Mammalogy

Thor Holmes

Collections Manager

Pictured with a former friend

Email: Thorvald.Holmes@humboldt.edu

P. Dawn Goley

Professor of Zoology and Director of the HSU Marine Mammals Education and Research Program

Behavioral ecology of marine mammals

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Joe M. Szewczak

Associate Professor of Zoology

Physiological ecology and echolocation of bats

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Karen Z. Reiss

Life Sciences Professor at College of the Redwoods; Adjunct Professor of Zoology at HSU

Systematics and biogeography of chipmunks; mammalian morphological evolution

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Steven A. Smith

Dean, HSU College of Natural Resources and Sciences

Chromosomal evolution in mammals, marine mammal ecology and evolution

Email: ss7006@humboldt.edu

Christopher M. Callahan

Lecturer and Curatorial Associate

Biogeography and systematics of whales and their ectoparasites

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Herpetology / Ornithology

Sharyn Marks

Professor of Zoology

Herpetology, Conservation Biology, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Visit Sharyn’s web site: http://users.humboldt.edu/salamander

John Reiss

Professor of Zoology and Department Chair of Biological Sciences

Herpetology and Evolutionary and Developmental Morphology

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Featured Alumni

Jessica Blois

M.A. Biology, Humboldt State University, 2005. Thesis: Conservation Genetics of the Sonoma Tree Vole

Currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Jack Williams.

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Bill Stanley

Collections Manager of Mammals, Field Museum, Chicago, Ill.

B.A., Biology and Zoology, Humboldt State University, 1986. M.A., Biology, Humboldt State University, 1991.

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John J. Ososky

Museum Technician
Osteology Laboratory & Division of Mammals
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC

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