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RICHARD C. BRUSCA

CURRICULUM VITAE

Postal Address: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

2021 N. Kinney Rd.

Tucson, AZ 85743-8918 Phone: 520-***-****

EMAIL: abprjk@r.postjobfree.com

A. EDUCATION

PhD

: 1975, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

MSc: 1970,

California State University (Los Angeles, CA)

BS

: 1967, California State Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo/Pomona, CA)

B. CAREER APPOINTMENTS

CURRENT POSITIONS:

2001

-present. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: 2001-2003, Director,

Research & Conservation;

2003

-2008, Executive Program Director

;

2008-2011, Senior Director,

Research &

Conservation;

2011

-present, Research Associate

1998

-present: Research Scientist, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology &

Evolutionary Biology (also Center for Insect Science and Arizona Research Labs)

1999

-present: Adjunct Professor, Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo

(CIAD

), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

:

2005

-2011: Director, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press.

1998

-2001: Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University, New York

.

1993

-1998: Professor of Biology and Director,

Graduate Program in Marine Biology (and

Associate Director, Grice Marine Biological Laboratory), University/College of Charleston,

SC.

1987

-1993: Joshua L. Baily Chair and Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Department, San Diego

Natural History Museum

(Chief Curator, 1988-1990, Director,

Research & Collections

Division,

1990

-1992

)

1984

-1987: Curator of Crustacea and Head, Invertebrate Zoology Section, Los Angeles

County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles

1980

-1983: Director of Academic Programs,

Catalina Marine Science Center, University of

Southern California.

1975

-1986: Assistant/Associate Professor of Biology (tenured) & Curator of Crustacea,

Dept. Biological Sciences & Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California,

Los Angeles, CA.

C. OTHER PROFESSIONAL

ACTIVITIES

2011-present: Board of Directors, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, Arizona.

2010-present: Advisory Board, Prescott College Kino Bay Center, Research & Conservation

Program.

2009-present: Board of Directors (Executive Committee), COBI (Comunidad y Biodiversidad,

A.C.)

2009: Reviewer, Encyclopedia of Life Rubenstein Fellowship Program

2009. Participant, Arizona Game & Fish Department-Arizona Heritage Program Invertebrate

Diversity Review

2008-present: Co-founder (and Board of Directors), Southern Arizona Buffelgrass

Coordination Center

2008-present: Invited member, Expert Panel, Catalogue of Life project

2008-present. Science Reviewer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch research reports

2008: Development of exhibit essay (Intimate Relationships) honoring pollinators, for the

multimedia exhibition and performing arts event Resonating Bodies-Bumble Domicile. A

2008 production of Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Ontario Canada.

(http://www.interaccess.org/exhibitions/special.php)

2008: Invited participant, Foundations of Success (FOS) adaptive management-based

strategic planning workshop for Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI)

2008: Invited peer consultant, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Bering to Baja

(B2B) Marine Protected Areas Assessment Program

2007-present: University of Arizona, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE),

Translational Environmental Research, Member of External Advisory Committee

2007-present: Appointed member, Advisory Board, Friends of Saguaro National Park

2006-present: Appointed member, Arizona Invasive Species Advisory Council (appointed by

Governor Janet Napolitano)

2006-2008: Appointed member, Board of Directors, Discover Life in America

2006-2008. Advisor, "Strange Days on Planet Earth." Eight-part television PBS series

designed to improve science education and introduce the public to major global change

issues. Produced by Sea Studios Foundation in cooperation with National Geographic

Television and National Science Foundation.

2005: Invited member, Encuesta Nacional Para la Identificacion de Prioridades de

Conservacion de la Biodiversidad en Mexico (National Planning Process for Conservation

Priority Setting in Mexico), CONABIO and Comision Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas,

State of Mexico

2004-present: ASDM Research Coordinator Representative to AZA (American Zoo and Aquarium

Association)

2004: Organizer, The Gulf of California Conference 2004. Tucson, Arizona (concept,

organization, fund-raising)

2004: Juror, Art of the Sea of Cortez. A juried exhibition of the Art Institute, Arizona-

Sonora Desert Museum

2004: Member, Academic Program Review Panel, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Insect

Science, University of Arizona

2003-present: Member, Advisory Board to School of Renewable Natural Resources, University

of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

2003: Juror, Nature Painted. A juried exhibition of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art

Institute

2003: Member, Academic Program Review Panel, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department,

University of Arizona

2002-present: Member, Executive Committee, Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies

Unit (DS-CESU)

2002-2008: Member, Management Board, Sonoran Joint Venture

2002-2003: Invited participant, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Global

International Waters Assessment Project. Development of an integrated assessment of

transboundary environmental problems and societal root causes associated in the Lower

Colorado River, its Delta, and the Upper Gulf of California

2002: Invited participant, Colorado River Delta Specialists Workshop. Developing a GIS-

based map and database for conservation of the region (Sonoran Institute and University of

Arizona)

2002-present: Member, Technical Advisory Board, Kino Bay Nature Center, Sonora, Mexico

(SEMARNAT)

2001-present: Member, Science and Technical Advisory Team, Sonoran Desert Conservation

Plan, Pima County, Arizona

2001-2004: Member, Biological Experts Group, Agua Caliente Aquatic Ecosystem Study, Pima

County, Arizona

2000-2001: Director, Case Study Project, Pinacate/Gran Desierto and Upper Gulf of

California/Colorado Delta Biosphere Reserves. UNESCO International Conference on

Biodiversity and Society (April 2001), New York

2000-2001: Member of Steering Committee, UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme

International Conference on Biodiversity and Society (April 2001, New York City).

http://www.earthscape.org/rr1/cbs01/

2000: Advisor, Global All-Species Inventory Initiative

2000: Invited participant, Udall Center (UofA)/UCMEXUS (Univ. Calif.) Binational

Workshops on International Water Policy Issues and Management in Lower Colorado River

Watershed. (October & November, 2000)

2000-present: Board of Directors, Sonoran Sea Aquarium

2000: Invited Participant, World Wildlife Fund workshop on "Selection and Prioritization

of Protected Marine and Coastal Zones in the Gulf of California." Guaymas, Sonora (2/14-

2/17)

1999-2001: Research Associate, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

1998-2004: Member, Board of Directors, CEDO (Center for the Study of Deserts & Oceans).

Member of Executive Committee, 1998-2004; member of Research Advisory Board, 1998-2004

1997-1998: Co-organizer (with Dr. Brian Kensley, Smithsonian Institution), 2nd

International Isopod Conference, Amsterdam (July 15-18, 1998)

1997-1998: Co-organizer, 2nd National Science Foundation PEET Workshop: Training

Tomorrow's Systematists. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1997-1998: Invited Nominator, PEW Fellows Program in Conservation and the Environment

1995-2001: Board of Directors, Slocum-Lunz Foundation

1997 - 2000: Board of Advisors, "The Shape of Life." An eight-part PBS series designed to

improve science education and introduce the public to the animal kingdom. Produced by Sea

Studios Foundation, in cooperation with National Geographic Television, National Science

Foundation, and WNET

1993-1998: Polar Collections Advisory Committee, Smithsonian Institution/N.S.F. (Chair,

1991-1992)

1996: Invited plenary speaker, Phylogeny of Life Conference, University of Arizona,

Tucson (http://eebweb.arizona.edu/RTG/rtg.html)

1996-1999: Editor (Crustacea Pages) and author (Isopod Page), Tree of Life Project

(http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html)

1995-2005: Taxonomic Specialist and Contractor, ETI (Expert Center for Taxonomic

Identification), University of Amsterdam

1995: Invited participant and organization committee member, North America - South

Africa: University Linkages Planning Workshop Series (Charleston, Washington D.C.,

Johannesburg)

1994-present: Appointed member, IUCN/SSC Inland Water Crustacea Specialist Group, IUCN

Species Survival Commission

1994: National Science Foundation, Panelist, workshop to develop criteria and guidelines

for systematic biology

1994-1997: Department of the Interior, ephemeral waters consultant to Bruce Babbitt,

Secretary of the Interior

1994-1996: N.O.A.A. National Undersea Research Program, member of grants review panel

1988-2000: PharmaMar, Madrid. Invertebrate zoologist, expedition planner, and scientific

diving consultant

1997-1999: Australian Research Council. Member, Panel of Assessors

1989-1993: Head, Diving Control Board, San Diego Natural History Museum

1988-1993: Adjunct Professor of Biology, California State University, San Diego

1991-1993: Systematics Agenda 2000: Integrating Biological Diversity and Societal Needs

(a national initiative), Co-Chair, Committee on Monographs and Classification

1984-1986, 1991-1996: The Charles Lindbergh Fund, Member of Technical Review Panels

1991-1992: "Darkened Waters: Profile of an Oil Spill," a traveling exhibit by the Pratt

Museum (Homer, Alaska) on the Alaska Exxon Valdez oil spill; member of Advisory Panel and

scientific editor for "Darkened Waters" (N. Lord, 66pp.), Pratt Museum, Homer

1990-1994: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, benthic invertebrate consultant (through Dames &

Moore, Inc.)

1988-1990: National Academy of Sciences Advisory Panel Member, PBS series "The Infinite

Voyage" (National Academy of Sciences/WQED Pittsburgh)

1986-1990: National Science Foundation, Biological Systematics Program, Advisory Panel

member

1985-1998: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), field reviewer

1985-1988: SeaPharm, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Invertebrate zoology

consultant

1985

-1986: University Research Committee, advisory to President of the University, U.S.C.

1982

-1986: Organization for Tropical Studies (O.T.S.), Member, Board of Directors

1980

-1995. The Crustacean Society (Founding and Charter Member, 1980;

University of Arizona-University of Sonora Cooperative

Marine Laboratory, Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico

1969

-1970: Curator and Assistant Investigator, Aquatic Insects Laboratory, California

State University, Los Angeles, CA

1968

-1969: Research Biochemist, CalBioChem, Los Angeles, CA

1964

-1965: Marine Biologist, U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP); 7 months in

Antarctica

D. TEACHING RECORD

Courses taught (grad and undergrad): Summer Biodiversity Institute; Insect Biodiversity

and Land Use Change in Sonora; Invertebrate Zoology; Vertebrate Zoology; Desert Ecology;

Natural History of Baja California and the Sea of Cortez; Biological Systematics;

Biogeography and Paleoecology; General Zoology; Marine Biology; Marine Ecology; Crustacean

Biology; Man and the Sea; Parasitology; Seminars on: Macroevolution, Cladistics,

Phylogenetic Analysis, Biogeography, Evolutionary Morphology of Arthropods; Scientific

Writing; Misc. field courses in Mainland Mexico and Baja California, Costa Rica, Panama

and Florida.

1981

-1983: Director of Academic Programs, Catalina Marine Science Center, U.S.C.

Responsible for organizing and overseeing spring undergraduate and summer graduate

teaching programs at Catalina Island Marine Laboratory.

1993

-1999: Director, Graduate Program in Marine Biology, University of South Carolina,

SC. Management of graduate program with ~60 students and ~95 graduate faculty; program

management, long-term curricular planning and implementation, acquisition of extramural

funding.

PhD Students:

E. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Invertebrate zoology; ecology and evolutionary biology; marine biology; biodiversity,

biogeography, and ecology of marine and ephemeral freshwater habitats; systematics,

evolution, biogeography and ecology of crustaceans; natural history and conservation of

the Sonoran Desert and Sea of Cortez; archeology of northwestern Mexico

F. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

2010. U.S. FOREST SERVICE. Citizens Awareness & Monitoring Program for Invasive Insects.

$15,000. (with Christine Conte)

2010. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE. Exhibits and Eduction on Rare Plants of the Sonoran

Desert Region. $26,188. (with Christine Conte)

2010. WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION. Migratory Species Research and Sonorensis

Underwriting. $40,000. (with Christine Conte)

2009. WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION. Migratory Species and Climate Change in the Sonoran

Desert. $45,000 (with Christine Conte)

2009. INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (IMLS). Phase IV, Arizona-Sonora Desert

Museum Digital Library. $150,000. (with Debra Colodner)

2009. SCHLINGER FOUNDATION. Research and Conservation Support for Arizona-Sonora Desert

Museum. $15,000.

2009. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Saguaros at Extremes. A Complicated Story at Tonto National

Monument, Arizona. $15,000.

2008. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Natural Resources Condition Assessment for Chiricahua

National Monument, Coronado National Memorial and Fort Bowie National Historic Site.

$120,000. (with Mark Dimmitt).

2008. SCHLINGER FOUNDATION. Research and Conservation Support for Arizona-Sonora Desert

Museum. $15,000.

2007. INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (IMLS). Phase III, Arizona-Sonora Desert

Museum Digital Library. $150,000. (with Mark Dimmitt)

2007. ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT. Support for ASDM public education programming.

$45,000. (with Christine Conte)

2007. FRIENDS OF TUMACACORI NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK. Documentation of Padre Eusebio Kino-

Era Heritage Fruit Trees from Europe, and Development of a Kino Orchard at Tumacacori

National Historical Park. $35,000. (with Jesus Garcia)

2007. SCHLINGER FOUNDATION. Research and Conservation Support for Arizona-Sonora Desert

Museum. $20,000.

2006. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE. Support for Research and Monitoring of E.S.A.-Listed

Plant and Animal Species. $48,000.

2006. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE AND BUREAU OF RECLAMATION. Captive Breeding of the

Endangered Freshwater Clam Anodonta californiensis (the California Floater ). $58,750.

(with Craig Ivanyi)

2006. SCHLINGER FOUNDATION. Research and Conservation Support for Arizona-Sonora Desert

Museum. $10,000.

2006. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Citizen scientist invasive species rapid detection &

reporting initiative; continuing support. $8,000

2006. SEA STUDIOS & NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. Citizen scientist invasive species rapid

detection & reporting initiative; continuing support. $35,000

2005. AMERICAN ZOO & AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION (AZA), Conservation Endowment Fund. Invaders: A

Citizen Scientist Invasive Species Initiative. $18,220.

2005. INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (IMLS). Phase II, Arizona-Sonora Desert

Museum Digital Library. $150,000. (with Mark Dimmitt)

2005. THE FEAR NOT FOUNDATION. Support for film project, In the Wake of Western Flyer.

$50,000 (with Lindsey Haskin)

2005. SEA STUDIOS & VULCAN PRODUCTIONS. Citizen scientist invasive species rapid

detection & reporting initiative. $53,000.

2004-2005. THE DAVID AND LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION. A benchmark analysis of Gulf of

California esteros/estuaries: status, importance, and research and conservation needs.

$84,000.

2004-2007. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Recovery and re-establishment of Father Eusebio Kino s

fruit trees from Sonora, Mexico. $40,000. (with Robert Emanuel)

2004. SONORAN INSTITUTE. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $5,000.

2004. CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004.

$5,000.

2004. WORLD WILDLIFE FUND. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $10,000.

2004. THE DAVID AND LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION. Support for The Gulf of California

Conference 2004. $30,000

2004. THE NATURE CONSERVANCY. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $5,000.

2004. HOMELAND FOUNDATION (aka MARISLA FOUNDATION). Support for The Gulf of California

Conference 2004 $10,000.

2004. SONORAN SEA AQUARIUM. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $10,000.

2003-2004. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Field Guide to Sonoran Desert Pollinators. $10,000.

2003-2004. WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION. A Natural History of the Sea of Cortez

(conference and book) Part 2. $15,000.

2003-2004. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Aquatic Invertebrate Survey, Santa Cruz River. $75,000.

2003. STONEWALL FOUNDATION. $30,000. Support for Amigos del Desierto Program, Arizona-

Sonora Desert Museum.

2003. BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL. $6,000. Bat education outreach in Southern Arizona.

2003.

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

. $6,000. Publication of Sea of Cortez Faunal Checklist.

2002

-2003. ORIGINS SOCIETY. $1,500. Underwriting for Sea of Cortez Conference.

2002

-2003. WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION. A Natural History of the Sea of Cortez

(conference and book) Part 1. $15,000.

2002

-2003. G.A. BINNEY FOUNDATION

. $5,000. Support for Conference on the Sea of Cortez.

2002

-2003. GILES MEAD FOUNDATION. $15,000. Hummingbird Nectar Corridors and Educational

Outreach in the Southern Arizona Border Region: An Extension of the Migratory Pollinators

Program.

2002

-2003. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. $14,000. Establishing pollinator gardens at Tumacacori

National Historic Site and San Lazaro (Sonora).

2002. SONORAN JOINT VENTURES. Borderland Pollinator Education. $10,000

2001-2002 (18 mos.). NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Botany internship for Organ Pipe National

Monument. Approx. $57,000.

2001

-2002 (18 mos.). NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Mountain lion internship for Saguaro National

Park. Approx. $36,000.

1999

-2001. UNESCO (United Nations). $15,000. A Case Study on the Upper Gulf of

California/Colorado River Delta and El Pinacate/Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserves

of Northwest Mexico.

1995

-2001. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: A Revision of the Cirolanidae (Crustacea:

Peracarida: Isopoda), with Monographs on Selected Genera and a Phylogenetic Analysis of

the Family. $633,000. (PEET Program, Division of Environmental Biology

)

1996

-1997. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Photo-Identification of

Bottlenose Dolphins. $10,499 (Graduate Student Support).

1996

-1997. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Sediment Toxicity Testing Using

Juvenile Clams. $2,119 (Graduate Student Support).

1995

-1996. CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: Biodiversity Database for the Sea of Cortez (Gulf

of California) - Phase II: $13,000.

1995

-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Photo-Identification of

Bottlenose Dolphins. $18,759 (Graduate Student Support).

1995

-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Role of Bacteria in PSP Toxin

Production and Evaluation of Phycotoxin Assays. $31,000. [Co-P.I. with Gregory Doucette]

(Graduate Student Support)

1995

-1996. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: Evolution of Polynesian Island Marine Faunas.

$9,000.

1995

-1996. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: Evolution of Polynesian Island Marine Faunas.

$3,800.

1995

-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Technical Support for Toxic

Dinoflagellate Research for National Marine Fisheries Service Charleston Laboratory.

$62,320 (Graduate Student Support).

1995

-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Graduate Student Fellowships

for University of Charleston students. $49,027.

1995. UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON, Research Committee. Biogeography of Polynesian Marine

Faunas. $2,500.

1994

-1997. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Database Management &

Assessment in Support of the Joint NOAA-NS&T/EPA-EMAP Coastal Research & Monitoring

Program. $299,090.

1993

-1995. CONABIO (Comision Nacional Para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad),

Mexico; Biodiversity Database for the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California). Phase I: $26,200

1993

-1994. U.S. NAVY: Biodiversity Analysis of Vernal Pool Arthropods on Miramar Naval

Air Station, San Diego, CA. $77,567.

1992

. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASH. D.C.: Short-term Visitors Grant.

1992

-1994. CalBioMarine Technologies/NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: Taxonomy and Collection

of Marine Invertebrates for Feasibility Studies on the Aquaculture of Marine Organisms for

Pharmacological Studies.

1992

-1994. PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC/BECHTEL: Survey of Vernal Pool Invertebrate Communities

of California's Central Valley. (M. Simovich)

1990

-1992. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans

of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. V.

1990

-1992. U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT/MINERALS MANAGEMENT SURVEY (through Science

Applications Inc.): Benthic Atlas of Santa Maria Basin, California (Crustacea, Isopoda).

1989

-1991. THE WEILER FOUNDATION: Biogeography of Polynesian Marine Faunas.

1989

-1991. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: Evolution of Polynesian Island Marine Faunas.

1988

. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASH. D.C.: Short-term Visitors Grant.

1987

-1989. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans

of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. IV.

1986

-1989. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Collection Facilities Support for Crustacea

Collection, L.A. County Museum of Natural History.

1986

-1987. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans

of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. III.

1985

-1986. THE RALPH J. WEILER FOUNDATION: Effects of Siltation on Invertebrate

Communities on a Caribbean Coral Reef (Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica).

1985

-1986. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: X-Ray Microanalysis

of Heavy Metals in the Sand Crab Emerita analoga. [for grad student support]

1984

-1985. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH:

Characterization of Ultrastructural Mineralization in Crustacean Exoskeleton and the Co-

deposition of Toxic Heavy Metals. [for grad student support]

1981

. THE CHARLES LINDBERGH FUND: Systematics of Costa Rican Isopod Crustaceans.

1981

-1983. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans

of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. II.

1978. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Comparative Studies on Tropical American Sargassum

Communities [one of several projects for joint use of the R/V Alpha Helix in the western

Caribbean

].

1978

-l979. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: The Roles of

Thermal Stress and Predation in the Regulation of Marine Isopod Crustacean Distributions

in the Eastern Pacific.

1978

-1980. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Visiting Scientist Support, Costa Rica. To assist

the University of Costa Rica's new Marine Sciences Institute with programs start-up.

1978

-1980. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans

of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. I.

1977

-1978. CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME: Survey of Coastal Sites of

Designated Ecological Significance in Southern California.

1977

-1978. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Reproduction

and Spermatophores of the Calanoid Copepod Acartia tonsa.

1976

-1977. N.O.A.A., SEA GRANT: Food Resource Dynamics and Utilization in a Channel

Island Macrocystis Habitat.

G. HONORS/AWARDS

2010. Estrella de MarAward, "in recognition of extraordinary contributions to advancing

knowledge, appreciation and protection of the Gulf of California." Centro Intercultural de

Estuios de Desiertos y Oceanos, Mexico/U.S.A.

2010. United States Department of the Interior, Land Stewardship Award to Southern

Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center, a not-for-profit (501c3) co-founded by R.C.

Brusca, Sarah Smallhouse, Julio Betancourt, Jim Kiser, and Alix Rogstad.

2007. Award from Pima County and Mr. Chuck Huckleberry (Pima County Supervisor), for

service on the Science and Technical Advisory Team for the Sonoran Desert Conservation

Plan, Pima County, Arizona.

2004

. New England Book Show: Juried award for best new college textbook: Invertebrates,

2nd ed. (R.C. Brusca/G.J. Brusca, Sinauer Associates).

2003: Play based on 1983 Brusca/Gilligan research on Cymothoa exigua. Tennessee Speaks

in Tongues for You by R.J. Tsarov. Premiered at annual Tennessee Williams Festival, 2003,

New Orleans (http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-04-01/thea_review.html); most

recent performance at Rhinofest, Chicago

(http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theaterreviews/060915_2/).

2001: Elected to Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

2000: Elected to Fellow, Linnean Society of London.

1995: Distinguished Achievement Award, School of Sciences and Mathematics, College of

Charleston.

1994: Hammer Award Nominee & Honorable Mention (as a member of the Fort Johnson Marine &

Environmental Health Laboratory Planning Team), "Heroes of Reinvention/Al Gore Hammer

Award" (Vice President Gore's "Reinventing Government Program")

1991-present: Honorary lifetime member Asociacion de Investigadores del Mar de Cortes.

1990. New England Book Show: Juried award for best new college textbook: Invertebrates

(R.C. Brusca/G.J. Brusca, Sinauer Associates).

1990: Commendation for editorial contributions to Revista de Biologia Tropical, the

scientific journal of the University of Costa Rica.

1989: Award of Recognition from The Binational Emergency Medical Care Committee [for

contributions to the well being of the people of Mexico]

1984-present: Patronyms: Colanthura bruscai Poore, 1984 (Isopoda); Excorallana bruscai

Delaney, 1984 (Isopoda); Cleantioides bruscai (Kensley, 1987) [as Miratidotea bruscai]

(Isopoda); Progebiophilus bruscai Salazar and Leija, 1989 (Isopoda); Schizobopyrina

bruscai Campos and Campos, 1990 (Isopoda); Apanthura bruscai Muller, 1992 (Isopoda);

Exosphaeroma bruscai Espinosa-Perez and Hendrickx, 2001 (Isopoda); Cirolana bruscai Bruce

& Olesen, 2002 (Isopoda); Aega rickbruscai Bruce, 2004 (Isopoda)

1981: Research Excellence Award, University of Southern California

1980: Charter Member, The Crustacean Society. President 1991-1993

1977 (to present): Sigma Xi (member-at-large)

1965: United States Antarctica Service Medal (Department of Defense)

H. EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press. Director, 2005-2011. Oversight of all ASDM Press book

acquisition, development, editing, design, printing and marketing.

Includes concept and development of bilingual children s books on Sonoran Desert natural

history, with accompanying curricular material, 2006-present. My Nana's Remedies (Roni

Capin-Ashford); Hip Hip, It's Monsoon Day (Roni Capin-Ashford); The Little Saguaro

(Shannon Young); Alice. A Story of Friendship (William Verbooten); Katie, of the Sonoran

Desert (Kate Jackson).

Includes concept and development of Dining with the Desert Museum (Tabasco 2006 Regional

Cookbook Award); A Desert Illuminated. Cactus Flowers of the Sonoran Desert; Desert

Gardens. A Photographic Tour of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Vanishing Circles.

Portraits of Disappearing Wildlife of the Sonoran Desert Region; and, Mountain Wildflowers

of Southern Arizona.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Publications in Natural History. Book series editor (co-

published by ASDM Press and University of Arizona Press). 2001-present.

Tropical Zoology, National Research Institute of Italy. Member of Advisory Board, 2002-

present.

Ciencias del Mar, UAS. Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Member, Editorial Board, 1998-present.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Member, Board of Consulting Editors,

1996-2000.

Invertebrate Taxonomy. CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia. Regional Advisor, North America, 1991-

present.

Investigaciones Marinas. The International Marine Science Journal of CICIMAR (Centro

Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico). Member,

Editorial Board, 1989-present.

Kansas Biology Teacher. Consultant to the Editor, Kansas Biology Teacher, Emporia State

University, KA, 1992-present.

San Diego Museum of Natural History. Member, Editorial Board, 1987-1994. (Proceedings,

Science Series, Transactions)

Allan Hancock Foundation. Editor, 1978-1985; Member of Publications Committee, 1977-1990.

(Monographs in Marine Biology, Occasional Papers, Techical Reports, Miscellaneous

Publications).

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Member of Editorial Board, 1985-1987.

(Contributions in Science, Science Series, Technical Series).

Gayana. The zoology journal of the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. Member, Editorial

Board. 1983-1990.

I. EXPEDITIONARY AND FIELD RESEARCH

New World: Throughout North, Central and South America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador,

Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Galapagos Is., Peru, Uruguay, Chile; extensive in Mexico,

Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina/Tierra del Fuego); throughout Caribbean (extensive in Virgin

Is., Bahamas, Roatan, San Adres, Belize Barrier Reef). Submersible work (Johnson SeaLink)

in Caribbean and Galapagos Islands.

Pacific: Bora Bora, Moorea, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Tonga (Nuku'alofa, Vava'u),

American and Western Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Australia (extensive), New Zealand, Hawaii,

Antarctica.

Old World: Throughout Western Mediterranean, Spain, Morocco, South Africa, Swaziland,

Namibia, Madagascar.

PUBLICATIONS OF RICHARD C. BRUSCA

(* refereed work; authored/edited books in boldface)

1. *1971. Brusca, R.C. A new species of Leptohyphes from Mexico (Ephemeroptera:

Tricorythidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47(2): 146-148.

2. *1972. Brusca, R.C. and J. Haig. Range extensions of porcelain and hermit crabs in the

Gulf of California. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 71(1): 56.

3. 1973. Brusca, R.C. The fiddler crabs of the Gulf of California, Part I: Ecology. The

Stomatopod 3(1): 16-17.

4. 1973. Brusca, R.C. The fiddler crabs of the Gulf of California, Part II: Taxonomy. The

Stomatopod 3(2): 38-40.

5. *1973. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca. New species of Leptohyphinae from Mexico and Central

America (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae). Canad. Entomol. 105: 83-95.

6. 1973. Brusca, R.C. A Handbook to the Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of

California. 427 pp., 295 figs. Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson.

7. *1973. Brusca, R.C. & R.K. Allen. A new species of Choroterpes from Mexico (Insecta:

Ephemeroptera). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 46: 137-139.

8. *1973. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca. The known geographic distribution of the Mexican

mayfly genera in North America (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). Proc. First Internat. Conf.

Ephemeroptera. E.J. Brill, Leiden, Holland. Pp. 49-63.

9. 1974. Brusca, R.C. La Paz, the City of Peace. Part I. The Region of La Paz and its

History. The Stomatopod 4(l): 16-18.

10. 1975. Brusca, R.C. Report of the Alpha Helix Baja California Expedition, Zoological

classification. In, Alpha Helix Research Program,

1972-1974. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr.,

Univ. Calif. San Diego: 72-73.

11. 1975

. Hager, L.P., R.H. White, P.F. Hollenberg, R.C. Brusca, D.L. Doubeck, and R.

Guerrero

. A survey of organic halogens in marine organisms. Report of the Alpha Helix Baja

California Expedition. In, Alpha Helix Research Program,

1972-1974. Scripps Inst.

Oceanogr., Univ. Calif. San Diego: 73-75.

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1975. Hager, L.P., R.H. White, P.F. Hollenberg, R.C. Brusca, & D.L. Doubeck. A

rearranged dibromotryosine metabolite from the sponge Verongia aurea. Tetrahedron Letters

8: 507-510.

13.

1976. Rinehart, K.L., W.O. McClure, L.P. Hager & R.C. Brusca. A survey of organic

halogens in marine organisms. Proc. Food & Drugs from the Sea Conference, 1974. J. Mar.

Tech. Soc., pp. 421-428.

14. *1976. Brusca, R.C. Evolucion geologica del norte del Golfo de California y

comentarios sobre su fauna. In, SONORA: ANTROPOLOGIA DEL DESIERTO, SESSION DE ECOLOGIA DEL

DESIERTO DE SONORA. Inst. Nac. Anthro. Hist., pp. 85-93.

15. *1977. Snyder-Conn, E. & R.C. Brusca. Shrimp population dynamics and fishery impact

in the northern Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas 1(3): 54-67.

16. *1977. Brusca, R.C. & D.A. Thomson. The Pulmo Reefs of Baja California - true coral

reef formation in the Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas 1(3): 37-53.

17. 1977. Brusca, R.C. & J. Coyer. Food resource dynamics and utilization in a Channel

Island Macrocystis habitat. In, The Planning and Management of California's Coastal

Resources. Univ. So. Calif. Sea Grant Ann. Rpts., pp. 20-21.

18. *1977. Brusca, R.C. & B.R. Wallerstein. The marine isopod crustaceans of the Gulf of

California. I. Family Idoteidae. Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 2634: 1-17.

http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/docs/brusca_wallerstein_1977.pdf

19. *1977. Brusca, R.C. Range extensions and new host records of cymothoid isopods

(Isopoda: Cymothoidae) in the east Pacific. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 76(2): 128-131.

20. *1978. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca. Generic revisions of mayfly nymphs. II. Thraulodes

in North and Central America (Leptophlebiidae). Canad. Entomol. 110: 413-433.

21. 1978. Coyer, J. & R.C. Brusca. Food resource dynamics and utilization in a Channel

Island Macrocystis habitat [update]. Pp. 18-20 in, The Planning and Management of

California's Coastal Resources. Univ. So. Calif. Sea Grant Ann. Rpt.

22. *1978. Brusca, R.C. Studies on the cymothoid fish symbionts of the eastern pacific

(Isopoda: Cymothoidae). I. Biology of Nerocila californica. Crustaceana 34(2): 141-154.

23. *1978. Brusca, R.C. and M. Ninos. The status of Cirolana californiensis Schultz and

Cirolana deminuta Menzies and George, with a key to the California species of Cirolana

(Isopoda: Cirolanidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 91(2): 379-385.

24. 1978. Brusca, G.J. & R.C. Brusca. A Naturalist's Seashore Guide. Common Marine Life

of the Northern California Coast and Adjacent Shores. 205 pp. Mad River Press, CA.

25. *1978. Brusca, R.C. Studies on the cymothoid fish symbionts of the Eastern Pacific

(Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae). II. Biology and systematics of Lironeca vulgaris. Occ.

Paps. Allan Hancock Fdn. (n. ser.) 2: 1-19.

26. *1979. Brusca, R.C. and B.R. Wallerstein. Zoogeographic patterns of idoteid isopods

in the northeast Pacific, with a review of shallow-water zoogeography for the region.

Bull. Biol. Soc. Wash. 3: 67-105.

27. *1979. Brusca, R.C. & B.R. Wallerstein. The marine isopod crustaceans of the Gulf of

California. II. Idoteidae. New genus, new species, new records, and comments on the

morphology, taxonomy and evolution within the family. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 92(2): 253-

271.

28. 1979

. Brusca, R.C. Heisler Park Ecological Reserve, Orange County, CA. California

Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt.

79-2: 1-29.

29. 1979

. Brusca, R.C. Irvine Coast Marine Life Refuge, Orange County, CA. California

Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt.

79-3: 1-30.

http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/docs/brusca_irvine_beach_rpt_1979.pdf

30. 1979

. Brusca, R.C. Newport Beach Marine Life Refuge, Orange County, CA. California

Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt.

79-4: 1-25.

http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/docs/brusca_newport_beach_rpt_1979.pdf

31. 1980. Brusca, R.C. The Allan Hancock Foundation of the University of Southern

California. Assoc. Systematics Collections Newsletter 8(1): 1-7.

32. 1980. Brusca, R.C. Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd

Edition. 513 pp, 340 figs, 243 B&W photos, color photos. Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

33. 1980. Brusca, R.C. & D.M. Perry. The function of the shell spine in the predaceous

intertidal snail Acanthina spirata. Amer. Zool. 20(4): 919. [abstract]

34. *1980. Thun, M. & R.C. Brusca. On the status of the eastern Pacific cymothoid fish

parasite Braga occidentalis Boone, and its synonymy with B. patagonica Schioedte and

Meinert (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae). Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 79(3): 130-132.

35. *1981. Rinehart, K.L. and 24 other authors. Marine natural products as sources of

antiviral, antimicrobial, and antineoplastic agents. Pure & Appl. Chem. 53: 795-817.

36. *1981. Brusca, R.C. A monograph on the Isopoda Cymothoidae (Crustacea) of the Eastern

Pacific. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. (London) 73(2): 117-199.

http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/docs/brusca_1981_cymothoidae.pdf

37. *1982. Wallerstein, B.R. & R.C. Brusca. Fish predation: A preliminary study of its

role in the zoogeography and evolution of shallow-water idoteid isopods (Crustacea:

Isopoda: Idoteidae). J. Biogeography 9: 135-150.

38. *1982. Bruce, N.L., R.C. Brusca, & P.M. Delaney. The status of the isopod families

Corallanidae Hansen, 1890 and Excorallanidae Stebbing, 1904 (Flabellifera). J. Crustacean

Biol. 2(3): 464-468.

39. *1983. Brusca, R.C. A monograph on the isopod family Aegidae in the tropical Eastern

Pacific. I. The

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