Life-long interest in mollusks, particularly land snails and especially the terrestrial mollusks of Sicily, an under-studied group, on an under-studied island.

Western Atlantic bivalves

Collections management

EDUCATION

BSA in Biological Sciences, University of Georgia, 1991. Concentration in Zoology, with coursework in herpetology, marine biology, biodiversity, and pre-veterinary studies.

PRESENT POSITION

Scientific Assistant, Malacology, American Museum of Natural History, 2004 to present.

Duties include collection management (of dry, alcohol-preserved, type, and photographic transparency collections), database management, website design and maintenance, registrarial work, participation in public educational programs (i.e., annual Identification Day), and assisting curator/supervisor (Dr. Paula Mikkelsen) with research needs (including collections duties, website design, scientific illustration, scanning electron microscopy, histology).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Zoology

IATA certified

Certificate of Laboratory Fitness

Biological Technician II, Fish & Wildlife Associates, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1992. Contract work for Tennessee Valley Authority, Aquatic Biology Laboratory, Zebra Mussel Monitoring Project. Collected field samples and did micoscope checks for presence of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) veligers in Tennessee rivers and lakes. Also worked on monitoring project for Asiatic clams (Corbicula fluminea).

Internship in Herpetology Department, Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia; 1991. Assisted keepers with maintenance of exhibits, preparation of diets, and care of animals in education and reptile departments.

Volunteer at various nature centers, 1990-1993.

Veterinary Assistant, Shallowford Animal Hospital, Marietta, Georgia, 1987-1988. Prepared laboratory tests, assisted in surgery; also responsible for care and medication of animals.

Art

Freelance Illustrator and Artist; 1992 to present. Biological illustration in several techniques, original drawings and paintings, commissioned works.

Exhibitions, from 1995 to present. Most recent entitled Mollusca, featured oil paintings of mollusks.

Lived in Italy (Florence and Sicily), 1999-2003. Persued oil painting, etching, and continued illustration work.

Original scientific illustrations appearing in:

Mikkelsen, P. M., R. Bieler, T. A. Rawlings, and I. Kappner. In review. Phylogeny of Veneroidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta) based on morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Bartolozzi, Luca and Alessandra Sforzi. In review. Cervi volanti (Coleoptera Lucanidae), CD-ROM. Ed. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy.

Bartolozzi, Luca. Contribution to the knowledge of the Tasmanian lucanids, with a description of two new species of Lissotes Westwood, 1855 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Monograph Museo reg. Scienza naturale. Torino, 35 (2003): 329-342.

Interpretive sign panels for visitors center in the Natural Reserves of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, more than fifty illustrations of aquatic insects.

Envirolink newsletter, 1994-1996.

Employee handbook for Fish & Wildlife Associates, group based in North Carolina, 1992.

Georgia Herpetological Society newsletter, 1990-1992.

PRESENTATIONS

Shells from the Jungle: Mollusks from the American Museum of Natural History Belgian Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

• November 13, 2005 New York Shell Club
  
• March 4, 2006 Mid-Atlantic Malacologists Meeting
  
• May 1, 2006 Jersey Cape Shell Club
  

MEMBERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Employee Recognition award, AMNH
New York Shell Club
American Malacological Society
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
Listed in the 2005 edition of The Artists’ Bluebook: American Artists to 2005

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