Entomologist Michael Wall conducts research on insect evolution and spearheads the biodiversity research and conservation efforts at The Nat. More .
Pamela Horsley oversees the day-to-day activities in the entomology collection and provides collection registration services across the Museum. More .
Jon Rebman specializes in cacti and the floras of the southern California and the Baja California regions. More .
Layla Aerne Hains cares for the nearly 300,000 specimens in our herbarium and manages departmental digitization efforts.
Philip Unitt wrote the book on birds—literally. He studies the distribution, ecology, history, identification, and conservation of California birds.
Paleontologist Tom Deméré studies the origin and evolution of marine mammals and heads up the Museum’s paleontological mitigation services program.