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so far contributed to the research programs of undergraduates such as those in our NSF-fimded 
Reseach Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site. The second author of this paper was an REU 
student in the summer of 2012. A high school student in the Academy’s Student Science Fellows 
program is working on heart urchins from the Philippines collected during the Expedition, and sev¬ 
eral graduate students are using Philippines material for their research. Our ouheach and collabo¬ 
rations during the the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition also helped to train students 
from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, laying the groundwork for fliture joint research on 
diversity in the region. Therefore, the Expedition is yielding rich scientific dividends alongside the 
goal of training the next generation of systeniatists who will inherit the challenges of preserving 
marine biodiversity for their own generation and those that will follow. 
Acknowledgments 
We would first like to acknowledge Margaret and Will Hearst, without whose generosity the 
2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition would not have existed. We also received gener¬ 
ous in-kind support from Philippines Airlines, the Dusit Thani Hotel in Manila, and Wayfair Tours 
of Manila. The work of AM was funded by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experi¬ 
ences for Undergraduates initiative, grant DBI 0754804 to RM. Malou Babilonia and Maiy Lou 
Salcedo receive our thanks for their friendship and help along so many steps of the way. Ludivina 
Labe, Alma Dickson, Captain Emaldo T. Cawaling, Rafael Ramiscal, and Loida Cainglit were 
instmmental to our work on during the deep-sea component. All of the friends, partners, and col¬ 
laborators on various aspects of the shallow-water and deep-sea components of the Expedition are 
too numerous to mention here by name. Most have been acknowledged in other reports on the 
Expedition. This leaves me to mention individuals who contributed dfrectly to the discovery, col- 
leetion, and identification of echinoids during our shallow water work off southern Luzon in the 
Verde Island Passage, and on board the MW “DA-BFAR”. Sharp-eyed Philippine colleagues who 
brought to our attention so many fascinating specimens include Peter Cadapan, Joseph Comen- 
dador, Don Dumale, Aissa Domingo, Rachel Gotanco, Luvi Labe, Marivene Manuel Santos, Eve¬ 
lyn Mendoza, and Zenaida Salazar. We also tip our hats to the excellent student and scientist sup¬ 
port crew on the ship. Our dive guides in the VIP were no less alert and we would like to thank Peri 
Paleracio, Alexis Principe, and Ditto de la Rosa in finding many echinoids that might otheiwise 
have escaped our notice. RM would like to single out the Philippine students from the University 
of the Philippines, Diliman who enthusiastically worked alongside him both on shore and in the 
sea. In part, this paper is dedicated to them because they represent the future of marine research in 
the Philippines: Inggat Casilagan, Jay Gorospe, Elizaldy Maboloc, and Bryan Rodriquez. And last, 
but of course not least, we thank our Academy teammates on the Expedition, and all the collections 
support staff who cataloged and/or identified material forming the basis of the echinoid list, notably 
Bob Van Syoc, Christina Piotrowski, and Kelly Markello. 
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