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Annals of the Smithsonian Institution 2000 



Evolution of Diets and Conotoxins of Tropical American 

 'Conus'," with Harilaos Lessios from October i, 1999 to 

 September 30, 2002. 



Ahn-Heum Eom, Postdoctoral Mellon Fellow, Kansas State 

 University. "Characterizing Identities, Distributions, and 

 Effects of Mycorrhizal Species on Barro Colorado Island," 

 with Allen Herre from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 

 2000. 



Amy E. Faivre, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of 

 Arizona. "Microhabitat and Pollinator Effects on Sexual 

 and Incompatibility System Variation of 'Psychotria' 

 Species on Barro Colorado Island," with S. Joseph Wright 

 and E. Allen Herre from May 1, 2000 to July 31, 2001. 



Hironobu Fukami, Visiting Scientist, Tokyo University of 

 Fisheries. "Reproductive and Genetic Study on Evolution 

 of Corals in the Family Acroporidae," with Nancy 

 Knowlton from May 15, 2000 to November 15, 2001. 



Rachel Goeriz, Short-Term Fellow, University of California, 

 Davis. "The Importance of the Number of Extrafloral 

 Nectaries in Plant Defense," with William Wcislo from 

 September 1, 2000 to November 30, 2000. 



Adam Hart, Short-Term Fellow, University of Sheffield. 

 "Leaf-dumping and waste management in field colonies of 

 leaf-cutting ants," with William Wcislo from March 1, 

 2000 to May 31, 2000. 



Gwen Keller, Visiting Scientist, University of Georgia. 

 "Consequences of Wolbachia Infection in Natural 

 Populations of Tropical Leaf Beetles," with Donald 

 Windsor from May 15, 2000 to August 14, 2001. 



Cynthia Kicklighter, Short-Term Fellow, Skidway Institute 

 of Oceanography. "Defensive Strategies in Marine 

 Worms," with Nancy Knowlton from September 1, 2000 

 to November 30, 2000. 



Owen T Lewis, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Leeds University, 

 England. "Spatial Population Structure of Tropical 

 Insects: Does Resource Fragmentation Lead to Meta- 

 population Structure?" with Donald Windsor and Allen 

 Herre from September 15, 2000 to December 14, 2000. 



Julio Mercader, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad 

 Complutense, Spain. "Human Colonization and 

 Environmental History in the African Rain Forest," with 

 Dolores Piperno from October 1, 1999 to September 30, 

 2000. 



Georges A. Pearson, Short-Term Fellow, University of 



Kansas. "The First Panamanians and the Role of the 

 Isthmus during the Peopling of the New World," with 

 Richard Cooke from September 1, 2000 to November 30, 

 2000. 



Kimberly B. Ritchie, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of 

 North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Phylogenetic Analysis and 

 Host Range Studies of a Sea Urchin Pathogen," with 

 Harilaos Lessios and Penelope Barnes from June 1, 2000 

 to August 31, 2000. 



Louis Santiago, Short-Term Visitor, University of Florida. 

 "Leaf Functional Characteristics Along an Environment 

 Gradient: Energy and Longevity Character Syndromes," 

 with Joseph Wright from May 15, 2000 to August 15, 

 2000. 



Adam Smith, Short-Term Visitor, University of Washington. 

 "Social Behavior in the Sweet Bee Megalopta," with 

 William Wcislo from January 2, 2000 to April 1, 2000. 



Renate Sponer, Short-Term Visitor, University of Otago. 

 "Cryptic Speciation in a Cosmopolitan Marine 

 Invertebrate: Phylogeography, Population Genetics, and 

 Reproductive Mode of Amphipholis squamata," with 

 Haris Lessios from March 1, 2000 to May 30, 2000. 



Edward Tanner, Mellon Senior Fellow, University of 



Cambridge, United Kingdom. "Assesing the Importance 

 in Nutrient Cycling by a Large-Scale Litter Removal 

 Experiment at Gigante BCNM," with S. Joseph Wright 

 from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2003. 



Dominic G. Valdez, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, 

 California State University. "Genetic Sequence 

 Divergence and Morphological Differentiation of the 

 Cypridinid Ostracode Crustacean, Skogsbergia lerneri, 

 from the Isthmus of Panama," with Harilaos Lessios and 

 Eldredge Bermingham from July 17, 2000 to September 

 22, 2000. 



Karen M. Warkentin, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of 

 Texas. "Adaptive Timing of Hatching in Red-Eyed 

 Treefrogs: How Do Embryos Assess Risk?" with A. 

 Stanley Rand and Mary Jane West-Eberhard from June 1, 

 2000 to August 31, 2001. 



Ben H. Warren, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of East 

 Anglia, England. "Historical Biogeography and Evolution 

 of Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands," with Eldredge 

 Bermingham from September 15, 2000 to December 31, 

 2001. 



Accessibility Office 



Luisa de Lachica 



Smithsonian Internships in Fiscal Year 2000 



BA Candidate Universidad Iberoamericana 



Research on accessibility programs at the museum. 



5/30/00 to 8/11/00 



Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture 



Remi Allen 



BA Candidate Howard University 2/22/00 to 5/16/00 



Research historical grounds (i.e., churches, businesses, underground railroad) where African Ameri- 

 cans could "roam freely." My findings will conrribute to a walking and bus tour for the Smithsonian. 



