Staff and other Personnel

Curator

Kelly B. Miller, PhD, Assistant Proffesor: kbmiller(AT)unm.edu Note:(AT) = @

Research: Beetle (Dytiscidae, Hydradephaga, Cucujoidea), web-spinner (Embiidina),

and grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) phylogeny and systematics.

Senior Collection Managers

Sandra L. Brantley, PhD, Research Associate Professor: sbrantle(AT)unm.edu

Research: Spider ecology, systematics.

David C. Lightfoot, PhD, Research Associate Professor: dlightfo(AT)unm.edu

Research: Grasshopper, cricket, katydid systematics, ecology).

Graduate Student Museum Assistant

Karen Wetherill Doctoral Student
Research: Systematics and ecology of Southwest native bees)

Emeritus Curators

Clifford Crawford, PhD (Rio Grande bosque ecology, education-outreach).
Manuel Molles, PhD (Rio Grande bosque ecology, carabid beetle and aquatic insect systematics).

Associates

Jean-Luc Cartron, PhD, Museum Research Associate (Rio Grande bosque ecology).

Ana Davidson, PhD, Museum Research Associate (Chihuahuan Desert grassland ecology).

Eric Metzler, PhD, Museum Research Associate (moth (Lepidoptera) systematics).

Robert Parmenter, PhD, Museum Research Associate (disease ecology).

Ernest Valdez, PhD, Museum Research Associate (insects and bats).

Michele Price, PhD, Museum Research Associate (sap beetle (Nitidulidae) systematics).

Graduate Students

Karen Wetherill, doctoral sutdent (systematics and ecology of Southwest native bees).

Heidi Hopkins, doctoral student (systematics and behavior of cockroaches).

Monica Tellez, doctoral student (Venezualen water beetle systematics).

Julie McIntyre, PhD candidate, (insect conservation and population ecology).

Mike Medrano, PhD candidate, (systematics of millipedes).

Eugenio Nearns, doctoral student, (systematics of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae)).

Nathan Lord, doctoral student, (systematics of bothriderid beetles (Bothrideridae)).

Undergraduate Museum Technicians and Research

Elizabeth Montano, Museum Technician.

Emily Hodson, Museum Technician.

William Edelman, Museum Technician and research on the systematics of band-winged

grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae).

Nicole Telles, Museum Technician and research on the systematics of certain subterranean diving beetles.

April Tafyoa, Ecology and systematics of subterranean aquatic insects.

Museum Volunteers

Sharyn Davidson, Museum Technician.