Who We Are...
The staff of the Animal Diversity Web are all employed through the
Museum of Zoology at the
University of Michigan.
Current team members:
Dr. Phil Myers, Ph.D.
Director and founder of the Animal Diversity Web. Associate Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Zoology, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dr. Tricia Jones, Ph.D.
Educational researcher, site design consultant
Roger Espinosa, M.S.
Technical Lead: content management, XML templates, search engines, taxonomy database. Sometimes the resident cartoonist.
- Chris Hamilton, M.S.
- Interface designer, programmer, information architect, usability engineer.

- Dr. Tanya Dewey, Ph.D
- Editor, author, content expert (mammals, birds)
- George Hammond, M.S., Ph.D Candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Editor, author, content expert (invertebrates, herps)
Former ADW team members:
Dr. Cyndy Sims Parr, Ph.D.
former Director of Content Development, taxon database wrangler, image guru, crow lady; now a Research Scientist in the
Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland
- Becca Anderson, M.T.
- Editor, administrative assistant; now Senior Manager of Educational Programs at the New Detroit Science Center
- Alejandra Chiesa, M.S., M.L.A
- Digital photographer; now Biologist and Landscape Designer for
The Bioengineering Group, Inc.
- Dr. Toni Gorog, Ph.D.
- Author, digital photographer; now Science Adviser for the Wildife Conservation Society
program in Indonesia
- Dr. Sharon Jansa, Ph.D.
- Author, digital photographer; now
Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota.
- Dr. Alan Wolf, Ph.D
- Author, digital photographer; now
Biology Learning Technology Consultant in the Division of Information Technology and the Center for Biology Education at UW-Madison.
- Bruce Worden, B.F.A.
- Digital photographer; now free-lance artist and illustrator, member of
Michigan Science Art
- Alaine Camfield, M.S., Ph.D. student, University of British Columbia
- Editor, author, content expert (birds)
- Dr. Renee Sherman Mulcrone, M.S., Ph.D
- Editor, content expert (invertebrates, freshwater fish)
- Nancy Shefferly, M.S.
- Editor, author (mammals)
