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| Team - United States of America |
| Principal Investigators and Co-PIs |
Melanie Stiassny
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Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Ph.D. American Museum of Natural History Department of Ichthyology Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Voice: 212 769 5796 Fax: 212 769 5642 Email:mljs@amnh.org http://research.amnh.org/ichthyology/staff/mljs/mljs.html Melanie Stiassny is Axelrod Curator of Ichthyology and the PI for the Ichthyological component of the Congo Project. |
Robert Schelly
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Robert Schelly, Ph.D. American Museum of Natural History Department of Ichthyology Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Voice: 212 496 3664 Fax: 212 769 5642 Email: schelly@amnh.org homepage: under construction Robert Schelly is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Co-PI for the Ichthyological component of the Congo Project. |
Daniel "Zambongo" Graf
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Daniel Graf, Ph.D. Center for Systematic Biology & Evolution Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 USA Voice: (215) 299-1132 graf@acnatsci.org Dan Graf is Assistant Curator of Malacology and the PI for the Malacological component of the Congo Project. |
| Participants |
a very "retro" Ned Gardiner
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Ned Gardiner National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 Voice: 828-271-4800 x3167 Email: Ned.Gardiner@noaa.gov Ned Gardiner is a Senior Geographic and Ecosystems Specialist and GIS expert for the Congo Project. Ned recently took a position with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in North Carolina. |
John Shelton working his magic
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John M. Shelton Associate Director-Hydrologic Data, US Geological Survey South Carolina Water Science Center Stephenson Center, Suite 129, 720 Gracern Rd. Columbia, SC 29210-7651 Voice: 803-750-6112 Email: jmshelto@usgs.gov John Shelton is a hydrologist with the South Carolina Water Science Center of the US Geological Survey. John collected bathymetry, three-dimensional velocity profiles, and flow data using an acoustic Doppler current profiler to better define and describe the hydraulic and hydrologic conditions of the Lower Congo River. |
Ian Harrison
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Ian Harrison, Ph.D. American Museum of Natural History Department of Ichthyology Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Voice: 212 313 7796 Fax: 212 769 5642 Email: harrison@amnh.org Ian Harrison is Project Coordinator, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, and a GIS expert for the Congo Project. |
| Graduate Students |
Hugo Escobar
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Hugo Escobar American Museum of Natural History Department of Ichthyology Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Voice: 212 769 5760 Fax: 212 769 5642 Email: hescobar@amnh.org Hugo Escobar is a graduate student at the City University of New York and the American Museum of Natural History. Hugo's thesis research will concentrate on the systematics and taxonomy of the alestid genus Micralestes utilizing both morphological and molecular approaches. |
Jacob Heen Lowenstein
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Jacob Heen Lowenstein American Museum of Natural History Department of Ichthyology Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Voice: 212 769 5138 Fax: 212 769 5642 Email: jlowenstein@amnh.org Jake Lowenstein is a graduate student at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History. |
Sara Josenhans
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Sara Josenhans Columbia University EEEB Email: slj2111@columbia.edu Sara Josenhans has recently completed a postbacc in Environmental Biology at Columbia University and is planning on attending graduate school in Fall 2008. She is currently volunteering with the Congo Project and is learning fish identification techniques. Together with Melanie Stiassny, Sara is currently sorting and identifying specimens collected this Summer in the Ndjili and N'sele Rivers, DRC. |
| Undergraduate Students |
Kaythi Han
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Kaythi Han Kaythi Han, formerly an undergraduate at Columbia University, undertook research for her senior thesis at the museum. Kaythi collected molecular and morphometric data from specimens of the cichlid genus, Teleogramma and successfully defended an honors thesis on the subject. An abstract of Kaythi's thesis is available for download (25th abstract). |
Antonia Florio |
Antonia Florio Antonia Florio, formerly an undergraduate at City College (and currently a graduate student in the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History, was our 2007 AMNH Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates intern. Antonia undertook an investigation of the cichlid genus Teleogramma in the Lower Congo River utilizing molecular, morphometric and GIS data in her study. |
Zach Tarleton |
Zach Tarleton Zach Tarleton, a recent graduate of the University of Georgia (biology major), joined the team in New York City in early June 2007. Zach worked with Ian Harrison, developing GIS applications for the Congo Project. In addition to GIS research, Zach learned a range of museum curation proceedures including taking and digitizing xray images of Lower Congo fish species and adding these to the website. |
Rowen Morioka |
Rowen Morioka Rowen Morioka, an undergraduate at Purchase College, spent Summer 2008 working on an REU project investigating the phylogeography of the cichlid genus Lamprologus in the Lower and Central Congo River. |
Jennifer Loucks |
Jennifer Loucks Undergraduate intern, Jennifer a postbac at Columbia University, spent the Summer 2008 assisting in the molecular lab. She learnt extraction and sequencing techniques and generated mtDNA gene sequences for a large series of Lamprologus, Teleogramma, and Garra from many localities along the lower Congo River. |
| High School Students |
Alex Capraro |
Alex Capraro Alex Capraro, a student at Cardozo High School, worked on cichlid morphometrics for the Congo Project. |
Jesús Heath |
Jesús Heath
Jesús Heath, a student at Science Technology and Research High School (STAR), worked on cichlid morphometrics for the Congo Project. |
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