda. Dr. Jim Norris, Botany. James Smithson Society Intern. Ph.D. 1998. Wayne State University. "Elucidation mechanism by which tumor cells regulate vascular endothelia." Currently the Chief, Molecular & Operational Biotechnology Air Force Institute for Operational Health Molecular Epidemiology Branch of the U.S. Air Force (2003). - - RTP Project Summary.


Elisa Maldonado. 2000. University of California - Los Angeles (Biology, 2002). Deep-sea feather stars from the Bahama Islands. Dr. David Pawson, Invertebrate Zoology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). Ph.D. 2009. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Marine Biology. Bioluminescence laboratory. NMNH Short Term Visitor (2001).
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2002). National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2002). Minority Acess to Science, Engineering and Mathematics Fellowship (2003). Sylvia Chavez Memorial Scholarship (2004).Program Assistant (2003, 2004).- - RTP Project Summary.

Jennifer Maloney. 2003. West Virginia University. Mountain Pegmatite. Dr. Michael Wise, Mineral Sciences. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-0243512). - - RTP Project Summary.


Melanie Mann. 2000. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Utilization of non-traditional craniometrics to distinguish among 19th century museum populations. Dr. Steve Ousley, Anthropology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303). NMNH Short Term Visitor (2001).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Jonathan Marcot. 1994. University of Arizona. The phylogenetic analysis of gastropods during the permo-triassic extinction. Dr. Douglas Erwin, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). MS. University of Arizona. Ph.D. 2002. University of Chicago. Evolutionary Biology. NMNH Short Term Visitor (1996 & 1997). National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1998).
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1997). - - RTP Project Summary.


Consuelo Marino. 1992. University of Colorado. Taxonomy and Isotopic Analysis of Late Campanian to Maastrichtian Planktonic Foraminifera. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DIR-9200203).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Molly Jeanette Markey. 1998. Bowling Green State University, Ohio (Paleobiology and Russian, 2000). Planktonic foraminiferal assemblage and stable isotopic changes across the Aptian/Albian boundary oceanic anoxic event. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: EAR-9732416). Employed by Bowling Green State University. Toledo Gem and Rockhound Club Scholarship (1999). Ph.D. 2006. Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology.
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (2002 and 2001). - - RTP Project Summary.


Amy Marquardt
. 2007. Coe College. The Origin of Hopewell Extraterrestrial Metal and its Anthropological Implications. Dr. Tim McCoy and Dr. Ed Vicenzi, Mineral Sciences. Smithsonian Women’s Committee. - - RTP Project Summary.

Cecily Marroquin 2007. New Mexico State University. Quantifying Disease in Societies without Epidemiological Records. Alain Touwaide. Botany. Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund.- - RTP Project Summary.


Barnaby Marsh. 1994. Cornell University. A systematic revision of Indo-pacific Symphurine tongue fishes. Dr. Thomas Munroe, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. NSF REU Intern (Award: BIR-9300225). Second Summer Opportunity. 1995. A systematic revision of Indo-pacific Symphurine tongue fishes. Dr. Thomas Munroe, Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes. Ph.D. 1999. Oxford University. Bird Behavior. The Rhodes Scholarship (1995).
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, honorable mention (1996). Currently employed by Oxford University as a research scientist focusing on behavorial science and ecology. - - RTP Project Summary 1994.


Sara Marsteller
. 2006.Cornell College. Evidence of scurvy in North American archaeological skeletal remains. Dr. Donald Ortner, Antropology. NMNH Office of the Director. - - RTP Project Summary.


Erik Martin. 2000. Los Angeles Valley College (University of California - San Diego, Biology, 2003). Changes in variation and character correlation of Neuropteris ovata through existence in fossil record. Dr. William DiMichele, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Christine Martinez. 1988. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. African Rodent Systematics. Dr. Michael Carleton, Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Juan Andres Martinez
. 2006. University of te Republic of Uruguay. Geographic Variation in "Grey Four Eyed Pouched Oppossums" Genus Philander (Didelphiomorphia, Didelphidae). Dr. Don Wilson, Vertebrate Zoology. Mammals. Bill and Jean Lane Endowment Intern. - - RTP Project Summary.


Randy Matis. 1984. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Gramineae Curation. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, Botany. NMNH Inventory Technician (1984-1985).
- - RTP Project Summary.


June M. Mauceri. 1987. State University of New York - Binghamton. Gesneriaceae Cultivation. Dr. Laurence Skog, Botany. MS. University of California - Berkeley. Plant Pathology.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Kim McAllister. 1985. Davidson College. D.C. Herbarium Curation and Spring Flowering List. Dr. Stanwyn Shetler, Botany.
- - RTP Project Summary.


Heather Kristen McCarren. 2002. Ohio State University (Geological Sciences, 2003). Phylogeny and depth ecology of the Late Cretaceous planktonic foraminifer species of Globigerinelloides. - - Virtual Poster. Dr. Brian Huber, Paleobiology. NSF REU Intern (Award: DBI-9820303).
Ph.D. 2009. University of California - Santa Cruz. Earth Sciences.- - RTP Project Summary.


Ryan James Robert McCleary
. 1991. Western Michigan University (Biology, 1993). An account for the Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (Phyllorhynchus decuratus). Dr. Roy McDiarmid, Vertebrate Zoology - Reptiles and Amphibians.
Smithsonian Women's Committee Intern. MS. Virginia Tech. Environmental Endocrinology. Employed by Kalamazoo Valley Community College as a Professor of Biology (1995). Currently employed by Virginia Tech as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. - - RTP Project Summary.


Jill McElderry (McElderry-Maxwell). 1991. Swarthmore College (Anthropology, 1992). Paleobotanical and Paleoecological Studies in Wyoming. Dr. Scott Wing, Paleobiology. James Smithson Society Intern. Ph.D. Kent State University (withdrew). "Functional anatomy/development of hominoid lumbar column." NMNH Field Assistant (1992 & 1993). NMNH Contractor (1994). Previously employed as a Spanish Teacher.Currently a mother and part-time technical writer working towards elementary education certification (2002).
- - RTP Project Summary.


Joseph Hugh McGuiness
.