Researchers

I have been exploring and conducting natural history research throughout Baja California (with emphasis on the Central Desert/Valle de los Cirios) for 50 years. My work has focused on entomology, botany, and natural history, with projects relating to most invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant groups. Field research has concentrated on beetles and ants and invertebrate biodiversity as well as long-term studies on some dominant plants in the desert. A focus of my work is maintaining museum voucher collections of Baja California invertebrates for all to use in perpetuity. Hence my affiliations with the two museum collections that I co-founded: (Director, Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho 83605 USA; and Investigador Adjunto, Museo de Artrópodos del CICESE, Departamento de Biología de la Conservación, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico). I have published some of the results of the biodiversity and natural history research. I recently participated in the Los Cardones biodiversity sampling project (Arroyo la Junta: Una joya de biodiversidad en la Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra La Laguna) in December 2015 and have published two papers and given several presentations from that collaborative project. On a personal note, Mary and I recently built a house just north of San Felipe, Baja California, and have made it available for use by researchers in entomology and herpetology, thus far.