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I am an Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. I graduated with Honors in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in May 2008.

My primary interest in contributing to the Citizendium is in the field of animal behavior; however, I've contributed to articles on Wikipedia in other areas of biology, chemistry, and physics, and expect to do so here as well. I am also interested in scientific classification. My organisms of choice generally belong to the class Insecta. As for nonscientific interests, anime, manga, and other aspects of Japanese popular culture are a hobby of mine. I am also an avid reader of both fiction and non fiction.

Current Projects

Biology Workweek Mock-ups

Main page

Here's the .svg, if anyone wants to work on it. I think the rest of the pencil needs shading, and maybe the amoeba needs to pop more.


Hi! I'm an amoeba and I write Citizendium articles. So can you!
The Biology Workgroup Week is on!
Join us this week, September 22-28

You're invited to work on high priority articles, or simply start a new one!
It's a Workgroup Week. If an amoeba can participate, so can you!

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Workgroup Page

If someone wants to format this better, that would be great. Also, the banner design is still a work in progress. Suggestions are very welcome. Marielle Fields Newsome 11:36, 8 June 2008 (CDT)

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Taxonomy

Making entries for all the taxonomic divisions order and up in Hexapoda.

Insect classification, like much of taxonomy, has been going through rather dramatic changes recently. The most complete source for up-to-date classification seems to be ITIS. As such, I've decided that the site will be my final authority on taxonomy. I notice that Wikipedia uses more recent material in their classification, but I'm hesitant to do that, mostly because taxonomy is often interdependent, and one paper does not a new order make. Marielle Fields Newsome 16:59, 4 June 2008 (CDT)

Completed

Where completed means there's a good skeleton for a fully fleshed out article in place.

Arthropoda Hexapoda Dicondylia Entognatha Protera Diplura Collembola Zygentoma Archaeognatha Ephemeroptera Pterygota Coleoptera Odonata Palaeoptera Neoptera Neuropterida Megaloptera Raphidioptera

To Do

Dermaptera Dictyoptera Diptera Embiidina Hagen, 1862 Grylloblattodea Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 Hymenoptera Isoptera Brullé, 1832 Lepidoptera Mantophasmatodea Zompro, Klass, Kristensen and Adis, 2002 Mecoptera Orthoptera Phasmatodea Jacobson and Bianchi, 1902 Phthiraptera Haeckel, 1896 Plecoptera Psocoptera Siphonaptera Strepsiptera Kirby, 1813 Thysanoptera Haliday, 1836 Trichoptera Zoraptera Silvestri, 1913

Neuroptera

Website

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Be gentle. I just started learning html.