Dr Kathy Slater

Dr Kathy Slater is a primate researcher based in Mexico and has previously been a lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences and Psychology at John Moores University, Liverpool. Dr Slater runs the Op Wall primate research programme in Honduras. Her main research interests are in Spider Monkeys and Howler Monkeys.

Dr C. B Wood, Providence College

Dr Wood is Professor of Natural Science in the Biology Department at Providence College. Dr Wood heads up the mammal research teams in the Cusuco National Park, in Honduras. His main research areas of interest are the origin, definition and evolution of early mammals; functional anatomy of tribosphenic molar teeth in mammals; and distribution of Mesozoic vertebrates (dinosaurs, mammals, etc.) in Africa, Asia, and North America.

Dr Kym Snarr, University of Toronto

Dr Snarr is the Director for Conservation and Research at the Center for Environment at Toronto University. Dr Snarr helped establish the large mammal monitoring project in the Cusuco National park in Honduras. Her current work involves large mammal monitoring and the impacts of anthropogenic factors with general interests that revolve around the interface of human, nonhuman primate and tropical forests. Her research interests include biological corridors, ecology of Howler Monkeys and changing forest composition due to anthropogenic and global climatic change.

Dr Adrian Seymour

Dr Seymour is an independent research ecologist with over 10 yrs professional experience around the world, including Spain, Italy, Indonesia, and Mauritius. Dr Seymour led the biodiversity science teams in the Lambusango forests for a number of years and is still involved In supervision of the civet ecology project. His research has focussed on wildlife behaviour and population dynamics as well as wildlife/habitat conservation. More recently he has diversified into film-making as a tool for promoting positive attitudes towards conservation in developing countries.

Dr Nancy Priston, Oxford Brookes University

Dr Nancy Priston is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University and lectures on the Masters course in primatology. Dr Priston completed her PhD at the Op Wall field sites and has continued her research there and directs the Buton Macaque studies as part of the Op Wall Lambusango forest research programme. She is now continuing her research on human-wildlife conflict to develop spatial models of crop-raiding, and investigate issues of risk perception, conflict development and coping strategies.

Dr Anne Zeller, University of Waterloo

Dr Zeller is a is a physical anthropologist who specializes in the study of primates and is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr Zeller was a Visiting Academic to the Op Wall Indonesian forest site in 2007 and completed some filming of the Buton macaques to produce an video illustrating behaviour types in macaques. Over the last decade, Dr. Zeller has made a number of videos on primate behaviour from material she recorded on free-ranging prosimians, monkeys and apes in Africa and Indonesia, as well as research sites in North America and Europe.

Dr Steve Rossiter, Queen Mary, University of London

Dr Rossiter is a Royal Society Research fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London. Dr Rossiter supervises the long term bat community monitoring project in the Lambusango forest, Indonesia. His research interests include a long-term study the mating and social behaviour in greater horseshoe bats, a comparative investigation of the impact of social organisation on gene flow in continuous bat populations, and the function of hearing genes in the evolution of echolocation, and their role in bat speciation. To address these and similar questions, he uses both molecular approaches (microsatellite genotyping and sequencing) and ecological methods (radio tracking, mark-recapture, echolocation recording)

Dr Tigga Kingston, Texas Tech University

Dr Kingston is Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at texas Tech University. Dr Kingston originally established the bat research programme in the Lambusango forests. Her research centres on the study of chiropteran diversity and the processes that create it (speciation), maintain it in intact ecosystems (community ecology), and preserve it in the face of human disturbance (conservation biology). Her work focuses primarily on the insectivorous bats of South East Asia; a species-rich group that occurs as highly diverse assemblages in the threatened rainforests of the region. Indeed, by the end of this century, it is estimated that more than a fifth of South East Asian bats will be globally extinct.

Dr Ruth Cox, Liverpool University

Dr Cox is a Post Doctoral Research Assistant in the Epidemiology Group in the Department of Veterinary Sciences at Liverpool University. Dr Cox has helped organise and run vertebrate surveys for Op Wall in the cloud forest of Cusuco and Kruger National park in South Africa. Her research investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of outbreaks of certain salmonella serotypes in all species in the UK.

Dr Mark Bowler, Kent University

Dr Bowler is an Honorary Research Associate at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent. Dr Bowler established the promate research programme at the Lago Preto site in Peru. His research interests are in the behaviour and ecology of Pitheciine primates especially the red uakari monkey (Cacajao calvus) and in primate conservation in the Peruvian Amazon, including community based conservation.

Dr Graham Forbes, University of New Brunswick

Dr Forbes is Director of the New Brunswick Cooperative Fish and Wildlife and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick. Dr Forbes has worked on the bat communities on the Op Wall Peru expeditions. His research focuses on predator-prey ecology, scale in ecology, forest wildlife, and conservation biology. He is currently working on white-tailed deer and forestry, spatial scale effects on small mammals in managed forests, weasels, marten and fisher relationships to snow, arctic hare ecology and park management, and yellow rails.

Andrew P Jennings

Andrew P Jennings is a consultant mammal surveyor based in the USA. Andy started the small mammal and civet work in the Lambusango forests, Indonesia with Op Wall. He has worked on carnivore projects in North and South America and in Sulawesi and is the leader of a project on small carnivore ecology and conservation in Peninsular Malaysia.

Dr Myron Shekelle, National University of Singapore

Dr Shekelle is an Instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the national University of Singapore. Dr Shekelle has worked on the tarsier project at the Op Wall Lambusango site. His research concerns tarsiers (Primates: Tarsioidea: Tarsiidae), and how complementary data sets reveal patterns and processes that might not be obvious from intensive studies that focus on a single class of data. He has been active in tarsier field biology in Indonesia since 1994 and uses systematic sampling of wild tarsier populations, focusing on genetic, acoustic, and morphologic data Dr Shekelle's research has helped uncover evidence for as many 17 cryptic species of tarsiers.