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Download Pdf Version Eli M. Sarnat, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lab Phone: 217-244-6631 Department of Entomology Lab Fax: 217-244-4565 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue Home Phone: 530-601-1465 Urbana, IL 61801 USA Email: [email protected] Skype: ndemik Citizenship: USA Web: http://elisarnat.com Positions 2013 – present Research Associate, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Co-PI on USDA grant to continue development of Antkey: a digital tool for the identification and scientific research of the world’s invasive, introduced and commonly intercepted ant species. Dr. Andrew Suarez is co-PI. Project website | http//:www.antkey.org. 2013 – present Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA Curating Antweb.org projects, including Introduced Ants, Port of Entry Ants, Ants of Fiji, Ants of the Solomon Islands. Also working with Dr. Brian Fisher on Ants of Asia: A Guide to the Genera for UC Press. 2010 – 2012 Research Associate, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Encyclopedia of Life (EOL.org) Rubenstein Fellow. Co-PI on USDA grant to develop and deploy Antkey.org. Dr. Andrew Suarez is co-PI. Education University of California at Davis (Davis, CA) Ph.D., Entomology, June 2009 (NSF Graduate Research Fellow). Thesis: “The Ants of Fiji: systematics, biogeography and conservation of an island arc fauna.” Major Advisor: Dr. Phil S. Ward. M.S., Entomology, June 2003. University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) B.S., Conservation and Resource Studies, Entomology emphasis, May 2000. Additional Training USDA-CPHST Workshop, Ft. Collins, Colorado. Developing Lucid identification tools (Sept., 2008). California Academy of Sciences Ant Course at Portal, Arizona (July, 2003). Duke University, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica. (Spring semester, 2003). Publications Monographs Sarnat EM & EP Economo (2012) The ants of Fiji. University of California Press Publication in Entomology 132: iii-viii; 1-384. [pdf] Research Publications Economo EP, K Pavel, EM Sarnat, B Guenard, M Weiser, B Lecroq & LL Knowles. Global phylogenetic structure of a hyperdiverse radiation reveals the convergent evolution of macroecological patterns. Proc. R. Soc. B. (In Press). Sarnat EM, Rabeling C, Economo EP, Wilson EO. First record of a species from the New World Pheidole flavens-complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) introduced to the southwestern Pacific. Bioinvasions Records, 3: 301-307. [pdf] Clouse RM, M Janda, B Blanchard, P Sharma, BD Hoffman, AN Anderson, JE Czekanski-Moir, P Krushelnycky, C Rabeling, EP Economo, EM Sarnat, CW Ward. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of a widespread ant group reveals waves of dispersal and colonization into and out of the Pacific. Cladistics (Online Early). [pdf] Sarnat EM, Economo EP (2013) Pristomyrmex tsujii sp. n. and P. mandibularis Mann (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Fiji. ZooKeys 340: 43-61. [pdf] Sarnat EM, Blanchard, B Guénard, JB Fasi, & EP Economo. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. Zookeys, 257: 47-88. [pdf] Sarnat EM & AV Suarez (2012) Antkey. University of Illinois and Identification Technology Program, CPHST, PPQ, APHIS, USDA. <http://www.antkey.org> Economo, EP & EM Sarnat (2012) Revisiting the ants of Melanesia and the taxon cycle: historical and human- mediated invasions of a tropical archipelago. American Naturalist, 180, E1-E16. (Presidential award from ASN for best paper of 2012 in Am. Nat.) [pdf] Sarnat EM (2011) Ant identification in cyberspace: tools, applications and challenges. American Entomologist, 57, 227-230. [pdf] Lucky A, EM Sarnat & LE Alonso (2011) Survey of the ants of the Muller Range of Papua New Guinea. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 60: 45-53. Lucky A, K Sagata & EM Sarnat (2011) Survey of the ants of the Nakanai Mountains of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 60: 158-157. Sarnat EM & CS Moreau (2011) Biogeography and morphological evolution of a Pacific island ant radiation. Molecular Ecology 20:114-130. [pdf] Lucky A & EM Sarnat (2010) Biogeography and diversification of the Pacific ant genus Lordomyrma Emery. Journal of Biogeography 37: 624-634. [pdf] Sarnat EM (Dec. 4th, 2008) PIAkey: Identification guide to invasive ants of the Pacific Islands, Edition 2.0, Lucid v. 3.4. USDA/APHIS/PPQ Center for Plant Health Science and Technology and University of California — Davis. [http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/ant/pia/] Sarnat EM (2008) A taxonomic revision of the Pheidole roosevelti-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Fiji. Zootaxa 1767:1-36. [pdf] Sarnat EM (2008) Fire ant workshop and surveillance final technical report. Wildlife Conservation Society, Suva, Fiji. 33 p. plus appendices. [pdf] Lucky A & EM Sarnat (2007) New species of Lordomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Southeast Asia and Fiji. Zootaxa 1681: 37-46. [pdf] Evenhuis NL, EM Sarnat, M Tokota`a (2007) A new genus and species of sciarid ant guest from Fiji (c). In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods. IX. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 94: 3-10. Sarnat EM (2006) Lordomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Fiji Islands. In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods. IX.Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 90: 9-42. [pdf] Sarr D, D Odion, B Truitt, E Beever, S Shafer, A Duff, S Smith, W Bunn, J Rocchio, E Sarnat, J Alexander & S Jessup (2004) Vital Signs Monitoring Plan for the Klamath Network: Phase I Report. Klamath Network- National Park Service, Ashland, OR. 96 p. plus appendices. Suarez AV, M Benard, ND Tsutsui, TA Blackledge, K Copren, EM Sarnat, AL Wild, WM Getz, PT Starks, K Will, PJ Palsbøll, ME Hauber, C Moritz & AD Richman (2002) Correspondence: Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops. Nature 417:897. Manuscripts submitted Hita Garcia F, EM Sarnat, EP Economo. Proceratium vinaka: a new species of Proceratium Roger (Hymenoptera, Proceratiinae) from Fiji. Submitted. Economo, EP, M Janda & EM Sarnat. The island biogeography of native and exotic ant diversity reveals biotic resistance at large but not small spatial scales. Submitted. Grants, fellowships & awards Grants & external funding 2014 Kadoorie Farm & Botanical Garden (Hong Kong) | Improving content and language translation of Antkey.org website with respect to invasive ants in Asia | $17,000 2013 USDA-APHIS-MRPBS Cooperative Agreement (CA) | Development of the Antkey.org website. Co-PI with Dr. Andrew Suarez, my role is to design the website and develop all scientific content and illustrations for a Lucid identification key, morphological glossary and species pages for over 100 invasive, introduced and commonly intercepted ants | $97,900 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) DEB 1141989 | “Evolving hyperdiversity in phenotypic, ecological, and geographic networks: testing the taxon cycle and alternatives in Indo-Pacific Pheidole” Senior personnel with Dr. Evan Economo and Dr. Lacey Knowles, I am responsible for acquisition, curation, identification and classification of hundreds of Pheidole species, specimen database design and management, hypothesis testing and manuscript preparation | $378,522 2010 USDA-APHIS-MRPBS Cooperative Agreement | Development of Antkey.org website. Co-PI with Dr. Andrew Suarez | $59,180 2007 USDA-APHIS-MRPBS Cooperative Agreement | Development of Identification guide to invasive ants of the Pacific Islands website (www.PIAkey.com) | $21,997 2007 Biosecurity New Zealand Research Grant | $5,000 2007 UC Davis Jastro Shields Research Award | $450 2006 UC Davis Jastro Shields Research Award | $1,250 2005 Pacific Rim Research Program Minigrant | $3,000 2005 Ernst Mayr Grant, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University | $2,000 2008 UC Davis Graduate Studies NSF GRF matching grant | $25,000) 2003 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship | $75,000 2002 UC Davis McBeth Memorial Scholarship | $1,200 2002 UC Davis Center for Biosystematics Graduate Research Grant | $1,000 2002 UC Davis Jastro Shields Research Award | $2,000 2002 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable mention. 1999 Organization for Tropical Studies, Conservation Biology Fund | $1,000 1999 UC Berkeley Educational Minigrant | $2,500 Fellowships 2011 Encyclopedia of Life Rubenstein Fellowship | One year of funding to support cybertaxonomy work on Antkey.org, Antweb.org and EOL.org 2003 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship | Three years of funding for dissertation work on “The Ants of Fiji: systematics, biogeography and conservation of an island arc fauna.” Awards 2012 2012 Presidential Award from American Society of Naturalists (Best paper published in The American Naturalist in 2012) 2002 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable mention Scientific meetings Sarnat, EM & EP Economo (2014) The ants of Fiji: systematics, biogeography & ecology of an island arc fauna, International Union for the Study of Social Insects International Congress, Cairns, Australia. (Oral Paper, co-organized Island biology of social insects symposium). Sarnat, EM & EP Economo (2014) Antkey: an online identification guide to invasive, introduced and commonly intercepted ants, International Union for the Study of Social Insects International Congress, Cairns, Australia (Poster). Sarnat, EM (2013) Web-based approaches for the identification of invasive ant species. 2nd International Congress on Biological Invasions, Qingdao, China. (Oral Paper, co-organized Can we keep RIFA out of Asia? symposium). Sarnat, EM (2012) Web-based resources
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