Copyright 1994 to 2003 by the Regents of the University of California, all rights reserved. en-us http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/essig/ Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:13:00 PST Essig Museum of Entomology garb@nature.berkeley.edu Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:33:13 PST http://www.coleopterosdechile.cl/ Drs. Elizabeth T. Arias and Kipling Will have received $350,000 from the National Science Foundation to study the unique Arthropoda of the Temperate Chilean Forest. This project will be a tremendous advance in the discovery of new taxa, unknown and threatened, in this isolated area of the planet. A major means of specimen collection and species discovery for this project will be fogging the canopies of Monkey Puzzle trees (Araucarias), a little explored habitat bound to hold a high arthropod diversity. This research will cast light on the relict arthropod groups whose ancestors were distributed across the ancient Gondwanian land mass and will help clarify meaningful phylogenetical hypothesis for these animals. Additional funds for this project have also been awarded to Dr. Arias from the Marion and Evert Schlinger Foundation. http://nature.berkeley.edu/~kiplingw/ The Nation Science Foundation has awarded a $131,000 grant for a Revisionary-Systematics grant to the Essig Museum's Dr. Kipling Will for the study of loxandrine ground beetles in Australia and the Americas. The focus of this study will be a monograph of all Australian species and classification of the generic-level taxa of the world. This group of beetles a model system for study of the evolution of defensive compounds, which are produced by a pair of pygidial glands in these beetles, and historical biogeography of the group, given their distribution in the Australian, South American and North American regions.