Ken Hayes is the Director of the Pacific Center for Molecular Biodiversity (PCMB) at Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and a Research Collaborator at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Ken did his Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii Manoa, followed by postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to joining the Bishop Museum, he was an Assistant Professor of invertebrate evolutionary biology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. While his research is global in scope, the bulk of his work is carried out in Hawaii and South America, primarily involving aquatic and terrestrial snails. His research foci span the topics of invasion biology, evolution on tropical islands, biodiversity conservation, and evolutionary and ecological genomics. His taxonomic expertise is in Hawaiian land snails and apple snails, which includes the notorious invasive pests Pomacea canaliculata and Pomacea maculata.
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Norine Yeung is the Malacology Researcher at the Bishop Museum and is interested in understanding patterns of tropical diversity, focused on phylogeography, systematics and conservation. She is using historic and recently collected museum specimens to assess the systematics of native and non-native Hawaiian land snails. Prior to her current research in malacology, Nori received her PhD at the University of Hawaii studying the systematics, population genetic structure, and feeding ecology (using stable isotopes) of a pantropical seabird, Gygis alba. She also holds affiliate positions at the University of Hawaii and National Museum of Natural History.
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