Staff

Douglas S. Jones

Douglas S. Jones
Director of the Florida Museum of Natural History and Curator
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Research interests include exploring shell growth records of modern and fossil mollusks. These range from coquina clams such as Donax variabilis that live for several months, to bivalves like Arctica islandica that can live for centuries. From growth increment variability and stable isotope profiles in shells of these organisms, it is possible to reconstruct detailed records of life history and environmental change.


Kowalewski

Michal Kowalewski
Jon L. and Beverly A. Thompson Chair of Invertebrate Paleontology
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Roger Portell

Roger W. Portell
Collection Director
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Oversight of all aspects (curation, cataloging, computerization, personnel, budgets, fund raising, outreach, etc.) of one of the largest and most active invertebrate paleontology collections in North America.  Currently serving as Florida Paleontological Society Editor of the specimen identification series Florida Fossil Invertebrates.

Research interests include systematics, paleoecology, biogeography, and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic invertebrates of the southeastern USA, Caribbean, and South America with an emphasis on arthropods, echinoderms, and mollusks.


Sean Roberts

Sean Roberts
Museum Operations Specialist
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Collection, preparation, cataloging, GIS databasing, and photography of worldwide collection of fossil invertebrates with focus on the SE USA and Caribbean. Oversee data entry personnel. Member of the National Speleological Society, the Florida Speleological Society (Board Member since 2001, currently serving as President), and the Florida Geological Survey Springs and Swallett Project (2005).

Research interests include mapping of Florida caves (both underwater and dry) and photographic documentation and voucher collecting of fossil invertebrates found therein.


Alex Kittle

Alex Kittle
Curatorial Assistant
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Collection, preparation, and identification of fossil invertebrates from the SE USA and Caribbean. Newsletter Editor and Membership Chair for the Florida Paleontological Society.

Research interests include the evolution and systematics of Cenozoic marine mollusks from the western Atlantic.


George Hecht

George D. Hecht
Curatorial Assistant
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Collection, preparation, identification, and curation of Tertiary microfossils (Ostracoda, Foraminiferida) from the SE USA and Caribbean. Identification and Curation of the Paleozoic portion of the teaching Collection. Member of the Florida Paleontological Society.

Research interests include taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Florida brackish and marine Ostracoda.


Joan Herrera

Joan C. Herrera
Research Associate
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Research Interests include larval ecology and life history evolution of marine invertebrates and the evolutionary history of echinoids.






Solomiya Virstyuk

Solomiya Virstyuk
Senior Data Entry Specialist
Computerization of identified specimens including production of specimen labels and numbering of cataloged lots. Currently a sophomore majoring in Biology.