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Curriculum Vitae

Kimberly Norris Russell (Maiden Name: Kimberly Carol Norris)

Date and place of birth: July 27, 1970, Rochester, NY

Education:

1993-2000 Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Major Professor, Susan E. Riechert

1988-1992 Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum laude, Honors in Biology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Positions Held:

2009 (Fall)-present University Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

2006-present. Research Scientist, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

2007 (Fall) Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

2007 (Fall) Part-time Lecturer, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2007 (Spring) Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY

2006-2009. Research Associate Professor, Federated Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

2002–2005. Post-doctoral Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

2001-2002 Juliana Wilson Thompson Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH

2001 (April-August) Research Associate, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

2001-present Visiting Researcher, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University, NY

1999-2000 Post-doctoral Research Scientist, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University, NY

1996 (July/August) Visiting Scientist, University of Paisley, Scotland, UK

1993-1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Offices:

1998-1999 Vice-President, Southern Appalachian Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology

1996-1997 President, Graduate Researchers in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of Tennessee

1996 Coordinator, Graduate Student Outreach Program (educational visits to local schools) sponsored by Graduate Researchers in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of Tennessee

1995-1996, 1998 Member, Graduate Affairs Committee, University of Tennessee

1994-1995 Officer, Graduate Organization of the Department of Zoology, University of Tennessee

Grants and Awards:

2006 NCEAS Distributed Graduate Seminar (Seminar Leader): Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes.

2006 NSF Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) #0613754 (Named Investigator): The Megadiverse, Microdistributed Spider Family Oonopidae, $2.6 million

2005 Travel Grant, National Science Foundation $3300

2001 NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment (IDEA) #0119578 (Co-PI): A Neural Network Based Automated Identification System for Biological Species, $796,818 [PI: Dr. Norman Platnick, AMNH]

2001 Juliana Wilson Thompson Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology (endowed position), The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, $2000

1999 Science Alliance Graduate Student Award of Excellence, Division of Biology of the University of Tennessee, $3000

1999 Merit Award, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of the University of Tennessee, $2500

1998 Science Alliance Upgrade, Division of Biology of the University of Tennessee, $3000

1998 Travel Grant, Society for Conservation Biology, $1000

1998 Travel Grant, The Graduate School of the University of Tennessee, $500

1998 Travel Grant, The Division of Biology of the University of Tennessee, $200

1997 Ralph M. Sargent Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Highlands Biological Foundation, Inc., $1000

1996 American Arachnological Society: Turnover in an Arthropod Assemblage as a Potential Indicator of Community Disturbance. $500

1996 Ralph M. Sargent Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Highlands Biological Foundation, Inc., $600

1996 Grant-In-Aid from the Highlands Biological Station, $400

1996 Graduate Researchers in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of Tennessee $200

1996 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, $500

Honors:

1992 Raymond J. Myers Prize in Biology, Colgate University

1989-1992 Colgate Dana Scholar (awarded for academic excellence and leadership), Colgate University

1988-1992 Dean's Award for Academic Excellence, Colgate University

1991 Phi Beta Kappa, National Honors Society

1989 Beta Beta Beta, Biological Honors Society

Publications:

Do, M.T., J.M. Harp and K.C. Norris. (Maiden name) 1999. A test of a pattern recognition system for identification of spiders. Bulletin of Entomological Research 89, 217-224.

Norris, K.C. (Maiden name) 1999. Quantifying change through time in spider assemblages: sampling methods, indices, and sources of error. Journal of Insect Conservation 3(4), 311-327.

Norris, K.C. (Maiden name) 2000. Guidelines for the use of hyperdiverse taxa in biological monitoring: Change through time in Southern Appalachian spider assemblages. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Tennessee.

Russell, K.N., H. Ikerd, and S. Droege. 2005. The potential conservation value of unmowed powerline strips for native bees. Biological Conservation 124: 133-148.

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do, J.C. Huff and N.I. Platnick. 2007. Introducing SPIDA-web: wavelets, neural networks and Internet accessibility in an image-based automated identification system. In N. MacLeod (ed), Automated Object Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches, and Applications. Springer Verlag.

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. (in prep). Creating a functional automated identification system: obstacles, limitations and triumphs.

Kornbluth, S., A. Hawrysz and K. N. Russell (in prep). Automated identification of native bee species from eastern North America: wing venation as a species discriminating feature.

Schramm, J., A. Chain Guada, D. Dalton, J. Loda, S. Vilchez and K. N. Russell. (in prep). Linear habitats: bridging natural and managed landscapes in the provision of on- and off-farm ecosystem services.

Recent Published Abstracts:

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2005. Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species. Taxonomic Database Working Group Annual Meeting, Abstracts (http://www.tdwg.org/2005meet/paperabstracts/TDWG2005_Abstract_64.htm).

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2004. Introducing SPIDA-web: A fully automated, digital image-based identification system for biological species. Special Symposium-DNA-Taxonomy: Good-Bye Microscope? Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts (http://esa.confex.com/esa/2004/techprogram/paper_13574.htm).

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2003. Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species. American Arachnological Society Annual Meeting, Abstracts (http://www.americanarachnology.org/MeetingAbstracts/AAS_03_abstracts.html).

Russell, K.N., and S. Droege. 2003. The potential conservation value of unmowed powerline strips for native bees. Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, Abstracts (http://www.conbio.org/SCB/Activities/Meetings/2003/website/contributed_orals.htm#C35)

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2004. Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species. The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's Ninth Annual Spring Symposium-Expanding the Ark: The Emerging Science and Practice of Invertebrate Conservation, Abstracts (http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/symposia/archives/expandingthearc/posters.html).

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2004. Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species. Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, Abstracts (http://www.conbio.org/SCB/Activities/Meetings/2004/talks.cfm).

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2004. SPIDA-web for spiders: An automated identification system for the species in the Australasian ground spider family Trochanteriidae. 16th International Congress of Arachnology, Abstracts (http://users.ugent.be/~jpmaelfa/Abstracts%20Lezingen%20(all).pdf).

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2004. Introducing SPIDA-web: A fully automated, digital image-based identification system for biological species. Special Symposium-DNA-Taxonomy: Good-Bye Microscope? Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts (http://esa.confex.com/esa/2004/techprogram/paper_13574.htm).

Russell, K.N., M.T. Do and N.I. Platnick. 2005. Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species. Taxonomic Database Working Group Annual Meeting, Abstracts (http://www.tdwg.org/2005meet/paperabstracts/TDWG2005_Abstract_64.htm).

Featured Articles:

Ness, Erik. January to March, 2005. “SPIDA-web, SPIDA-web: Artificial neural networks fill in for taxonomists”. Conservation in Practice (Innovations) 6(1): pg. 35-36.

Vergano, Dan. August 18, 2005. “Conservationists are all abuzz about honeybee havens.” USA Today, pg. 7D.

Graham-Rowe, Duncan. August 26, 2005. “Power lines may provide a haven for bees.” NewScientist.com.

Gourdarzi, Sara. September 15, 2005. “Left unmowed, power-line land might suit bees.” Christian Science Monitor, pg. 14.

Holden, Constance (editor of Random Samples). September 23, 2005 “Where the Bees Are.” Science 309(5743), pg. 1986

Lundmark, Cathy. October 2005. “What’s the Buzz? Potential habitat for bees.” Bioscience 55(10).

Professional Activities:

2002-2003 Paid Consultancy for Raintree Parasites and Partners series, Brown Reference Group, London.

2000-2001 Paid Consultancy for Marshall Cavendish Insects and Spiders reference set, Brown Partworks Limited, London.

1999 Commissioned identification of a collection of spiders from the AEDC RTE Invertebrate Survey.

Member of Society for Conservation Biology, Ecological Society of America, American Arachnological Society

Manuscript review for the Journal of Arachnology, the Journal of Insect Conservation and Biological Conservation

Invited Presentations:

November 2007. “Bees, Spiders and SPIDA-web: Arthropods and Artificial Intelligence in Conservation Planning, Departmental Seminar, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.

August 2005. ““Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species.” Symposium: Algorithmic Approaches to the Identification Problem in Systematics, The Natural History Museum, London.

April 2005. “Spiders, bees and SPIDA: Arthropods and Artificial Intelligence in Conservation Planning”, Departmental Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

November 2004. "Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species" as part of the DNA-taxonomy: Good-Bye Microscope? symposium at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

October 2001. "Saving the other 99%: Arthropods and Artificial Intelligence in Conservation Planning", Departmental Seminar, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH.

June 2000. "Importance, obstacles and benefits of incorporating arthropods in conservation planning", Departmental Seminar, Barnard College, New York, NY.

April 1999. "Change through time and space in Southern Appalachian spider communities: guidelines for the use of hyperdiverse taxa in biological monitoring", Departmental Seminar, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.

July 1998. "Quantifying extinction and colonization in spider communities: turnover, predictability, and rarefaction" as part of the Issues in Spider Conservation symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Sydney, Australia.

Field Experience:

2008 Collection of bees from the Hackensack Meadowlands, NJ (funded by the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute) using modified pan traps and netting.

2001 Collection of bees and other arthropods from the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, using modified pan traps and netting.

1995-1997 Collection of spiders from Nantahala National Forest, NC using pitfall traps, litter samples processed in Tullgren funnels, sweep netting, vegetation beating, and visual hand collection.

1995-1997 Collection of spiders from Knox County, TN using pitfall traps.

1996 Collection of spiders from lowland bogs of Scotland using pitfall traps.

1995 Collection of spiders from Everglades National Park, FLA using sweep nets and a suction device.

1994 Studies of populations of the desert spider, Agelenopsis aperta in Southeastern Arizona (at the Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History).

1988 Observation and documentation of birds feeding at an experimental feeding station in Hamilton, NY.

1987 Collection and observation of dragonflies used in thermoregulation studies from sites in Hamilton, NY.

Lab Experience:

2002-present Specimen imaging using a digital camera (Q-Imaging micropublisher) and Leica MZ12.5 microscope.

2000-2001 Identification of a collection of bees from Prince Georges Co. and Anne Arundel Co., MD (2921 individuals, 24 genera, ~90 species).

1998-1999 Identification of a collection of spiders from Macon Co., NC (5877 individuals, 125 species).

1999 Commissioned identification of a collection of spiders from the AEDC RTE Invertebrate Survey, central Tennessee (160 individuals, 54 species).

1997 Identification of a collection of spiders from Knox Co., TN (1264 individuals, 75 species).

1993-1994 Identification of a small collection of spiders from East Tennessee (50 species).

Teaching Experience:

Biodiversity, Conservation, and Ecosystem Services in Managed Landscapes (an NCEAS DGS seminar) (1 semester) Lecturer and working group leader, Columbia University.
Introduction to Populations (1 semester) Lecturer and laboratory instructor, College of Wooster.
Population and Community Ecology (1 semester) Lecturer and laboratory instructor, College of Wooster.
Ethology (1 semester) Lecturer and laboratory instructor, College of Wooster
Animal Behavior (3 semesters) Lecturer, College of Wooster, Princeton University, Rutgers University

The following courses were taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Honors Zoology (3 semesters) Laboratory director and instructor (bi-weekly labs)
Arachnology (1 semester) Laboratory/field director
Cell Biology (2 semesters). Discussion leader
General Ecology (2 semesters) Laboratory instructor
General Biology (1 semester) Laboratory instructor
Mankind in the Biotic World (1 semester) Laboratory instructor
Biodiversity (1 semester) Laboratory instructor

Advising Experience:

PhD Students:

Sarah Kornbluth, Rutgers University (Co-advisor)
Denise Hewitt, Rutgers University (Co-advisor)

Undergraduate Independent Study:

Shahira Sanabria, Rutgers University (REU) “SPIDA-web module development: Incorporation of multiple images and automated image processing techniques”

Alexa Hawrysz, Columbia University “Automated species identification of bees”

Libby Williams "The effects of salt marsh haying on benthic algal biomass"

Corey Fitch "Use of a brain parasite as a tool for identifying the point of origin of wild caught salmon"

Julie Raffay "Effects of hunger level and sex upon the foraging behaviors of the wolf spider, Pardosa milvina (Hentz)"

Laura Kriska "The role of herbivory on coral growth in blue holes and patch reefs on Andros Island, Bahamas"

Chelsea O. B. Hunt "Effects of isolation and pesticides on the pollinator community and seed set of wild mustard, Sinapis arvensis"

Jacqueline Doyle "Effects of elevation, temperature and humidity on the abundance and diversity of salamanders in the Southern Appalachians"

Eric Pilko "A study of the phylogenetic systematics of the Charadriiformes (Class: Aves)"

Katie McCreary "Taxa and density of Zooxanthellae: patterns when comparing temperature, depth and iridescence"