March, 2000 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No. 11 
VICE-PRESIDENT 
TREASURER 
Leslie Harris 
Collections manager of the Allan Hancock 
Foundation Polychaete Collection, at the Los 
Angeles County Museum of natural History. 
Ongoing research centers on taxonomy of the 
polychaete fauna of pacific North America, 
polychaete-algal associations (especially in 
Macrocystis ), introduced species, and 
Caribbean reef polychaetes. 
SECRETARY 
Megan Lilly 
Graduated from Humboldt State University in 
1991 with a B.S. in Marine Biology. From 
1991 to 1993, worked at the Santa Barbara 
Museum of Natural History where the 
taxonomy of marine mollusks was studied 
under Dr. Eric Hochberg, Paul Scott, and Hank 
Chaney. Currently working as a marine 
biologist for the City of San Diego’s Ocean 
Monitoring Program. Specialities include 
echinoderms and mollusks, with an emphasis 
on cephalopods. 
Ann Dalkey 
Ann is presently the Treasurer for SCAMIT 
and has held this position since SCAMIT was 
founded. Ann is a member of the water 
biology staff at the Hyperion Treatment Plant 
where she specializes in the identification of 
polychaetes and amphipod crustaceans. Prior 
to working at Hyperion, Ann was a member of 
the laboratory staff at the County Sanitation 
Districts of Orange County. She worked there 
for nearly 10 years, reaching a position of 
senior laboratory and research analyst. She 
received her B.S. from California State 
University Long Beach in Marine Biology in 
1974 and her M.S. from the same university in 
1982. Her thesis research pertained to 
polychaete bioassay. 
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BARNARD, J. LAURENS. 1960. The amphipod family Phoxocephalidae in the Eastern Pacific 
Ocean, with analyses of other species and notes for a revision of the family. Allan 
Hancock Pacific Expeditions 18(3): 175-375. 
—, and Charline M. Barnard. 1982. Revision of Foxiphalus and Eobrolgus (Crustacea: 
Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae) from American oceans. Smithsonian Contributions to 
Zoology 372:1-35. 
BERNARD, FRANK R. 1983. Catalogue of the living Bivalvia of the eastern Pacific Ocean: 
Bering Strait to Cape Horn. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic 
Sciences 61:1-102 
CHAPMAN, JOHN W. 1988. Invasions of the northeast Pacific by asian and Atlantic 
gammaridean amphipod crustaceans, including a new species of Corophium. Journal of 
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COAN, EUGENE V. 1999. The eastern Pacific species of Sphenia (Bivalvia : Myidae). Nautilus 
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— & Paul H. Scott. 1995. Checklist of the marine bivalves of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. 
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