MASAHIRO ÔHARA
ohara@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp
TITLE:
Associate Curator, Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Faculty of
Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589 Japan
EDUCATION:
B.S. entomology, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, 1985.
M.S. entomology, Institute of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture,
Hokkaido University, 1987.
Ph.D. entomology, Institute of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture,
Hokkaido University, 1991.
POSITIONS:
Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1990-1991.
Curator of Entomology, Otaru Museum, Ironal 2-1-20, Otaru, Hokkaido
047, Japan, 1991-1997.
Associate Curator, Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Faculty of
Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589 Japan, 1997-present.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Botanical Society of Japan, Ecological Society of Japan, Japanese
Society of Phycology.
FIELD EXPERIENCE:
Many informal collecting trips throughout Hokkaido plus one formal
field seasons as a participant in the "Natural History Research Project in
Eastern Hokkaido," sponsored by the National Science Museum, Tokyo,
May-June 1992.
PUBLICATIONS: Since 1986, 22 scientific publications on the taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of insects, with emphasis on coleopterans of the family Histeridae.
Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:
- ÔHARA, M., K. Shinichi, and S. Kanda. 1989. Insecta. pp.
147-174, In: Natural History of the Kariba-Motta National Park.
Sapporo.
- ÔHARA, M. 1989. On the species of the genus Margarinotus
of Japan (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Inst. Matsum., n.s., 41: 1-50.
- ÔHARA, M. 1992. A revision of the genus Merohister from
Japan (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Parts 1 and 2. Japan. Jour.
Ent., 60(2); 377-389, 60(3): 495-501.
- ÔHARA, M. 1992. The insect fauna of the Nagahashi Naebo area,
Otaru, central Hokkaido, Japan. Bull. Otaru Mus., 6: 1-21.
- ÔHARA, M., and T. Yabuki. 1992. Insect faunal survey of Mt. Yotei,
Hokkaido, northern Japan. Coleoptera. Bull. Otaru Mus., 6: 55-62.
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