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Department Volunteers and Interns
Jim Berrian
An SDSU graduate way back in 1978, Jim began at the museum as a volunteer
and staff in the Herpetology Department in 1976. He has been a volunteer
in the Entomology Department since 1994 working with the spider collection.
He is interested in the distribution of spiders in San Diego County and
the Baja California peninsula. Jim is also working on a field guide to
the county’s spider fauna. He teaches high school biology to pay
the bills.
Rani Moshe Cohen
Born in Netanya, Israel, Rani studies at SDSU
with an emphasis in Zoology. He is very interested in insect behavior
and has
collected and studied insects in captivity in North America and the neotropics.
Rani also has experience with various kinds of amphibians and reptiles.
He speaks English, Hebrew and Spanish. From July through August 2006,
Rani worked in the collection
databasing velvet ants (Mutillidae) and photographing specimens for future
SDNHM insect field guides.
Nick Daish
Nick has been volunteering in the department since January 2006. He is
developing protocols for our collection inventory and has become intimately
familiar with the Buprestidae in the process.
Everett Douglas
A marine biologist by training, Everett has spent most of his life working
as an environmental scientist in the military. Now retired, Everett has
been instrumental in developing a class about aquatic insects. He is now
working with Michael Wall to organize the museum's native bee collection.
Emily Finley
Emily was an intern from Francis Parker High School in Spring of 2006.
Emily inventoried the museum's Sesiidae and field guide pages for
some members of the group. Emily learned about the biology and classification
of this interesting group of moths, and became familiar with web page authoring,
digital photography, and GIS. She started at Stanford in fall of 2007.
Daniel David Gonzaléz López
Daniel is from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and is studying at the University
of Sonora in the Biology Department. He is member of the Southwestern Association
of Naturalists (SWAN). Daniel is bilingual in Spanish and English and worked
in the collection databasing hawk moths (Sphingidae) and translating online
insect field guides into Spanish in July 2006.
Contact Daniel
Andrew Arthur Hodnet
Andrew is from Encinitas, California and is currently a Biology undergraduate
at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is interested in all forms
of entomology, arachnology in particular. He has extensive volunteer
experience in both the Biology Department at UCSC as well as the San Diego
Natural History Museum where he databased stink bugs originating from Madagascar
in August 2006.
Contact Andrew
Jorge A. Huez Martinez
Jorge is from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico,
and is studying at the University of Sonora in the Biology
Department. He is interested in desert ecosystems, particularly plants.
Jorge is bilingual in Spanish and English and speaks a little bit
of French. Jorge worked in the collection databasing hawk moths (Sphingidae)
and translating online insect field guides into Spanish in July 2006.
Contact Jorge
John Linkins
John lives locally in San Diego and is currently organizing the department's
collection of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies). John has broad experience
in entomology and has done survey and trapping work in Florida.
Francisco Arturo Ibarra Acosta
Arturo was born in Tabasco, Mexico, but has lived in Hermosillo,
Sonora since 1991. He is a Biology student at the Universidad de Sonora.
Arturo has always been interested in animals (reptile, spiders, scorpions,
ants, and others), but is especially interested in ants. An avid collector,
Arturo has been doing ecological and behavioral studies of Pogonomyrmex and
hopes to work with Neotropical ants some day. He is bilingual and a member
of Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Arturo worked in the collection
curating our ants and produced new online ant field guides in the summer
of 2006.
Contact Arturo
Kingsley Jackson
A Price Scholar studying at City College, Kingsley has been crucial for
inventorying the collection. Kingsley also began photographing specimens
of San Diego butterflies for upcoming field guides.
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