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The Gressit Center conducts systematic, zoogeographic,
biological, ecological, and evolutionary research on insects and
related terrestrial arthropods of Hawai`i, the Pacific and its
source areas and documents their nature and diversity by
continued development and maintenance of the collections.
Current Projects:
Continued upgrade of collection storage and research facilities
to support higher quality programs.
Hawaii Biological Survey and associated programs (Arakaki,
Evenhuis, Englund, Gonsalves, Howarth, Preston, Samuelson).
Insect Ecology in New Guinea (Allison [from zoology], Basset,
Miller, Samuelson).
Insect and Spider Collections of the World (Evenhuis, Samuelson).
Linked computer databases on Hawaiian arthropods (Gonsalves).
Aquatic insect surveys (Englund)
Evolution and ecology of cave arthropods (Howarth).
Chrysomelidae of the Papuan subregion (Samuelson).
Systematics of Bombyliidae and Mythicomyiidae of the world and
Dolichopodidae of Hawaii and French Polynesia (Evenhuis).
Continued selective additions to the collections, and improved
curation of them, in support of research here and eleswhere
(over 1,000,000 specimens currently out on loan).
Website: "http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/natsci/ento/index.html"
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