Division of Vertebrate Natural History Staff & Students


Technical Staff | Curatorial Staff | Affiliated Staff | Graduate Students

Technical Staff

Laura Abraczinskas , Collections Manager
abraczi1@msu.edu

Paula Hildebrandt , Specimen Preparator
hildeb16@msu.edu
Robin Bolig , Mammal Data Quality Technician
bolig@msu.edu
 

Curatorial Staff

Dr. Michael Gottfried , Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Herpetology, and Ichthyology, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
gottfrie@msu.edu
Website - http://museum.msu.edu/ResearchandCollections/DVNH/gottfried/

 

Dr. Barbara Lundrigan , Curator of Mammalogy & Ornithology, Associate Professor of Zoology
lundriga@msu.edu
Website - http://www.msu.edu/user/lundriga/

 

Dr. Pamela Rasmussen , Assistant Curator of Mammalogy & Ornithology, Assistant Professor of Zoology
rasmus39@msu.edu
Website - http://museum.msu.edu/ResearchandCollections/Profiles/?show_profile=11

 

Affiliated Staff

James Harding , Wildlife Outreach Specialist, Instructor in Zoology
hardingj@msu.edu
Website - http://critterguy.museum.msu.edu/

 
Graduate Students
  Laura Das , Department of Zoology
daslauri@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Lundrigan
Proximate explanations for the effects of climate change on interspecific competition in Great Lakes' Peromyscus: Variation in life history strategy and temperament



  Lisa Korte , Department of Zoology
molloyli@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Lundrigan
Ecology and behavior of the African forest buffalo, Syncerus caffer nanus

 

 

Sarah Kraig , Department of Geological Sciences
kraigsar@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Gottfried

Comparative internal morphology of vertebral centra in fossil and extant lamnid sharks

 

 

Teresa McElhinny , Department of Zoology
mcelhinn@msu.edu
Website - http://www.msu.edu/%7Emcelhinn/
Graduate Student/Lundrigan
Cranial morphology and phylogeography of the spotted hyena,
Crocuta crocuta

 

 

Rosa Moscarella , Department of Zoology
moscarel@msu.edu
Website - http://www.msu.edu/~moscarel/
Graduate Student/Lundrigan
Genetic consequences of climate change for populations of white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus, in the Great Lakes region

 

 

Sifa Ngasala , Department of Geological Sciences
ngasalas@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Gottfried

Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of actinopterygian fishes from the Karoo Basin of southern Africa

 

 

Summer Ostrowski , Department of Geological Sciences
ostrow42@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Gottfried

Systematic and biogeographic implications of Late Cretaceous teleost fishes from Madagascar

 

 

Megan Seitz , Department of Geological Sciences
seitzmeg@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Gottfried

Morphometric analysis of oreodont cranial morphology

 


© Copyright 2004. All Rights Reserved.