Timothy J. Tomon
Curatorial Assistant
Section of Invertebrate Zoology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080 U.S.A.
Office phone: (412) 622-3259
FAX: (412) 688-8670
E-mail: tomont@carnegiemnh.org

Academic Degrees:
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1996
M.S. (August 2005), The Pennsylvania State University, 2005

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include databasing specimens, preparation, labeling, and curatorial activities involving specimens for lending, including the flea collection, faunistic work on Hispaniola, packing and unpacking loans, and facilitating ongoing biodiversity initiatives in Pennsylvania including fieldwork, microdissection, and tending the section library
  General Interests:
Interested in biodiversity and systematics in general, and the intersection between these two areas of study. In particular, interested in ways of applying this information in the generation of public policy. Also interested in insect macrophotography.

General Research Interest:

Interested in systematics and natural history of the moth family Geometridae. Currently revising the ennomine genus
    Probole and collaborating on projects involving Sabulodes and various ennomine genera in the Caribbean.