PERSONNEL AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
From left to right: Robert H. Cowie, Rebecca J. Rundell (front), Falaniko Mika (back), and Pasia Setu; on the summit of Olosega, February 2001. |
A number of University of Hawaii graduate students have participated in the project at the Bishop Museum: Paul Armstrong, David Britton, Richard Pyle and Rebecca Rundell.
This website and the associated Searchable Database and online Identification Guide were developed by Richard Pyle.
From left to right: Robert H. Cowie, Rebecca J. Rundell, Pasia Setu, Fred Brooks, and Falaniko Mika; at the Ofu Airport. |
From left to right: Don Vargo, Falaniko Mika, Rebecca J. Rundell, Pasia Setu and Robert H. Cowie; members of the Olosega Snail Hunt. |
Assistance with identification of specimens has been provided by Fred Naggs, David Robinson, and José Willibaldo Thomé. Loan of type material and other specimens used to assist with identifications has been facilitated by Bob Hershler, Cheryl Bright, and Paul Greenhall (National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), Washington), Philippe Bouchet and Virginie Héros (Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris), Trudi Meier (Zoologisches Museum der Universität Zürich), and Edmund Jarzembowsky (Maidstone Museum). John Slapcinsky assisted with information from the collections in the Field Museum, Chicago.
From left to right: Pasia Setu, Fred Brooks, Robert H. Cowie, Rebecca J. Rundell, and Falaniko Mika; on the beach. |
The Samoan Snail Project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DEB 9705494. Additional funding has come from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Parks Service, the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division, and the Bishop Museum. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF) or any other funding source.