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Paleobiogeography of the Caribbean


Funding from NSF (DEB-1314749, DEB-1050187, DEB-1050253)

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Ingi Agnarsson - Principal investigator
Assistant professor, University of Vermont 
Responsible for organization, data, and analyzes, taxonomic expert on Theridiidae.

Email: iagnarsson@gmail.com
Web: http://www.theridiidae.com/ingi-agnarsson.html

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Greta Binford - Principal investigator
Associate professor, Lewis & Clark College
Responsible for organization, data, and analyzes, taxonomic expert on Loxosceles, coordinating Dominican Republic outreach efforts.
Email: binford@lclark.edu
Web: http://legacy.lclark.edu/~binford/

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Paul Selden - co PI
Gulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor of Invertebrate Paleontology
, University of Kansas
Responsible for fossil collections and analyzes.

Email: selden@ku.edu
Web: http://homepage.mac.com/paulselden/Home/

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Lauren Esposito - Postdoc
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Responsible for organization, permits, analyzes, taxonomic expert on scorpions.

Email: esposito@amnh.org
Web: http://research.amnh.org/iz/staff/lauren-esposito

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Anne McHugh
PhD student, University of Vermont
Biogeography and dispersal of Micrathena and Gasteracantha, Biogeography of Deinopis, Field Coordinator
Email: akmchugh@uvm.edu
Web: http://www.theridiidae.com/lab-members.html


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Sohath Zamira Yusseff Vanegas - Researcher
PhD student, University of Vermont
Biogeography and systematic of the Calliphoridae in the West Indies, field coordinator

Email: sohath.yusseff@gmail.com
Web: http://www.theridiidae.com/lab-members.html

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Erin Saupe - Collaborator
Master's student, University of Kansas
Taxonomic expert on fossil spiders.
Web: http://www.people.ku.edu/~eesaupe/

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Matjaz Kuntner - Collaborator
Research Associate,
Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Taxonomic expert on Araneidae, Tetragnathidae, and Nephilidae
Email: Kuntner@gmail.com
Web: http://www.nephilidae.com/mk/index.htm

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Jonathan Coddington - Collaborator
Associate Director of Research and Collections, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Scientific adviser, frozen tissue collection 
Web: http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/coddington.html

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Rosemary Gillespie - Collaborator
Schlinger Chair of Systematics and Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Scientific adviser, taxonomic expert on Tetragnathidae
Web: http://nature.berkeley.edu/~gillespi/Home.html

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Carol Yablonsky - Research Technician
University of Vermont
Technician support
Email: cyablons1@gmail.com

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Wayne Maddison - Collaborator
Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia
Taxonomic expert on Salticidae
Web:
http://salticidae.org/wpm/home.html

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Junxia Zhang - Collaborator
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia
Taxonomic expert on Salticidae
Web: 
http://mesquiteproject.org/wpm/zhangjx/index.html

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Todd Blackledge - Collaborator
Leuchtag Endowed Chair and Associate Professor
, University of Akron
Scientific adviser, molecular phylogenetics of Araneidae
Web: http://ww
: hw3.uakron.edu/biology/blackledge/index.htm

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Bernhard Huber - Collaborator
Curator and Section Leader, Koenig Museum
Taxonomic expert on Pholcidae
Web: http://www.zfmk.de/web/ZFMK_Mitarbeiter/HuberBernhard_A/index.de.html

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Jeremy Miller - Collaborator
Researcher, Naturalis
Taxonomic expert on Linyphiidae
Web: http://science.naturalis.nl/research/people/cv/miller

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Norman Platnick - Collaborator
Peter J. Solomon Family Curator, American Museum of Natural History

Taxonomic expert on Oonopidae
Web - the World Spider Catalog: http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog/

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Nadine Dupérré- Collaborator
Scientific Illustrator and Researcher, American Museum of Natural History
Taxonomic expert on Oonopidae and Linyphiidae
Web - http://research.amnh.org/iz/staff/nadine-dup%C3%A9rr%C3%A9

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Abel Pérez González - Collaborator
Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Taxonomic expert on Opilionids, local collaborator Cuba
Web: http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/abelpapers.htm

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Mark Harvey - Collaborator
Head of Department and Curator - Arachnids & Myriapods
Western Australian Museum
Taxonomic expert on Pseudoscorpions
Web: http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/research/collections/terrestrial-zoology/arachnid-and-myriapod-collection

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Alexander Sánchez Ruiz - Collaborator
Curator and Chair, BIOECO, Cuba
Taxonomic expert on Caponidae, Drymusidae, local collaborator Cuba, coordinator of fieldwork in Cuba
Web: http://www.bioeco.co.cr


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Franklyn Cala Riquelme - Collaborator
Researcher, BIOECO, Cuba, prospective PhD student
Taxonomic expert on Salticidae, local collaborator Cuba
Web:
http://www.bioeco.co.cr

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Rolando Teruel - Collaborator
Director, BIOECO, Cuba
Taxonomic expert on various arachnids
   
Web: http://www.bioeco.co.cr

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Giraldo Alayon - Collaborator
Curator, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cuba
Taxonomic expert on various arachnids, local collaborator Cuba

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Aylin Alegre - Collaborator
Researcher, Institute of Ecology and Systematics, Cuba
Taxonomic expert in Opiliones, local collaborator Cuba
Email: aylinalegre@gmail.com
Web: http://www.ecosis.cu

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René  Barba - Collaborator
Researcher, Institute of Ecology and Systematics, Cuba
Taxonomic expert on Pseudoscorpiones, local collaborator Cuba

Email: renelilo@hotmail.com
Web:  http://www.ecosis.cu

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Jo-Anne Sewlal - Collaborator
PhD candidate, University of the West Indies
Taxonomic expert on various spiders, local collaborator Trinidad and Tobago
Web: http://www.caribbeanspiders.com/

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Carlos Viquez - Collaborator
Arachnid curator and Collection manager, INBio
Local collaborator Costa Rica, organizor of collecting in Central America

Web: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/remib_ingles/doctos/inbio-arachnids.html

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Gilbert Barrantes - Collaborator
Professor, University of Costa Rica
Local collaborator Costa Rica
Web: http://museo.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/Personal.htm

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Hannah Madden - Collaborator
National Park Ranger, STENAPA, St. Eustatius
Local collaborator St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles
Web: http://web.me.com/hannah.madden/Site/About_Me.html

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Julia Horrocks - Collaborator
Professor, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Local collaborator Barbados
Web: http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/FPAS/bcs/staff/jah/

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Dominican Outreach, father Dale Johnson - Collaboration and outreach
Program serving the neglected, abandoned, and homeless. Teaching children the value of biodiversity
Local collaborators and outreach in Dominican Republic
Web: http://dominicanoutreach.webs.com/

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Trevor Bloom - Research Assistant
Lewis and Clark College Alumni
Biology
Email: kauaibloom@gmail.com



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Ian Petersen - Undergraduate
Lewis and Clark College
Biology
Email: iap@lclark.edu



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Alex Nishida ­- Undergraduate
Lewis and Clark College
Biology and Hispanic Studies
Email: ahn@lclark.edu


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Katy Loubet-Senear - Undergraduate
Lewis and Clark College
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
kjloubetsenear@lclark.edu



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Laura Caicedo-Quiroga- Collaborator
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus Alumni
Prospective PhD student and local collaborator in Puerto Rico.
lra.caicedo@gmail.com

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Dylan Herman - Undergraduate
University of Vermont
Neuroscience and Mathematics
Email: dylanleahh@gmail.com

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Lisa Chamberland - Undergraduate
University of Vermont
Email: Lisa.Chamberland@uvm.edu

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Caroline Blake - Undergraduate
University of Vermont
Email: Caroline.Blake@uvm.edu

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Julia Mui - Undergraduate
University of Vermont
Email: Julia.Mui@uvm.edu

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James Hinckley - Undergraduate
University of Vermont
Email: James.Hinckley@uvm.edu

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Our AMAZING Undergraduate Research Team!!
UPR students: Diego Agostini, Laura Caicedo, Angela Alicea and Jose Rivera
Lewis and Clark College students: Trevor Bloom and Ian Peterson
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UVM students: Carol Yablonsky, Caroline Blake, Lisa Chamberland, James Hinckley, Julia Mui

Biogeography of spiders in the Indian Ocean

Funding from National Geographic Society (8655-09 and GEFNE29-11)

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Ingi Agnarsson - Principal investigator
Assistant professor, University of Vermont
Responsible for organization, data, and analyzes, taxonomic expert on Theridiidae.
Web: 
http://www.theridiidae.com/ingi-agnarsson.html

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Matjaz Kuntner - Principal Investigator
Research Associate, Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Responsible for organization, data, and analyzes, t
axonomic expert on Araneidae, Tetragnathidae, and Nephilidae
Web: http://www.nephilidae.com/mk/index.htm

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