PROJECT PERSONNEL
Principal Investigator
John R. Holsinger, PhD, University of Kentucky, 1966. Professor of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University; Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution and Virginia Museum of Natural History. Principal research interests: systematics and evolutionary biology of subterranean amphipods; biogeography of subterranean crustaceans; biospeleology; conservation of cave and karst ecosystems and their endangered species.
Research Associates
Jun Zhang, PhD, Old Dominion University, 1997. Principal research interests: systematics and evolutionary biology of freshwater/subterranean amphipods in the genus Crangonyx; application of computers to systematics; biospeleology.
Stefan Koenemann, PhD, Old Dominion University, 2000. Principal research interests: crustacean phylogeny; evolutionary history, biogeography, morphology, and taxonomy of subterranean amphipods; field work; database and web site development and construction.
Daqing Wang, MS, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 1990. Ph.D, Old Dominion University, 2001. Principal research interests: systematics and evolutionary biology of amphipod crustaceans and myriapodous arthropods; biospeleology; application of computers to systematics.
Tom Sawicki, BS, Eastern Connecticut State University 1998. PhD, Old Dominion University, 2004. Principal research interests: morphological and molecular systematics, biogeography and ecology of subterranean amphipods; field work: biological investigation of anchialine caves using cave diving techniques.
Faculty Associate
James D. Thomas, PhD, Florida Institute of Technology, 1991. Associate Professor, Oceanographic Center, Nova University, Dania, Florida; Adjunct Professor, Old Dominion University. Principal research interests: taxonomy, ecology and phylogeny of tropical marine amphipods; marine biology; marine biodiversity; inventories of coral reef systems; environmental monitoring and assessment.