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Regina Wetzerrwetzer@nhm.org 213-763-3217 Director, MPBC Third Floor, Crustacea Lab University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, Ph.D. 2000, Biology. Collections Management Consultant for San Diego Natural History Museum, 1993. Senior Collections Manager, Department of Marine Invertebrates, San Diego Natural History Museum, 1987-1993. Collections Manager, Invertebrate Section, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Museum, 1985-1987. Morphological and molecular crustacean systematist. Invertebrate taxonomist. Relational database design for museum collections, laboratory information management systems, and bibliographic inventories. Extensive experience in database development, construction, and analysis. |
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Kathy Omurakomura@nhm.org 213-763-3386 Collections Manager Ground Floor, NE Wing of 1914 Museum University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, B.S. 1987, Wildlife Management. Laboratory Supervisor, Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii-Manoa. Laboratory Technician, Institute of Marine Science, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Benthic invertebrate sample processing, curation, identification, and taxonomy. Extensive invertebrate taxonomic experience with emphasis on polychaete worms. Training and supervision of students and laboratory assistants. Quality control of data entry and taxonomic identifications. |
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Kris Netchyknetchy@nhm.org 213-763-3386 Curatorial Assistant Ground Floor, NE Wing of 1914 Museum University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, B.S. 2004, Zoology. Research and Field Assistant, University of Guam Marine Laboratory, 2006-2008. Research Assistant and Molecular Lab Technician, Florida Museum of Natural History, 2005-2006. Collections Assistant, Florida Museum of Natural History, 2003-2006. Marine invertebrate taxonomy, particularly knowledgeable regarding tropical aspidochirote holothurians. Marine invertebrate evolution, speciation, and biogeography. I absolutely love learning about all aspects of marine invertebrate biodiversity and natural history through curation and observation of live organisms in the field! |
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Cynthia GodfreyStudent Assistant University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Cynthia is a Pre-Med undergraduate majoring in Health and Humanity and minoring in International Relations. She loves anything related to the ocean, including water sports such as jet skiing. She can outrace anyone! Working with the MBPC represents an amazing opportunity for her to explore biology “outside the book,” and she hopes that it will open the door to opportunities such as research and fieldwork across the world. After practicing as a Hematologist and Oncologist, Cynthia will retire to a tiny cottage on the shores of Fiji watching the sunset and singing her favorite tunes by The Strokes. |
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Kristan CulbertStudent Assistant University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Kristan is a sophomore pursuing a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies as well as searching for a major course of study she will fall hopelessly in love with. She hopes to go on to either grad school or medical school and eventually work for a NGO. She enjoys speaking French to anyone who will listen, loves chemistry, reading, going for long hikes in the wilderness and on occasion pretending she is Julia Child. Kristan hopes to get really cozy with the specimens she is organizing and to explore the “dungeon” under the NHM. |
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Saw HtunStudent Assistant University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Saw is a freshman majoring in Biology with pre-med emphasis and doubling in Political Science. She is debating whether or not to add a minor in Fine Arts. Saw is interested in anything scientific, and is excited to work in a place that is committed to scientific pursuits. When she’s not handling dead animals or has her face stuck in a book, she likes to draw, listen to music and figure out how to expand her artistic side. |
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Darolyn Strileydstriley@nhm.org 213-763-3386 Curatorial Assistant University of California Los Angeles, Westwood, California, B.A. 2002, Women's Studies. Darolyn worked for our Museum five years ago as Curatorial Assistant in the Crustacea Department where she helped move the University of Southern California Allan Hancock Foundation collection. She coordinated volunteers and workstudy students into a team who helped shelve in taxonomic order the 100,000+ lot collection. She enjoys sorting and identifying invertebrates and encountering specimens in the field, like this ocypodid crab in Huatulco, Mexico, which seconds later took a chunk off her finger. |
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Celia Carterceliacar@usc.edu 213-763-3386 Student Assistant University of Southern California Los, Angeles, California. Celia is a sophomore at the University of Southern California and is currently majoring in Communication. She would like to double major in Cinema Production and later direct music videos or mix movie soundtracks. Working at the museum has definitely given Celia insight to all of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes. Researchers don't just go out into the field, pick up dead animals and put them on display. There is so much more that is done that no one even knows about, but she's slowly learning. She'd like to give a shout out to the echinoderms chillin' on the shelves of the collection room. |
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Jessica Wedemeyerjwedemey@usc.edu 213-763-3386 Student Assistant University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Jessica is a Freshman studying theater and broadcast journalism. Ever since she was a child, Jessica has loved museums. She's very excited to be working behind the scenes now, making her small mark on information that'll be around for decades to come. Besides playing with animals that have been dead, some for 30 years or more, Jessica enjoys music, movies and searching for new hand creams to moisturize her alcohol dried out hands. |
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Neftali (Nefty) Camachoncamacho@nhm.org 213-763-3386 Curatorial Assistant California State Polytechnic, Pomona, California, B.S. 2002, Zoology. Teaching Assistant, Invertebrate Zoology, Cal Poly Pomona, 2000-2002. Laboratory Assistant, Entomology, Cal Poly Pomona, 2000-2002. Research Assistant, Entomology, Cal Poly Pomona, 2000-2001. General marine invertebrate curation, identification, and taxonomy. Experience in identification and curation of insect families both terrestrial and aquatic. Field research experience capturing and identifying Hymenopterans (bees, wasps). Nefty's interests are phylogeny and social animal behavior. His fascination in phylogeny stems from his interests in family trees, figuring out where organisms came from and how they changed over time. His interest in animal social behavior is rooted from observing his flock of pet guinea hens interacting with one another. He hopes his work adds to the preservation and knowledge of our natural world. |
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Krista ZalaCuratorial Assistant University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, B.S. 2001, Biology and Women's Studies. While spending weekends on the shores around Vancouver Island, Canada, Krista developed a great fascination for intertidal creatures and seaweeds. In field courses while working on her undergraduate degree at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Center (BMSC), she studied the morphological diversity of Macrocystis intergrifolia, used fitness models to predict brooding and broadcast spawning in benthic invertebrates, and studied dialect change in killer whales. She has worked as a nature interpreter, a research assistant at BMSC, and as a public educator at The Land Conservancy of British Columbia. Now that she's in L.A., the MBPC has her surrounded by marine snails -- let's hope she can outrun them! |
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