W. Eugene Hall
WORK ADDRESS
Collection Manager: Zoology Section
CU Museum of Natural
History
UCB 265
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: (303) 735-5262
E-mail: Eugene.Hall@colorado.edu
EDUCATION
1998: MS in Entomology. Dr. David
Maddison Lab, Department of Entomology,
University of Arizona, Tucson.
1995: BFA in
Studio Art: Painting,
Department of Art, University of
Arizona, Tucson.
PRINCIPAL AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL
INTEREST
Management of
Natural History Collections/Curatorial techniques.
Evolutionary
relationships of Coleoptera.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Systematics, phylogenetics and
biogeography of Ptiliidae
(Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea).
Phylogenetics
of Sphaeriusidae and Hydroscaphidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga).
Morphological survey/literature review of the Coleoptera pterothorax.
Review of Desert Coleoptera.
Fossil insects from fossil packrat middens and amber.
PRINCIPAL AREAS
OF PERSONAL INTEREST
Art
(painting, illustration); Hiking, being outdoors, road trips; Collecting music;
Fly tying and fly fishing; Reading (natural history, poetry, art history;
non-fiction); Environmental issues.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Collections
Manager: Invertebrate Zoology (2001-present), Invertebrate
Paleontology (2001-2003), Vertebrate Zoology (2003-present) CU
Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder (2001- present).
Collections Manager: Division
of Entomology, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE (1998-
2001).
Fossil Packrat Middens Research. Assistant
Researcher to Dr. Thomas R. Van Devender, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson (1983-1995).
Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum. Arthropod Keeper (1984-1985).
PRE-PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Arizona Insect Collection. Assist in Curatorial Duties (1984-1998).
University of Arizona Insect Identification Clinic. Assistant (1990-1998).
University of Arizona Invertebrate
Zoology Collection. Curation (Fall 1991).
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Volunteer: Invertebrates (Summer 1983).
University of Arizona Herpetology
Collection. Lab, fieldwork (Fall 1980- Fall 1982).
University of Arizona Ichthyology Collection. Curation, lab work (Fall 1980).
University of Arizona Paleoenvironmental Laboratory. Curation, lab and fieldwork related to fossil pack rat midden research (Summer 1979-Summer 1985).
TEACHING/OUTREACH
Munching Melanoplus Program. Summer course for secondary/high school teachers using
insects as educational tools. 1993–1995. University of Arizona, Tucson.
Career Day at
Reid Park Zoo. Annual
event using outreach to interest the public in science as a career. 1994–1996. Tucson, AZ.
Jewels of the
Night. Assistant
to Carl Olson, instructor. Night time summer event,
presenting arthropod diversity in the southwest (Santa Rita Mountains, AZ). 1993-1996.
Ptiliidae
web page coordinator on the Tree
of Life. A multi-authored,
distributed internet project containing information about phylogeny and
biodiversity. 1996 – present.
http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/hexapoda/coleoptera/polyphaga/staphylinoidea/ptiliidae/ptiliidae.html
Insect Systematics (Course lab assistant), Fall 1997. University of Arizona, Tucson.
Outside
Examiner for Honors Student, 1999. Knox College, Galesburg, Il.
Insect
Diversity (Coleoptera lab), December 2001. University of Colorado, Boulder.
Ask the Expert (Zoology
Section). 2002, 2003. CU Museum of
Natural History, Open House Celebrating Museum’s Centennial. University of Colorado, Boulder.
Collections
Management and Conservation (guest lecturer), June 2002. ‘Introduction to Museum Studies’ course, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Curatorial
Techniques of Zoology Collections. Co-instructor. Fall 2002.
University of Colorado, Boulder.
GRANTS/AWARDS
Collection Improvement
Grant (2002), (denied due to lack of funding), Invertebrate
Paleontology. National Science Foundation. Dena Smith (PI) and W. Eugene Hall (CO-PI).
Visiting
Scholar Grant (1996, 1999, 2000), Division of Insects, Field Museum of Natural History.
Ernst Mayr Grant (1997), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Putney Fund (1998, 1999,
2000), University of Nebraska State Museum.
Research Training Grant (1996), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Arizona.
'Outstanding Paper of the Year' award, Coleopterists Society (1995) for the
1994 Coleopterists Bulletin paper by T. R. Van Devender and W. E. Hall.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Entomological Society of America
Coleopterists Society
Windstar Foundation (Environmental Scholarship
Committee)
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER
Annals of the Entomological Society of America,
Coleopterists Bulletin, Pan Pacific Entomologist
SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS
Featherwing Beetles (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)
Associated with Ants and Termites. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, December 2000, Montreal, Canada.
Featherwing Beetles (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae):
Systematics, Morphology and Biology. Entomological Society of
America Annual Meeting, December 1999, Atlanta, Georgia.
A Revision of the Tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera:
Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Review of North American Featherwing Beetles
(Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) and Revision of the Tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera:
Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Masters Degree Defense, May 1998, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
PUBLICATIONS
Hall, W.E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1988. Late Quaternary Arthropod Remains from Sonoran Desert Packrat Middens, Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Sonora. Quaternary Research. 29: 277-293.
Hall, W.E., C.A. Olson and T.R. Van Devender. 1989. Late Quaternary and Modern
Arthropods from the Ajo Mountains of Southwestern Arizona. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 65(3):
322-347.
Hall, W.E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1990. Arthropod history of the Puerto Blanco Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southwestern Arizona. In "Fossil Packrat Middens: The last 40,000 years of Biotic Change
in the Arid West" (P.S. Martin, T.R. Van Devender, J.L. Betancourt, Eds.).
Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Van Devender, T.R., A.M. Rea and
W.E. Hall. 1991. Faunal Analysis of Late Quaternary
Vertebrates from Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument, Southwestern
Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist. 36(1):
94-106.
Olson, C.A. and W.E. Hall. 1992. Cockroaches
of Arizona. Cooperative Extension Bulletin, No. 191059, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona.
Van Devender, T.R. and W.E. Hall. 1993. Fossil
Arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Sonora, Mexico. Ecologica. 3(1): 1-12.
Van Devender, T.R. and W.E.
Hall. 1994. Holocene Arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Mexico, with
Emphasis on Beetles (Coleoptera). Coleopterists Bulletin, 48(1): 30-50.
Hall, W. E. 1999. Generic Revision
of the Tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transactions of
the American Entomological Society 125 (1- 2): 39 - 126.
Hall, W E. 1999. Swimming Through the Air: Size Does Matter. Museum Notes, University Of Nebraska State Museum, No. 104.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Ptiliidae
Erichson, 1845, pp. 233-246. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1.
Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Microsporidae
Crotch, 1873, pp. 24-26. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American
Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga,
Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443
pp.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Hydroscaphidae
LeConte, 1874, pp. 27-29. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1.
Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Mico, E., W. E. Hall and B. C.
Ratcliffe. 2001. Descriptions of the Larvae of Hoplopyga singularis(Gory
and Percheron) and Hologymnetis cinerea(Gory and Percheron) with a
Revised Key to the Larvae of the New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Cetoniinae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 55 (2): 205-217.
Hall, W. E. 2001. (book review). Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly. Great Plains Research, Vol. 11, No. 1:
204-206.
Hall, W.E. 2003. Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera). pp. 37-41. In: Water Beetles of China, Volume 3. Wien: Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Österreich and
Wiener Coleopterologenverein.
Hall, W. E. 2003 Limulopteryx, a new genus of
neotropical featherwing beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea: Ptiliidae) and
comments on pterycine ptiliids. Pp. 85-102. -In: G. Cuccodoro and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Systematics of Coleoptera: Papers
Celebrating the Retirement of Ivan Lőbl. Memoirs on
Entomology, Volume 17. International Associated Publishers, Florida.
SUBMITTED:
Hall, W. E. (submitted). Ptiliidae. In:
Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the Phyla of the
Animal Kingdom.
IN
PREP:
Hall, W. E. (in prep) A New Species of Nanoselline Ptiliid (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from New Zealand.
Hall, W. E. (in prep). A new
species of myrmecophile ptiliid (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from North America with comments on
Cephaloplectinae.
Hall, W. E. and Spangler, P. J. (in prep). A new species of
limnichid beetle from Malaysia
(Coleoptera: Limnichidae: Cephalobyrrhinae).
Van Devender, T. R., Hall, W. E.,
Wiens, J. F. and Olson, C. A. (in prep). Notes on
seed beetles (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) in the northeastern Sonoran desert,
southern Arizona.
ILLUSTRATIONS (for other authors)
McNamee, G. 1994. Gila: The Life and
Death of an American River. Crown Publishers.
Smith, R. L and W.B. Thomas. 1988. Southwestern distribution and habitat ecology of Gryllodes
supplicans. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, Winter 1988.
Werner, F.G. and D. S. Chandler. 1995. Anthicidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Fauna of New Zealand, No. 34. (W.E. Hall illustrator, Figures 6-10).
Werner, F.G. and C.A. Olson. 1994. Learning About and Living with Insects of the Southwest (W.E. Hall,
illustrator). Fisher Books, Tucson, Arizona, 162pp.