waxwingboheme
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| Industry | Student |
|---|---|
| Location | Santa Cruz, California, United States |
| Introduction | I spend most of my time doing macrofungal taxonomy and ecology. That said, I haven't yet met a group of organisms that I don't enjoy finding/watching/identifying/learning about. Biodiversity in and of itself is interesting. |
| Interests | Fungi, birds, insects, plants, amphibians, mammals, fish, reptiles, lichens, mosses, tardigrades, bacteria, viruses, cnidarians, ctenophores, annelids, sipunculids, molluscs, dinoflagellates, diatoms, coccolithophores |
| Favorite Books | A Neotropical Companion (John Kricher), Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus (Haff), Mushrooms Demystified (Arora), The Diversity of Fishes (Helfman et al.), Intertidal Invertebrates of California (Morris, Abbot, and Haderlie), The Jepson Manual, National Geographic Field Guide to North American Birds, A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (Stiles and Skutch), Birds of Mexico and N. Central America (Howell and Webb), Alwyn Gentry's field guides, almost all of Stephen Jay Gould's work, Guide to Insects of North America (Kauffman) |