Science Staff
Anthropology
Kathryn H. Leacock
Curator of Collections
Research Fellows:
- John D. Holland
- Buffalo Museum of Science, New York, USA
- Research Interests: Native American Chert
Research Associates:
- Dr. H. James Birx
- Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, USA
- Dena Çirpili, Objects Conservation Services, Buffalo, New York, USA
- Research Interests: Conservation of archeological and ethnographic objects
- Dr. Robert J. Foster
- University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
- Research Interests: Nationalism, globalization, mass media, material culture and mass consumption
- Dr. Donald Perry
- Branchport, NY, USA
- Research Interests: Canopy ecology and canopy evolution
- Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz
- University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Donald A. Smith,
Buffalo, New York, USA
Research Interests: Native American Ceramic Typology
Astronomy
Research Associate:
- Alan Friedman
- Buffalo Astronomical Society, Buffalo, New York, USA
- Research Interests: Astro-photography.
- Photo website: Averted Imagination
Biogeography and Evolution
Research Associates:
- Dr. Jurg De Marmels
- Instituto de Zoologia Agricola, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad
- Central de Venezuela
- Research Interests: dragonfly systematics and biogeography
- Dr. Malte Ebach
- Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Freie Universität
- Berlin Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8D-14191 Berlin
- Research Interests: Comparative biogeography and Earth history
- Dr. Micheal Heads
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Research Interests: Biogeography and plant evolution
- Dr. Juan Morrone
- Museo de Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera" Departamento de Biología
- Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.
- Research interests: evolutionary biogeography, cladistics and arthropods.
- Mr. Dennis McCarthy
- North Hampton, New Hampshire, USA
- Research Interests: Earth history theory
Botany
Research Associates:
- Dr. Timothy Baroni
- SUNY, College at Cortland, New York, USA
- Dr. Alan Bessette
- Utica College of Syracuse University, New York, USA
- Research Interests: Mycology, particualrly systematics of mushrooms and boletes
Patricia Eckel
Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri, USA
Dr. Roy Halling
New York Botanical Garden, New York, USA
Dr. Beatriz Ortiz-Santana
USDA Forest Service, Madison Wisconsin, USA
Ecology
David Spiering
Ecologist, Tifft Nature Preserve
Research Interests: Wildlife Ecology, Invasive Species Management, Habitat Restoration
Geology
Research Associates:
Dr. Richard Laub
Buffalo Museum of Science, New York
- John McAndrews
- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Research Interests: Paleobotany and climate history
Bill and Kris Parsons
Buffalo Museum of Science, New York.
Invertebrate zoology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, USA
Danville-Peacham, Vermont, USA
Research Interests: Systematics of tortricid moths
Vertebrate Zoology
- Dr. Sara Morris
- Canisius College, New York, USA
- Research Interests: Songbird migration
