TIMOTHY ALLEN PEARCETITLE: Curator of Mollusks, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington, Delaware. EDUCATION: B.S., Marine Biology, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1979.
POSITIONS: Research Technician, Department of Biology, Evergreen State College, 1977-1978. Biological Technician, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Olympia, Washington, 1979-1982 Senior Museum Preparator, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-1987. Postdoctoral Associate, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Molluscan Biodiversity Institute, Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1995-1996. Curator of Mollusks, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington, Delaware, 1996-present. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Western Society of Malacologists, 1980-present; American Malacological Union, 1981-present; California Malacozoological Society, 1982-present; Western Society of Naturalists, 1984-present; Ecological Society of America, 1984-present; Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1985-present; Unitas Malacologica, 1986-present. International Society for Medical and Applied Malacology, 1990-present. FIELD EXPERIENCE: Extensive research and field work in over 10 countries in North and Central America, Africa, and Asia: numerous field trips annually in Washington, California, and Michigan, 1976-present; Montana, fossil mollusca, July 1983, July 1984; San Nicolas Island, California, fossil land snails, 1983-1987; Mexico, December 1988--January 1989, December 1989--January 1990; Kenya, December 1990--January 1991; Bali, Indonesia, May 1991; Costa Rica, August 1992; Tanzania, February-March 1995; Madagascar, January-December 1995; central and northern Kuril Islands, July-September 1996, 1997, 1998. PUBLICATIONS: Since 1984, 17 scientific publications on the ecology, evolution, biogeography, and systematics of terrestrial mollusks. Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:
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