Who We Are...
The staff of the Animal Diversity Web are employed through the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan.
Current team members:
- Dr. Phil Myers, Ph.D.
Director and founder of the Animal Diversity Web. Associate Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Zoology, and Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Dr. Tricia Jones, Ph.D.
- Educational researcher, site design consultant
- Roger Espinosa, M.S.
- Technical Lead: content management, XML templates, search engines, taxonomy database. Sometimes the resident cartoonist.
- Dr. Tanya Dewey, Ph.D
- Editor, author, content expert
- George Hammond, M.S.
- Editor, author, content expert
Former ADW team members:
former Director of Content Development, taxon database wrangler, image guru, crow lady; now a Research Scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland
Becca Anderson, M.T.
Editor, administrative assistant
Alejandra Chiesa, M.S., M.L.A
Digital photographer
Dr. Toni Gorog, Ph.D.
Author, digital photographer
Chris Hamilton, M.S.
Interface designer, programmer, information architect, usability engineer.
Dr. Sharon Jansa, Ph.D.
Author, digital photographer; now on the faculty at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Alan Wolf, Ph.D
Author, digital photographer; now Biology Learning Technology Consultant in the Division of Information Technology and the Center for Biology Education at UW-Madison.
Bruce Worden, B.F.A.
Digital photographer
Alaine Camfield, M.S., Ph.D. student, University of British Columbia
Editor, author, content expert (birds)
Dr. Renee Sherman Mulcrone, M.S., Ph.D
Editor, content expert (invertebrates, freshwater fish)
Nancy Shefferly, M.S.
Editor, author (mammals)