Curators & Staff

• Secretary
  • Fritz Paper
• Collection Manager
  • Greg Schneider
• Researchers
  • Moises Kaplan
• Curators
  • Ronald A. Nussbaum
    • Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    • Fields of Study: Systematics, evolution, and ecology of amphibians & reptiles
• Emeritus Curators
  • Arnold G. Kluge
    • Fields of Study:
    • 1. The theory and practice of phylogenetic inference, especially the relationship between evidence and discovery, a priori and a posteriori weighting, taxonomic congruence and total evidence (both the sampling of terminal taxa and phylogenetically informative characters), and the nature of accuracy and confidence in hypothesis choice.
    • 2. The importance of ontogeny as a constraining force in evolution and as a source of macroevolutionary phenomena.
    • 3. Vicariance biogeography, particularly the development of parsimony methods.
    • 4. The higher classification of amniotes, with emphasis on squamates.