Scorpion Systematics Research Group

Jeremy Huff was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up in Picton, Ontario, where he worked with his father, Thomas Huff, at The Reptile Breeding Foundation and later at a public exhibit of live reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates called The Exotarium. He started his undergraduate degree at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, and is presently completing it at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Huff’s main research interest is the systematics of the whip scorpions (Thelyphonida) and he plans to undertake a PhD in the subject under the guidance of Dr. Lorenzo Prendini. He volunteered in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology assisting with the upkeep of the Arachnid and Myriapod Collections from 2003–2007. He also worked part-time at the AMNH for Dr. Kimberly Russell photographing spiders for her project, SPIDA. Huff has extensive field experience collecting arachnids in Belize, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grand Cayman, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Senegal, South Africa and the southwestern USA. He has done 10 field trips to date for the AMNH and has collected several thousand specimens and discovered many new species.