Humboldt State University

Department of Biological Sciences

Vertebrate Museum

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Mammalogy

Tim E. Lawlor
Tim Lawlor

Emeritus Professor and Curator

Evolution, ecology, and biogeography of mammals, with an emphasis on relationships and distributions of insular populations.

Email: tel1@humboldt

P. Dawn Goley
Dawn Goley

Associate 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

Associate Dean, HSU College of Natural Resources and Sciences

Chromosomal evolution in mammals, marine mammal ecology and evolution

Email: ss7006@humboldt.edu

Christopher M. Callahan

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

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John Reiss

Associate Professor of Zoology

Herpetology and Evolutionary and Developmental Morphology

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W. Bryan Jennings

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics

Molecular phylogenetics, population genetics, and biogeography, especially of birds and lizards

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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 Ph.D. student in Liz Hadly’s lab at Stanford University

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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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