Taxonomic experts listed by group of expertise

Research deals with use of both surrogate and resident organisms to assess water and sediment quality, optimizing measurement endpoints, indices, and assessment methods (lab and in situ exposures).

I am broad generalist interested in conservation biology of reserves and protected areas. I am interested in aquatic indicators of biological integrity. Also, theoretical aspects of dam removal.

I have been identifying benthic macroinvertebrates (arthropods, molluscs, annelids) for over 25 years. Taxonomic expertise concentrated in Great Lakes basin of North America, East Africa, British Columbia, Southeast Asia and New Zealand. Particularly interested in Baetid mayflies.

I specialize in benthic macroinvertebrate biodivesity, mainly in North Carlina, but also in Israel, Canada and Brazil.

aquatic Coleoptera, especially Hydradephaga

aquatic ID experience goes back to 1993; particular expertise throughout Rocky Mountains, and Pacific Coast from Alaska to Panama; interest in southeast U.S. and New England; also considerable expertise (since 1990)in many terrestrial groups

southeast and central

I have approx. 20 years of experience with taxonomy of general stream invertebrates in eastern North America, but my specialty is Trichoptera, both larvae and adults.

jack of all invertebrate groups

I have been certified as a taxonomist throgh the NABS certification program as of Sept. 2006, in the area of Eastern Taxa.

primarily aquatic life stages

Eastern and Western EPT, General Invertebrates (excluding Chironomidae and Oligochaeta).

I am interested in invertebrate identification and how they are affected my pollutants

I deal with both lake and stream invertebrates occuring throughout Canada and the Northern United States.

ES&C is a certified HUBZone small business providing taxonomic expertise and analytical support to public and private sector clients nationwide.

freshwater mussels

Not an expert at all, but interested in taxa found in northern temperate deciduous and boreal streams of N America

Presently working on the stream ecology of Indian River, Sitka, Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska.

My taxonomic expertise includes general aquatic insect taxonomy of all aquatic orders.

I can identify aquatic invertebrates, including larval and adult chironomids.

I study global change impacts on multiple trophic levels including the microorganisms, algae, and macroinvertebrates.

Food webs

Chironomidae; also Odonata, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera

Aquatic Insects Species ID (immatures), including Chironomidae (larvae only)

Four years doing taxonomic ID in RI.

general knowledge of stream invertebrates in Southeastern Pennsylvania Piedmont

Freshwater macroinvertebrates from streams, lakes, vernal pools. Species IDs when good keys exist.

NABS TCE Level 2 Group 2 and 3 East (EPT and Chironomidae) certified taxonomist.

familiar with many aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa from wadable, fast-flowing streams in Massachusetts

I am capable of identifying nearly every stream insect to genus using Merritt and Cummings 3rd Edition.

I study the diel behaviors of stream insects, especially in regards to light cues and interactions with predators.

Moderate taxonomic expertise of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera, Diptera, Megaloptera, and Coleoptera genera.

Primary expertise: Aquatic Insect Taxonomy With a general concentration on the Northeastern U.S.

in particular Ephemeroptera ( Hexagenia)

Fauna of KY, esp. Culicidae

Aquatic insects, oligochaeta, freshwater mussels

Southern Appalachian headwater streams

Particular experience with larval species ID of EPTO taxa in TN & Cumberland River systems. Dipteran taxonomic skills limited mostly to family level. Also familiar with mussel taxonomy in TN/OH basin.

Collect and identify aquatic macroinvertebrates in a Metro Atlanta county.

For the past 15 years I have been involved in biomonitoring in north-central Tennessee and the surrounding region.

Most experience with Chironomidae taxonomy.

Expertise with most aquatic macroinvertbrate groups, especially Trichoptera

Florida SCI and Biorecon, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana collection and Identification

Effects nonpoint source pollution as from agriculture and energy development on stream macroinvertebrate communities; bioassessment.

I work with Trichoptera, crayfishes and freshwater mussels

I would by no means call myself and expert, but I have had almost three years of experience with Chironomidae- and have a continuing interest in this group.

I have worked with macroinvertebrates in the Southeast for over 20 years. I have identified all freshwater groups, and prepared and authored many reports, including peer-reviewed scientific articles.

Indiana

Identification of macroinvertebrates from the rivers and streams of North Dakota

Only general expertise. Particular interest in aquatic weevils (Curculionidae)

Texas stream invertebrates

Stream ecology w/concentration on urban streams and hydrological interactions.

research biologist - wastewater treatment plant

Proficient in identifying EPT specimens to genus.

Volunteer monitoring

In contexts of trophic function, lotic ecology, and anthropogenic disturbance and related reclamation of threatened salmonid fisheries. Particular interest in anadromous fisheries. Contract taxonomist for your project's benthic samples from Rocky Mountain, Great Basin, and Pacific Coast states. (Click name for details.)

Invertebrate taxonomist for aquatic ecology consulting firm. Interests include population dynamics in response to anthropogenticlly altered habitat

This refers to Newfoundland and Labrador

BMI Taxonomy Lab, Canadian Rivers Institute. Certified Taxonomist - Kristie Heard (kheard@unb.ca) offering a variety of collection, sorting, and analytical services (www.unb.ca/cri)

community ecology

Education & Conservation

I currently focus my taxonomic efforts on Trichoptera, crayfish, and molluscs. Have previous Carabidae (Coleoptera) taxonomic specialization.

Community ecology; food web experiments; riparian management; detritivores; headwater streams; organic matter dynamics; forestry; biomonitoring; stream restoration http://faculty.forestry.ubc.ca/richardson/

EFFECTS OF RIPARIAN VEGETATION ON BENTHIC STREAM COMMUNITIES

Alaskan macroinvertebrates. Both arctic and subarctic.

Simuliidae (Diptera)

mainly Mollusca and aquatic insect larvae

Biomonitoring of ecological conditions of High altitude Andean Streams.

Microdistribution of stream invertebrates under different hydrological conditions

Brazil

Alpine Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera

Biomonitoring of ecological status of mediterranean rivers in Catalonia, Spain.

particularly Ephemeroptera, Chironomidae, Tipulidae, Heteroptera

Also in general organisms used for running water quality evaluation

caddisfly

Particularly of Ephemeroptera

Oligochaeta, macroinvertebrates,ecology

Most of tne invertebrate fauna in freshwater systems in Nigeria have not been described. alot need to be done in this direction. We are just doing the best we can with very limited resources.

Southern African macroinvertebrates, most groups to genus level, several to species level.

I have authored the principal guide used to identify aquatic insects in New Zealand. I also have expertise in identifying freshwater Mollusca of NZ and to an extent the lotic Crustacea.

Primary expertise in Lake Erie drainage

ES&C is a certified HUBZone small business providing taxonomic expertise and analytical support to public and private sector clients nationwide.

Benthic macroinvertebrates, especially Chironomidae.

Particularly ode nymphs, culicid & chaoborid larvae

Florida

This refers to Newfoundland and Labrador

I am not an expert in taxonomy of aquatic invertebrates, but as a tropical benthologist, I have acquired some skills to identify a significant diversity of benthic invertebrates (mostly aquatic insects).

Epilithic meiofauna communities with focus on nematodes

Family Leptohyphidae, larvae or adults.

Ephemerellidae

Taxonomic expertise with both larvae and adults. Area of special interest New England and Atlantic Canada. Taxonomic assistance provided free to students and colleagues without major grant support. Specific requirements for accepting specimens for taxonomic analysis available upon request.

Systematics

Can identify nymphs and adults in the Midwest region.

And I like mayflies, particularly the Siphlonuroidea and Leptophleboidea. But I am no expert.

Systematics

Ephemeroptera systematics; burrowing mayflies; Northeast Asia; tropical Southeast Asia; general aquatic insects taxonomy and ecology; stream ecology; conservation biology

I work especially with Capniidae.

Research includes stonefly, taxonomy, life history, distribution. Currently using museum specimen data to track temporal and spatial changes in stonefly assemblage of Illinois and Midwest. Use mayfly, stonefly, caddisfly (EPT) assemblage as indicator of stream condition at randomly chosen sites in Illinois. Studying the distribution of EPT species in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Research includes biogeography, ecology, life history, taxonomy, community structure, and pollution tolerances of Plecoptera as related to applied studies such as bioassessments, evaluation of natural resource damages, food habit studies, and effects of anthropogenic disturbances

Updating PA stonefly species distribution list, studying pollution tolerance & habitat preferences.

Brazilian Plecoptera

Behavior, systematics

Identification of New World Odonata, both adults and larvae; preparing a book on Anisoptera larvae of North America; preparing keys for South American families and genera; describing new species from Neotropics.

expertise in larval odonate identification

Larval Odonata

Interested in larval ecology; exuviae collection

Emphasis on nymphs.

I have a particular interest on Neotropical Megaloptera, but a general interest on Corydalidae of the World.

Specialize in Geometridae of western hemisphere; aquatic insects of Kentucky; mosquitoes of Jefferson Co., KY

Primary interest: Adults of the Goeridae, Rhyacophilidae, and Limnephilidae.

Hydropsychidae

systematics, biogeography

particular expertise in: North American Rhyacophilidae, New World Calamoceratidae and Odontoceridae

larvae

I have specialized in the Polycentropodidae and have considerable experience in Neotropical Polycentropus

Can identify larvae, pupae, and adults in the Midwest and Southeast region.

Other groups: Simuliidae, Fish

Larvae, pupae or adults

esp. the Americas, West Palaearctic, Africa

Adults of Diamesa

I am available to work on larval and pupal Chironomidae for N. America.

Author of the first largely pictorial guide to the identification of NA chironomid larvae (1968 FWQA, USDI; rev. 1969, FWPCA; USEPA 1973; Ecology Support, Inc. 1998, 5th Printing 2000).

After 19 years, I can discriminate "red midges" from "green midges"

I have had a professional involvement with and strong interest in Chironomidae identification for over twenty years.

I have a developing interest in Chironomidae and Ceratopogoninae.

Chironomid taxonomy, bioassessment, numerical taxonomy, deformities, and adaptive radiation

Stream and lake invertebrates (general) too.

Some experience in south america

crane flies, Tipuloidea: Tipulidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae, Cylindrotomidae

Taxonomy of higher Diptera, particularly acalyptrates; taxonomy of adult and larval Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera).

Culicidae

Current focus on Tipulidae; also competent at ID'ing Blephariceridae and larval Chironomidae

Simuliidae, other lower Diptera, evolution, morphology, head development. Hydrology, hydrodynamics of aquatic insects.

Hydradephaga systematics; larvae, adult; biodiversity

Hydrophilidae adults

Gyrinidae: Dineutus

My expertise is mainly with the water beetle fauna of Florida

Aquatic Coleoptera of UK and Ireland, adultsd

Lumbriculidae in particular; general interest in other microdriles.

Taxonomy, systematics, distribution, and ecology of freshwater, marine, estuarine, and terrestrial Annelida (oligochaetous Clitellata, Hirudinida, Aeolosomatida, Branchiobdellida, and freshwater Polychaeta). Annelids and other fauna associated with springs, seeps, cave streams and pools, and other groundwater sources. As a 30 year member of the NABS Literature Review Committee, I am interested in receiving reprints of your papers that discuss any and all aspects of aquatic annelids, regardless of taxonomic level of identification, and all papers that include descriptions and/or revisions of annelid taxa (exclusive of the marine and estuarine Polychaeta); review of your published papers will assure accurate inclusion in bibliographic compilations.

Naididae and Tubificidae of Lake Erie

Morphological identification and genetic classification of tubificidae.

also North America and other regions of the world

Primarily mussels, secondarily aquatic gastropods; particularly imperiled species

Coordinating the Freshwater Gastropods of North America Project. See: http://www.cofc.edu/~dillonr/fwgnahome.htm

Systematics and ecology of primarily freshwater mollusks, both Bivalvia and Gastropoda, of North America with secondary interest in terrestrial gastropods, molluscan taxa from other continents, and freshwater Crustacea

Ecology, Systematics and Life History of Freshwater Molluscs: Bivalvia and Gastropoda

I'm most familiar with freshwater mussels of the family Unionidae. Most of my experience is in the upper Mississippi and Ohio River drainages, with addtional experience in the Mobil River drainage of Alabama and some northern Atlantic Slope drainages.

sphaeriid clams

Primarily Unionidae

Unionid Mussels

Proficient with mussels of upper Tennessee Basin, some knowledge of Atlantic slope mussels.

Specialization in Mobile and Gulf Coastal (ACF, Escambia, Yellow) Unionidae.

Unionidae only

Unionids (Souhteastern Michigan & North Carolina)

freshwater mussels, terrestrial and aquatic snails

Freshwater mussels in Florida and Georgia.

Over 12 years experience with TN River basin and Atlantic slope freshwater mussels in Virginia and North Carolina. Also proficient with freshwater gastropods in same area.

Studied unionoid mollusks of the Upper Mississippi River System since 1969. Identification of juvenile and other unionids from Central USA Faunal surveys in large and small rivers.

Unionidae

over 25 years experience with native mussels in the Tennessee River basin

Ontario unionid spp.

Panamic and Caribbean Provinces. Particular interest on gastropod families Neritidae and Littorinidae

Aquatic Gastropoda

littoral Cladocera taxonomy, especially Chydoridae Littoral microcrustacea; especially chydorid Cladocera

Harpacticoida

Cambaridae

I also work with marine crustaceans

Crayfish; particularly imperiled species

Anostraca (Fairy shrimps)

Gammarus lacustris

Since meiofauna organisms in periphyton communities in lakes have greatly been neglected, I focus on these communities with main emphasis on nematodes.

I have worked with freshwater diatoms for nearly 30 years. I wrote an identification manual for the Nashville District of the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1980's. I have a digital library of over 2,600 micrographs including 812 scanning electron micrographs of diatoms from the central Ohio River Basin. I have a permanent (HYRAX) herbarium of over 700 slides including isotype material for 16 taxa- Jarrett, G. L. and J. M. King. 1989. The Diatom Flora (Bacillariophyceae) of Lake Barkley. Final Report to The Army Corps Of Engineers. 205 P. (Includes A Key, Annotation On 269 Taxa and Over 300 Light and Scanning Electron Micrographs).

diatoms and freshwater algae of lakes, streams, wetlands

freshwater and brackishwater diatoms

I am particularly familiar with diatom taxonomy and ecology.

My lab's phycological expertise involves mainly algae in relative extreme environments (e.g., alpine, acidified boreal, polar) with a particular emphasis on periphytic species.

Eunotia :)

diatom and algal taxonomic identification

Freshwater algae/periphyton

I can identify a few algae and appreciate and have some understanding of their modes of life, but I am not a taxonomic specialist, for any group.

I am interested in algae, but am not an expert by any means!!!!!!

Expertise in the Great Lakes region

Diatom taxonomy.

Algae and Bryophytes

Cyanobacteria Algal communities of running waters

diatoms, cyanophytes, microcystins

Benthic algae Streams Mediterranean

Diatom communities

I am interested in river ecology, especially in algae ecology and ecosystem management of running waters.

pelagic and benthic ciliates; ciliates of hyporheic zones

Expertise focused on determining physiological groups of microoganisms in aquatic ecosystems.

aquatic hyphomycetes

aquatic hyphomycetes in temperate regions

aquatic hyphomycetes

Aqutic Fungal Ecology and Interaction with Macroinvertebrates

biomass estimates

Community interactions
Essential habitat identification
otolith research

ANALYTICAL
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emmision Spectroscopy (ICP-OES)
Ion Chromatography
Total Carbon
Isotope Mass Spectrometer

DATA COLLECTION/PREPARATION
Aqueous and sediment/rock collection using trace metal clean techniques
Hydrologic measurements (discharge etc.)
Biological sample collection (electroshocking etc.)
Clean Laboratory sample preparation for ICP-MS (column chromatography etc.)

CURRENT FIELD AREAS
Spring River Arkansas
Moldova
New zealand

TEACHING
2001 - present Environmental Geology
2001 - present General chemistry
1997 - 2000 General Biology

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
American Limnology and Oceanography
Mid-South Affiliate Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
North American Benthological Society

Stream fishes, particularly imperiled species

Stream Ecology, Bioassessment, Aquatic Resources Management

My research focuses on understanding how fish habitat relates to the productive capacity of aquatic ecosystems, and in a broader context, ecosystem health. I work in stream ecology and study the effects of human alterations such as water diversions and mining. In my work, I emphasize an understanding of physical and ecological river processes, the habitat template, and the need to approach restoration projects with scientific rigor so that we may learn from our successes and failures.

Stream Fish