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My dissertation research is on the systematics of the bark beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) genus Xylosandrus. This work is part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnership for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET) funded project "Monographic research of tropical bark beetles (Scolytinae: Xyleborini): Preservation and modernization of taxonomic expertise." For my research I will be revising Xylosandrus - establishing species boundaries and distributions, as well as producing evolutionary phylogenies based on morphological and molecular data. In addition to this, I am collaborating with Terry L. Erwin of the Smithsonian Institute on bark beetle diversity, as part of his larger survey of arthropod diversity in the Ecuadorian rain forest canopy.
More on my research and other interests can be found on my website beetlelady.com.