Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Research and Collections/Crustacea
900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007
Telephone 1.213.763.3440
email: jmartin@nhm.org
I am a morphologist and evolutionary biologist interested in just about all groups of crustaceans, and in nearly all aspects of crustacean evolution. I am especially interested in the morphology and evolution of the Decapoda (crabs, shrimps, lobsters and their allies) and the rather primitive looking crustaceans that make up the Branchiopoda (fairy shrimp, brine shrimp, tadpole shrimp, clam shrimp, and water fleas). I am also interested in other groups (for example, the Leptostraca) that are important to our understanding of the relationships among the major crustacean groups or that play an important ecological role, and I have a long-standing interest in crustacean biogeography. To get a better understanding of the relationships of crustaceans, I study characters revealed by Scanning Electron Microscopy, information from larval development, color patterns from crustaceans freshly collected and photographed in the field, and occasionally behavioral and molecular information. Like most marine biologists, I am also deeply concerned about conservation and preservation of marine habitats, and so I strive to heighten public awareness of marine life and of our dependency on the sea whenever possible. Because crustaceans are found in a wide variety of habitats, my field work takes me from isolated oceanic islands to deep sea hydrothermal vents, and from tropical islands and their coral reefs to ephemeral freshwater pools in temperate forests of the southwest U.S. and in western deserts. Although my main employer is the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, I am also an adjunct professor at both USC and UCLA, where I have the opportunity to interact with faculty and graduate students.
Personal Data
Education and Degrees
Academic and Research Positions
Administration
Funding History
Honors and Awards
Invited Seminars and Symposia
Society Affiliations
Referee Activities
Research Interests
University Teaching and Service
Field Experience
Professional, Editorial, and Museum Service Committees
Additional Skills
References
Publications (PDF reprints)
Popular Media Recognition
Invertebrate Zoology Section (Crustacea)
Research & Collections Branch
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007
Phone: (213) 763-3440; Fax: (213) 746-2999
E-mail: jmartin@nhm.org
B.S. University of Kentucky, Zoology, 1978
M.S. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Biology, 1981
Advisor: Dr. Darryl L. Felder
Thesis Title: A Comparative Study of Morphology and Ontogeny in
Juvenile Stages of Four Western Atlantic Xanthoid Crabs (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Brachyura)
Ph.D. Florida State University, Biological Science, 1986
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence G. Abele
Dissertation Title: Morphology and Evolution of the Aeglidae (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Anomura)
Research Assistant - University of Southwestern Louisiana,
1979-1980
Teaching Assistant - University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1980-1981
Teaching Assistant - Florida State University, 1981-1983
Research Assistant - Florida State University, 1983-1985
Visiting Research Associate - Florida State University, 1986-1988
Assistant Curator of Invertebrates - Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County, 1988-1989
Research Associate - San Diego Natural History Museum, 1988-present
Professor of Biology (Adjunct) - University of Southern California,
1988 - present
Associate Curator of Invertebrates - Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County, 1989-1993
Professor of Biology (Adjunct) - UCLA, 1993 - present
Full Curator of Invertebrates - Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles County, April 1993 - present
Program Director, National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology
Program, and Biotic Surveys and Inventories Program (August 11,
1997, through August 10, 1998)
Acting Deputy Director (Interim Service), Research and Collections
Branch - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1992, 1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, 1999
Facility Coordinator and Supervisor, LACM Molecular and Biochemical
Systematics Laboratory, 1991-1993 (coordinating and advising activities
of the facility's Laboratory Manager and all student and faculty
users)
Supervision of all LACM Crustacea Section staff, volunteer, research,
and collections activities, 1988-present.
Academic Scholarship, Univ. Southwestern Louisiana, 1979-1980, and 1980-1981.
USL Foundation, Travel grant, for systematic work on Isopod Crustacea at the U.S. National Museum (Smithsonian). 1979-1980. $1,200.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. BSR-8414347, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Morphology and Evolution of the Aeglidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura). (with L. G. Abele) 1984-1987. $4,850.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. BSR-8615018, Comparative morphology and evolution of the Conchostraca. 1987-1989. $84,000.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. BSR-8605174, Biotic Systems and Resources; collections support grant for transfer of Allan Hancock Foundation collection of Crustacea (originally awarded to R. C. Brusca, transferred to J. Martin in 1988). 1987-1990. $333,661.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. BSR-8806676, Symposium entitled "Sex Attraction, Mating Behavior, and Insemination in Crustacea" (with R. T. Bauer). 1988-1989. $7,245.
Smithsonian Institution Short Term Visitor Award, Review of the crab family Homolodromiidae, June, 1989. $1,011.
Taylor Life Sciences Fund (Natural History Museum of L.A. County), Phylogeny of spiny lobsters based on adult and larval characters (doctoral student support). October, 1990. $400.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. DIR-9010639, Equipment for Biochemical and Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (with S. George). 1990-1991. $54,000.
American Philosophical Society, Grant Ref. No. 001072, Phylogeny of hydrothermal vent crabs based on ribosomal RNA sequences. 1990-1991. $2,000.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. BSR-9020088, Comparative Morphological and Molecular Phylogeny of the Branchiopod Crustacea. 1991-1995. $88,843.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. RFO-9021872, Replacement of Biochemical Systematics Laboratory, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (with S. George). 1991-1992. $103,992.
Ralph J. Weiler Foundation, Decapod Crustacea of Cocos Island, Eastern Pacific. 1991-1993. $10,000.
National Geographic Society, Grant No. 4888-92, Decapod Crustacea of Cocos Island, Eastern Pacific. 1992 - 1994. $10,669.
National Geographic Society, Grant No. 5083-93, Involvement of Costa Rican Scientists in Decapod Crustacea Research (supplement to above). 1993-1994. $4,690.
Taylor Life Sciences Fund (Natural History Museum of L.A. County), Decapod Crustacea of Cocos Island, Eastern Pacific. 1991-1993. $5,000.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. DEB-9320397, Transfer of the AHF Decapod Crustacea Collection to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 1994-1996. $180,000.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. REU-9020088, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, a supplement to DEB-9020088. 1994. $5,000.
U.S. Department of Commerce, NATURENet (Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden Consortium Computer Network). $200,000. J. King (Carnegie Museum), primary PI; J. Martin responsible for LACM section ($53,000).
West Coast National Undersea Research Center, Feeding Behavior, Mode of Locomotion, and Functional Adaptations of Deep-Sea Brittlestars in the San Diego Trough. (with G. Hendler) 1995-1996. $51,613.
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), Atlas of Decapod Crustacea from the Santa Maria Basin. 1990-1995. $8,000 (Contract).
National Science Foundation, Grant No. DEB-96420397, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, a Supplement to DEB 93-20397. 1996-1997. $10,000.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. ESI-9552906, Support of Museum Research Apprentice Program. Acting PI only (not involved with writing proposal), June - August, 1996. $118,000.
Taylor Science Fund (Natural History Museum of L.A. County), Ecology and Natural History of the Land Crabs of the Revillagegedos Islands. August-September, 1996. $4,500.
NWO-SLW [Dutch National Science Organization, Foundation for Life Sciences], Workshop on Crustacean Biodiversity Databases, Amsterdam meetings of The Crustacean Society and the European Crustacean Society, Summer, 1998. $1,200.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. DEB-9727188, IPA Mobility Assignment. 1997-1998. $119,342.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. DEB-9972100, Marine Cryptofauna of Guana Island, BVI, a Pristine Caribbean Island. (with Todd Zimmerman). July 1999-June 2002. $183,374.
National Science Foundation, Grant No. DEB-9978193, PEET Program in Systematic Biology, Broad Training in Crustacean Systematics: Monographic Research in the Leptostraca, Conchostraca, and Brachyura (with D. Jacobs). September 1999-August 2004. $750,000.
Grants of Research Equipment and Support from: Dolphin Cylinders, DACOR, Performance Divers, SeaTec, Malibu Divers, Peet's Coffee and Teas (Santa Monica, California).
Outstanding Paper Award of The Crustacean Society, December meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Denver, Colorado, 1984.
Recipient of the Sigma Xi "James R. Fisher Award" for excellence in publication, 1985 (Florida State Chapter).
Best Paper Award, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, December meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Baltimore, Maryland, 1985.
Invited Member: Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society, USL branch
Invited Member: Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, FSU branch
President, The Crustacean Society, 1998 - 2000
Meritorious Service Recognition for 1995, Natural History Museum of L.A. County
PTA Honorary Service Committee Award Nominee, Brookside Elementary School, Agoura, California: "for contributions on behalf of youth in our school and community" 1999
Invited Contributor: Symposium on Crustacean Growth, Louisville, Kentucky, December, 1984.
Invited Contributor: Symposium on Functional Morphology of Crustacean Feeding/Grooming, Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1985.
Invited Contributor: Symposium on Decapod Crustacea (Morphology, Evolution, Biogeography) in honor of Fenner A. Chace, Jr., Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1985.
Invited Chairperson and Speaker: Zoological Society of London; Symposium on "Aspects of Decapod Crustacean Biology;" The London Zoological Gardens, April, 1987.
Invited Speaker: "Morphology and evolution of the Conchostraca (clam shrimp)," Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, December, 1987.
Invited Speaker: "Evolution of clam shrimp," Auburn University, Alabama, June, 1989.
Invited Speaker: "Evolution of the Conchostraca," University of California, Long Beach, September, 1989.
Invited Speaker: "Deep-sea fishes and decapod crustaceans," DSV Alvin Silver Jubilee Symposium, Woods Hole, October, 1989.
Invited Speaker: "Life at hydrothermal vents: An update," Univ. Southwestern Louisiana, October, 1989.
Invited Speaker: "Observations on decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps" International Congress on Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB IV), college Park, Maryland, July, 1990 (with A. B. Williams).
Invited Speaker: "Is the crustacean dorsal organ a plesiomorphic character of the class?" Symposium: The Crustacea, Origin and Evolution, Kristineberg Marine Biological Station, Sweden, September, 1990.
Invited Speaker: "The origin of the Crustacea," University of California, Riverside, February, 1991.
Invited Speaker: "Morphology and molecular phylogeny of branchiopod crustaceans," Smithsonian Institution, April, 1992.
Invited Speaker: "Morphological and molecular phylogeny of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea)," University of California Los Angeles, October, 1992.
Invited Speaker: "A scientist's perspective on using current and classical literature in the Hancock Library," Doheny Library, University of Southern California, December, 1992.
Invited Speaker: "Crustaceans from hydrothermal vents," Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, May, 1993.
Organizer and Chair: International Symposium: Biology of the Branchiopoda, Los Angeles, December, 1993.
Organizer / Convenor: First Workshop on Crustacean Biodiversity, Los Angeles, 1993.
Invited Speaker: "The Crustacean Biodiversity Survey: A potential model for posting biodiversity information on the World Wide Web." LACM seminar series, October 24, 1996
Invited Speaker: "Use of SEM in determining relationships among crustaceans," Southern California Society for Microscopy, Pasadena, California, November 20, 1996
Invited Speaker: "The Crustacea of marine hydrothermal vents," University of California Los Angeles, UCLA campus, January 14, 1997
Invited Speaker: "Decapod crustaceans from marine hydrothermal vents: An update through 1996," National Science Foundation, February 27, 1997.
"Biodiversity: An Old Science Learning New Tricks" Presentation to Dr. Neil Lane, Director of the National Science Foundation, on behalf of NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, December, 1997.
Invited Speaker and Workshop Organizer: "Crustacean Databases and the Web," Fourth International Congress on Crustacea, Amsterdam, July, 1998.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Society Board
Representative
(formerly American Society of Zoologists)
The Crustacean Society
Sigma Xi
Society of Systematic Biology
Provide Peer Review for the following Journals, Funding Agencies, and Books:
Acta Zoologica
American Zoologist
Archiv fur Hydrobiologie
Australian Marine Sciences and Technologies Advisory Committee
Australian Research Council
Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole)
Biology of the Crustacea (Academic Press)
Bulletin of Marine Science
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences, Proceedings and Occasional Papers
California Fish and Game
Connecticut Sea Grant Program
Contributions in Marine Science
Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Contributions to Zoology, Bijdragen Tot de Dierkund, University
of Amsterdam
Cordell Expeditions, Scientific Results
Crustacean Issues (Balkema Press)
Crustacean Research (Carcinological Society of Japan)
Crustacean Sexual Biology
Cousteau Society Dolphin Log
Florida Department of Natural Resources
Florida Sea Grant Program
Fourth International Crustacean Congress (ICC4)
Gulf Research Reports
Hydrobiologia (ILBS-3 Volume)
Journal of African Zoology
Journal of Biogeography
Journal of Crustacean Biology (formerly Associate Editor)
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United
Kingdom
Journal of Morphology
Journal of Natural History
Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science
Louisiana Sea Grant Program
Marine Biology
Memoirs of the San Diego Natural History Society
Micronesica
MUSORSTUM Expeditions, Scientific Results (Paris)
National Geographic Society
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Program
National Marine Fisheries Service
National Science Foundation: (* indicates additional Advisory
Panel Service)
Antarctic Biology and Medicine Program
Systematic Biology Program*
Biological Instrumentation Program
Biological Oceanography Program
Biological Research Collections Program*
Biological Research Resources Program
Biotic Surveys & Inventory Program*
Developmental Mechanisms Program
Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology Program
Population Biology Program
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research Program
Research Collections in Systematics & Ecology
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
Proceedings of the San Diego Natural History
Museum
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
Researches on Crustacea (Japan)
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Smithsonian Office of Fellowships and Grants
(Personnel Reviews)
Species Diversity (Japanese Soc. Syst. Zoology)
Symposia of the Zoological Society of London
Systematic Biology
Transactions of the American Microscopical Society
Transactions of the San Diego Natural History
Museum
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Zoologica Scripta (currently Associate Editor)
(1) Morphology, systematics and evolution of decapod and branchiopod Crustacea; especially the marine Brachyura and Caridea among the Decapoda, and the Conchostraca (spinicaudates and laevicaudates) among the freshwater Branchiopoda
(2) Larval morphology and its bearing on phylogeny in invertebrates; especially the use of spination and setation and its relationships to phylogeny vs. adaptation and ecological constraints in crab larvae
(3) Crustacean ecology and life history strategies especially as concerns hydrothermal vent biology, natural history of ephemeral ponds, and ontogeny
A. Courses Taught
University of Southwestern Louisiana
1978-1980 General Zoology (Laboratory); 4 semesters
1980-1981 Invertebrate Zoology (Laboratory); 2 semesters
1981 Invertebrate Zoology (Guest lecturer, 1 semester)
1981 Limnology (Guest lecturer, 1 semester)
Florida State University
1981-1984 Animal Diversity (Laboratory); 5 semesters
1982-1985 Designed, wrote and delivered a 12 lecture course on
"Diversity of Life on Earth", covering the origin and
fossil record of all major phyla; 4 semesters
1983 Field Collector, Comparative Physiology; 1 semester
1983 Organizer/Field Collector, Animal Diversity; 1 semester
1983 Invertebrate Zoology (Lab and part lecture); 1 yr.
1986 Evolution (Guest lecturer, 1 semester)
Auburn University
1989 Invertebrate Zoology, Guest Lecturer, "Origins of the
Metazoa"
University of Southern California
1988 Freshman Biology Colloquium, Guest Lecturer
1990 Biology of the Crustacea (section of Invertebrate Zoology,
BISC 471L), Guest Lecturer
1991 Advanced Invertebrate Zoology (guest lecturer), BISC 509L
1990 Crustacean Biology and Life at Hydrothermal Vents (component
of BISC 599, Graduate Seminar) 1992 Population Genetics and Evolution
(BISC 313/513)
1993 Population Genetics and Evolution (BISC 313/513)
1989-1994: Directed Research, BISC 599, and Doctoral Dissertation
Supervision, BISC 794
University of California, Los Angeles
1993 Primitive Crustaceans and their Phylogeny, Catalina Island
Marine Laboratory, October,1993 (part of Invertebrate Zoology
course)
1994 Speciation in the Sea and the role of Marine Invertebrate
Larvae (Graduate Seminar; co-organized with J. Morin, A. Cohen)
1995 Crustacean Phylogeny: The Branchiopoda (Seminar with J. Morin)
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Westlake Village, California
1991 Faith and Science (April - May, 1991)
1994 Science and Faith (April - May, 1994)
1995 2001: A Faith Odyssey; a workshop on molecular genetics and
questions of human ethics
1996 2001: A Faith Odyssey, Part 2. Workshop on the evolution
of AIDS / HIV and Society
1999 Personal interactions in Faith and Science: a workshop
B. University Service
Graduate Screening Examination Committee, University of Southern
California, 1992
Task Force on Undergraduate Curriculum in Biology, University
of Southern California,1994 - present
C. Current Graduate Students
Pedro Baez Retamales: "Comparative morphology and phylogeny of spiny lobsters." Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Carlos G. Jara: "Systematics and evolution of Chilean Aeglidae." Ph.D. (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
Todd L. Zimmerman: "Biogeography and larval spination in insular crabs." Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles). Dissertation defended Fall 1999.
Todd A. Haney: Dissertation title not yet determined. (University of California, Los Angeles). Fall 1998 present
Sandra Trautwein: Dissertation title not yet determined. (University of California, Los Angeles). Fall 1999 present
D. Previous Graduate Students
Ann Wurdeman: "Measuring the force imparted by the strike of the mantis shrimp Odontodactylus scyllarus (Stomatopoda, Odontodactylidae) with the piezo-electronic force transducer." MS, non-thesis (Univ. South. Calif.) Degree awarded 1991.
Todd Zimmerman: "Spination as a consequence of predation avoidance vs. phylogeny in brachyuran crab larvae." MS, non-thesis (Univ. South. Calif.) Degree awarded 1993.
Ngai-Chuen Law: "Molecular phylogeny of thalassinoid decapod crustaceans" Ph.D. (University of Southern California) (terminated, 1992).
E. Graduate Student Committee Service
Jose Levy: "Ecology of epibenthic crustaceans of hard-bottom communities of south Florida and the Caribbean as related to measurable habitat parameters." Ph.D. University of Miami, Florida. Advisor, K. Sullivan. 1992 - present.
Lisa Torres: "Molecular systematics of cypridinid ostracodes: Patterns and evolution of luminescent behavior." Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles. Advisor, J. G. Morin. 1994 - 1997.
Greg Nishiyama, title undetermined, Ph.D., University of Southern California. Advisor, J. Bakus. 1995- present.
1978 - East coast of Mexico, survey of the crustacean fauna
(USL Tropical Field Expedition III-B)
1979 - Invertebrate collector/consultant, Research Vessel "Oregon
II," northern Gulf of Mexico to 50 fathoms
1982 - Florida Keys, survey of the crustacean fauna of mangrove
root systems and freshwater sinkholes
1984 - Freshwater streams of Uruguay, survey of the Decapod Crustacea
(NSF-funded)
1988 - Freshwater Crustacea of the Edwards Plateau region of south
Texas (NSF-funded)
1988 - Decapod Crustacea survey of Pt. Conception, California
1991 - Ephemeral pond fauna of north Florida (NSF-funded)
1992 - Naturalist on board the M.S. Polaris; Great Barrier
Reef of Belize; Bay Islands of Honduras; reefs of Cozumel, Mexico
- Branchiopods of Amboy Crater, Mojave Desert (NSF-funded)
1993 - Branchiopods of the Mojave Desert and Santa Monica Mountains
1994 - Expedition Leader, National Geographic Society funded project,
Decapod Crustacea of Cocos Island, Costa Rica
- Survey of the Santa Monica Mountains Ephemeral Pond Crustacea
(NSF-funded)
1996 - Naturalist on Board M. S. Sea Lion, Sea of Cortez
and Copper Canyon, Mexico
- Branchiopods of the Mojave Desert (NSF-funded)
1999 - Marine invertebrates of Guana Island, BVI (NSF-funded)
(expedition co-leader)
Recent Professional Activities:
The Crustacean Society:
Chairperson, Awards Committee, 1989 - 1992
Nomenclature Committee, 1990 - present
President Elect, 1996 - 1997
President, 1998 1999
National Science Foundation: Advisory Panels, Review Activities,
Program Officer Service
Panel Service: Biotic Surveys and Inventories
Program: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999
Systematic Biology Program: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998
Biological Research Collections: 1998
Review Service: Biological Instrumentation, Biological Oceanography, Biological Research Resources, Biotic Surveys and Inventories, Developmental Mechanisms, Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Population Biology, Research Collections in Systematics and Ecology, Systematic Biology
Program Director: Systematic and Population Biology / Biotic Surveys and Inventories, 1997 1998
National and International Task Forces as NSF Representative:
International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG),
Fogarty Center, National Institutes of Health; Technical Advisory
Group Member
Voyage 2000 (World Wildlife / National Geographic Society)
IUBS (International Union of Biological Sciences), National Academy
of Sciences (invited member; later declined for conflict-of-interest
reasons)
IABIN (InterAmerican Biodiversity Information Network, US Fish
and Wildlife / Dept. of Interior)
CENR / SES (Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Subcommittee
on Ecological Systems, Task Force on Biological Diversity Assessment)
(joint with NASA, EPA, Dept. of Interior)
U. S. National Report, Convention on Biological Diversity
Working Group for Alternative Materials for NSF Proposals
Task force for establishing new NSF Regional Biodiversity Observatories
Program
Biodiversity and Conservation Activities:
Organizer and Compiler, Global Crustacean Biodiversity Survey,
1993 - present
IUCN (International Union of Conservation of Nature) Committee
Member, and
Sub-Director, Freshwater Invertebrate Group, 1994-present
American Association of Museums, MAP (Museum Assessment Program),
Surveyor, 1994-present
Recent Editorial Activities:
Associate Editor, Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1992
- 1997
Advisory Council, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Associate Editor, Zoologica Scripta, 1992 - 1999
Editor (with R. T. Bauer), Crustacean Sexual Biology. 1991.
Columbia University Press, New York.
Editor, The Crustacean Biodiversity Survey Home Page, a WWW product
(1993-ongoing)
Editor / compiler, Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea,
1996 - 1999
Museum Service Activities (all at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County):
Museum Committee Service
Institute for Museum Services Committee, 1989
Publications Committee, 1989-1991
Library Committee, 1989-1992, and 1995-present
Computer Committee, 1989-1995; continued as:
Computerization and Technology Infrastructure Committee, 1995-present
Molecular & Biochemical Systematics Laboratory Steering Committee,
1989-1995
Molecular Systematics Laboratory Committee, 1995-present
Museum / University Relations and Teaching Committee, 1993
Collections Access and Security Committee, 1993
Research and Collections Space Committee, 1995-1997
Search Committees for Curators and other positions:
Polychaete Curator, 1990
Anthropology Curator (Ethnography), 1990-1991
Anthropology Curator (Archaeology), 1990-1991
Entomology Curator, Search I, 1990-1991
Entomology Curator, Search II, 1991-1992
Computer Specialist, Search I, 1990
Computer Specialist, Search II, 1991
Laboratory Manager, Molecular and Biochemical Systematics Laboratory,
1991
Vice President for Research and Collections, 1995 (terminated
4/7/95)
Invertebrate Paleontology, 1999
Strategic Planning Subcommittees, Spring, 1995
Committee to Obtain More Grants
Committee to Increase and Enhance Partnerships
Promotion Committees
Invertebrate Zoology, 1995
History, 1995
Anthropology (Archaeology), 1998
Museum Education Programs
California State University at Long Beach, Young Scholars Program,
1991,1992,1993
MRAP (NSF-funded Museum Research Apprentice Program), 1992, 1993,
1996
SeaMobile Scientific Advisor, 1993 - present
Adventures in Nature (various advisory / teaching roles, 1988
- present)
Museum Exhibit Programs
SeaMobile (more to do with Education; see above)
Whale Exhibit, Taxonomic Consultant (species identifications),
1994
Crustacean Diversity Exhibit, submitted 1993 (no further action
taken)
Coral Reef Diversity Exhibit, submitted 1993 (no further action
taken)
Museum Treasures Exhibit, copy for select Crustacea submitted
1996
Museum Representation
MC for opening of "Smokey Bear - 50th Birthday" exhibit
and Award Ceremony for Southland Firefighters, June, 1994
Various talks given to Board of Trustees / Board of Governors / Alliance Board on behalf of research at LACM, 1992, 1993, 1994
Museum Travel Service escort: Belize, 1994; Sea of Cortez, 1996
Retirement speech honoring Dr. Dan M. Cohen, 31 July 1995
Membership tours, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996
Recent Consulting or Contract Work:
Dames & Moore (Seattle, Washington). Identification of decapod crustaceans from shoreline studies following the oil spill of the Exxon Valdiz, part 1.
Dames & Moore (Seattle, Washington). Identification of decapod crustaceans from shoreline studies following the oil spill of the Exxon Valdiz, part 2.
SAIC. Taxonomic Atlas of the Santa Maria Basin, California; Vol. 10, Decapod Crustacea.
California Fish and Game Department. Identification of freshwater branchiopod Crustacea. 1990, 1991, 1993.
SCAMIT (Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists) workshops; occasional talks and identification (unpaid).
Rohlff, Howie and Frischholz, Attorneys at Law. Expert witness in wrongful death suit, 1993-1994.
Certified (PADI) Scuba diver since 1972
Reading proficiency in French
Extensive community service (courses, science fair judging, informal
lectures at K through college levels, etc.)
1. Dr. Lawrence G. Abele
Provost, Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306 (904) 644-1081
2. Dr. Darryl L. Felder, Chairman
Department of Biology
University of Southwestern Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana 70504 (318) 231-6753
3. Dr. Daniel M. Cohen
Former Deputy Director, Research & Collections
(at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County)
Current address: P.O. Box 192, Bodega Bay, CA 94923
4. Dr. Bruce P. Hayden, Division Director
Division of Environmental Biology
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230 (703) 306-1480, ext. 6419
In Review:
Martin, J. W., and T. A. Haney. Cyamidae. In: J. T. Carlton (ed.), Light and Smith Manual, Fourth edition. University of California Press. Submitted September 29, 1999.
In Preparation (manuscripts in hand):
Abele, L. G., J. W. Martin, and T. Spears. Recent advances in crustacean morphological and molecular phylogeny. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, invited review.
Martin, J. W. and C. Sassaman. The nauplius stage of the branchiopod family Lynceidae and its bearing on the monophyly of the Conchostraca. Journal of Crustacean Biology.
Fryer, G. and J. W. Martin. Feeding in the laevicaudatan genus Lynceus.
Martin, J. W., C. L. Van Dover, and S. France. Cuticular ultrastructure and setae of swarming hydrothermal vent amphipods, with a review of cuticular ultrastructure in the Crustacea Peracarida.
Martin, J. W. and L. Garcia. Description of the male in the primitive conchostracan genus Limnadopsis. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
Martin, J. W., E. Vetter, and T. A. Haney. Leptostraca. In: J. T. Carlton (ed.), Light and Smith Manual, Fourth Edition.
Williams, A. B., F. A. Chace, Jr., A. L. Vereschchaka, and J. W. Martin. Clarification of the names of bresiliid shrimps from hydrothermal vents and cold seepage areas.
Abstracts and Notes:
Martin, J. W., and D. L. Felder. 1980. Morphology and ontogeny of juvenile stages of some common Gulf Coast xanthid crabs. American Zoologist 20: 621.
Martin, J. W. 1982. Phylogenetic groupings of the larvae of xanthid crabs with special reference to the western Atlantic. American Zoologist 22: 161.
Martin, J. W. 1984. Natural history and morphology of aeglid crabs (Decapoda, Anomura) from Uruguay. American Zoologist 24: 217.
Martin, J. W. 1985. Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Aegla. American Zoologist 25: 127.
Martin, J. W. 1986. Phylogenetic relationships within the Conchostraca (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). American Zoologist 26: 167.
Martin, J. W. 1987. Phylogenetic significance of the brachyuran megalopa: evidence from the Xanthidae. American Zoologist 27: 767.
Martin, J. W., and H. G. Kuck. 1990. Invertebrate associates of a new species of Schyphozoa found nearshore from southern California to Baja California in 1989. Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1990 Annual Meeting Program.
Williams, A. B., and J. W. Martin. 1990. Observations on decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps in the Atlantic and Pacific. International Congress on Systematics and Evolutionary Biology IV, Proceedings.
Martin, J. W., and H. G. Kuck. 1990. Invertebrate associates of a new species of Scyphozoa from Southern California and Baja California. American Zoologist 30(4): 87A.
Martin, J. W. 1991. Comment 3 under "Comments on the proposed conservation of the specific name of Artemia franciscana Kellogg, 1906 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) (Case 2728; BZN 47: 178-183; BZN 48: 57)." Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48(3), September, 1991: 247.
Martin, J. W. 1992. The syncarid dorsal organ and its similarity to the dorsal organ of larval decapods and branchiopods. The Crustacean Society, Summer Meeting Program, Charleston, SC.
Martin, J. W., and C. L. Van Dover. 1992. Morphology of a swarming amphipod from hydrothermal vents. The Crustacean Society, Summer Meeting Program, Charleston, SC.
Martin, J. W. 1993. Comments on the proposed designation of a replacement neotype for Gebia major capensis Krauss, 1843 (as part of a group response of the Nomenclature Committee of The Crustacean Society). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 50: 142-144.
Martin, J. W. 1993. Introduction to the Symposium: Review and morphology-based phylogeny of the branchiopod Crustacea. American Zoologist 33(5): 54A [216].
Martin, J. W., and C. Cash-Clark. 1993. Redescription and SEM morphology of the predatory onychopod "cladoceran" genus Bythotrephes. American Zoologist 33(5): 92A [366].
Zimmerman, T. L., and J. W. Martin. 1993. Inter- and intra-familial relationships of an anti-predatory defense mechanism. American Zoologist 33(5): 23A [93].
Pettit, G. A., C. E. Cash-Clark, and J. W. Martin. 1993. Description of a new species of caprellid amphipod from the Juan de Fuca hydrothermal vents. American Zoologist 33(5): 80A [324].
Kuck, H. G., and J. W. Martin. 1993. The decapod and stomatopod crustacean fauna of Isla del Coco, Pacific Costa Rica. American Zoologist 33(5): 79A [319].
Martin, J. W. 1993. New shrimp species from Lucky Strike. Mid-Atlantic Ridge Newsletter, December, 1993, p. 1.
Martin, J. W., and C. E. Cash-Clark. 1994. Bythotrephes revisited: SEM morphology and comments on cladoceran phylogeny. The Crustacean Society 1994 Summer Meeting and Abstracts, Maine.
Martin, J. W., D. L. Felder, and A. Dittel. 1994. Biogeographic significance of thalassinidean and brachyuran decapod assemblages on Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. The Crustacean Society 1994 Summer Meeting and Abstracts, Maine.
Martin, J. W. 1995. Morphology of a new species of Nebalia
(Leptostraca) from the west coast. The Crustacean Society 1995
Summer Meeting and Abstracts, Florida: p. 41.
Martin, J. W., and Williams, A. B. 1995. Decapod crustaceans from
hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: an update through 1994. The
Crustacean Society 1995 Summer Meeting and Abstracts, Florida:
p. 23.
Olesen, J., J. W. Martin, and E. Roessler. 1996. External morphology of the male of Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird, 1859) (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata), and the phylogenetic significance of Cyclestheria. Pp. 29, The Crustacean Society 1996 Summer Meeting and Abstracts, San Diego, California.
Martin, J. W. 1996. The Crustacean Biodiversity Survey. Pp. 28, The Crustacean Society 1996 Summer Meeting and Abstracts, San Diego, California.
Pereyra, R., C. A. Sanchez, and J. W. Martin. 1996. Notas en la distribucion de dos cangrejos litodidos (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) en la costa de Baja California Sur, Mexico. XI Simposium Internacional de Biologia Marina, La Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Mexico, November 18-22, 1996.
Cadien, D. B., and J. W. Martin. 1997. A strange new genus and species of commensal atylopsine amphipod associated with king crabs (Paralithodes) off the coast of southern California. The Crustacean Society 1997 Summer Meeting and Abstracts, Mobile, Alabama.
Geiger, D. L., and J. W. Martin. 1997. Symbiotic pea crabs (Decapoda: Pinnotheridae) in Abalone. Abalone Meetings, annual meeting abstracts, Monterey, California.
Geiger, D. L., and J. W. Martin. 1998. A new commensal pea crab (Decapoda: Brachyura) in abalone (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). American Zoologist 131A [466].
Martin, J. W., and G. E. Davis. 1999. On an updated classification of the Crustacea. The Crustacean Society 1999 Summer Meeting and Abstracts, Lafayette, Louisiana.
Geiger, D. L., and J. W. Martin. 1999. The pea crab Orthotheres haliotidis Geiger & Martin, 1999 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) in the Australian abalone Haliotis aisinina Linnaeus, 1758, and H. squamata Reeve, 1846 (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae). Published abstracts of the . . .
Martin, J. W. 1999. David K. Camp named as Editor of the Journal of Crustacean Biology. Journal of Crustacean Biology 19(3): 669-670.
1990. "Seasons in the Sea," Nature. National Geographic Video Presentation, in collaboration with Nature and Thirteen/WNET and Howard Hall Productions, Inc. Episode that aired 29 September 1990; now available through National Geographic video services. VHS ISBN 0-7922-1958-9.
1993. Los Angeles Daily News, Monday, November 1, 1993, LA Life section. "Where scientists discover which came first" by Lori Moody. Article about the LACM Molecular Systematics Laboratory and its design and development.
1994. Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, August 16, 1994, Metro section. "Bones of Contention" by Carla Rivera. Article discussing LACM collections, their role, and the L. A. County's assessment of them.
1994. Scuba Times (popular dive magazine), August, 1994, p. 52. "The Elusive Gaudy Clown Crab" by Georgienne Bradley.
1995. Calypso Log, April, 1995. "Returning to Cocos" by G. E. Bradley and J. Ireland, pp. 5-7.
1996. Science, Vol. 278: 2058, December 19. "Counting Creatures of the Serengeti, Great and Small." Article by Virginia Morell.
1999. Orange County Register, Saturday, July 17, 1999. "Unusual Jellyfish are Back," by Gary Robbins. Article discussing reappearance of Chrysaora achlyos off southern California.
1999. Los Angeles Times, Thursday, July 22, 1999. Science File, page B2. "Giant Jellyfish Reappear in Waters Off San Diego" by Liz Thompson. Article discussing reappearance of Chrysaora achlyos off southern California.
1999. Kyodo News Service, Japan. Seana Magee (interview, July 21, 1999; published 7/24/99 in KYODO NEWS, Tokyo [in Japanese]
1999. KFWB Radio Station, Los Angeles, interview on July 23, 1999, for "Adventures in Time" radio spot, which aired 4 times on Saturday, July 31.
1999. CNN (Cable News Network), Linda Armel (interview, July 22, 1999)
1999. Time Magazine, Lena Lefar (interview, July 23, 1999)
1999. Dewey Graham, Boy's Life Magazine (interview, August 10, 1999)
Carcinological Illustrations of J. Martin have appeared as original figures or have been reprinted in the following additional research publications and books:
Abele, L. G. and B. E. Felgenhauer. 1985. Observations on the ecology and feeding behavior of the anchialine shrimp Procaris ascensionis. Journal of Crustacean Biology 5(1): 15-24. [Figs. 2, 4, 5]
Felgenhauer, B. E., and L. G. Abele. 1985. Feeding structures of two atyid shrimps, with comments on caridean phylogeny. Journal of Crustacean Biology 5(3): 397-419. [Fig. 5]
Garth, J. S. and T. M Iliffe. 1992. Guitonia troglophila, a new genus and species of anchialine crab from the Galapagos, Isla Santa Cruz, Grieta de Caleta La Torta (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105(2): 310-316. [Fig. 1]
Garth, J. S. 1992. Some deep-water Parthenopidae (Crustacea, Brachyura) from French Polynesia and nearby eastern Pacific ridges and seamounts. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4e ser., 14: 781-795. [Figs. 3, 4]
Brusca, R. C. and G. J. Brusca. 1991. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts.
Pennak, R. W. 1989. Fresh-water Invertebrates of the United States, 3rd edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
Walossek, D. 1993. The Upper Cambrian Rehbachiella and the phylogeny of Branchiopoda and Crustacea. Fossils and Strata 32: 1-202.
Ruppert, E. E. and R. D. Barnes, 1994. Invertebrate Zoology, sixth edition. Saunders College Publishing. [Figs. 14-74Am 14-74D, 14-75E].
Guinot, D. 1995. Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura: Revision de la famille des Homolodromiidae Alcock, 1900. Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTUM. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, vol. 13, ed. A. Crosnier, 163: 155-282.
Goettle, B. J. 1997. A "living fossil" in the San Francisco Bay area. Tidelines (U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service 17 (1): 1-3.
Goettle, B. J. 1997. The life and times of the vernal pool tadpole shrimp. San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society, informational pamphlet.