VertNet committee

Hank Bart
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Director and Curator of Fishes
Tulane University Museum of Natural History
Email: hank@museum.tulane.edu

John Bates
Chairman and Associate Curator – Birds
Department of Zoology
Field Museum of Natural History
Email: jbates@fieldmuseum.org

Gladys Cotter
Chief Biologist for Information
BRD
U.S. Geological Survey Office
of Biological Informatics
Email: gladys_cotter@usgs.gov

Rob Guralnick
Associate Professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
University of Colorado
Email: robert.guralnick@colorado.edu

James Hanken
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology
Curator – Herpetology
Director
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Email: hanken@oeb.harvard.edu

Craig Moritz
Professor and Director
University of California, Berkeley
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Email: gekkojessie@gmail.com

A. Town Peterson
University Distinguished Professor of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum and
Biodiversity Research Center
Email: town@ku.edu

Nancy Simmons
Chair, Division of Vertebrate Zoology
Curator-in-charge, Department of Mammalogy
American Museum of Natural History
Email: simmons@amnh.org

Linda Trueb
Senior Curator – Herpetology
Assistant Director - Science and Collections
Professor and Associate Chair of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum and
Biodiversity Research Center
Email: trueb@ku.edu

John Wieczorek
Information Architect
MaNIS, ORNIS, BioGeomancer, ReBioMa
University of California, Berkeley
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Email: tuco@berkeley.edu