Robert W. Poole
722 Owens Street
Rockville, Maryland 20850

Work Phone/Fax: 301-762-2612
Home Phone: 301-762-2612
Email: poole@nearctica.com

Citizenship: U.S.A.
Birth Place: Oakland, California, November 11, 1944

Education

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853
1962 to 1966
Diploma: B.S. in Biology

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
1966 to 1969
Diploma: PhD. In Entomology

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Statistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
1972 to 1974
Probability Theory and Multivariate Statistical Analysis.

Work Experience

Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois 61820
Research Entomologist
Biosystematics of insects, faunal studies
September 1969 to August 1974.

Brown University, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Providence, Rhode Island. 02912
Assistant Professor; joint appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics
Teaching and research in theoretical and statistical ecology.
August 1974 to January 1980

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, 20560
Research Entomologist, GS 15
Biosystematics of the moth family Noctuidae
January 1980 to June 1995

Nearctica.com, Inc. Rockville, Maryland 20850
President and Owner June 1995 to present
Biological Informatics including databases, web publication, and electronic publication.

www.nearctica.com is the largest and most popular natural history website in the world with between 3 and 4 million visitors each year.

Other Qualifications

1. Twenty years research on the biosystematics of insects.

2. Ten years research experience in theoretical and statistical ecology.

3. Postdoctoral and research experience in probability theory and statistics

4. Six years experience as a teacher at Brown University and consistently voted as one of the best teachers on campus.

5. Languages: English, Spanish, German, Russian.

6. Nine years experience in the private sector running all aspects of nearctica.com, Inc. (formerly Entomological Information Services)

Appendix 1: Books and Monographs

Poole, R.W. 1974. An Introduction to Quantitative Ecology. McGraw-Hill Book Co. New York. 543 pp.

Poole, R.W. 1987. A Taxonomic Revision of the New World Moths Genus Pero (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1698. 257 pp., 1116 figures.

Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Fascicle 118. in 3 volumes. E.J. Brill. Leiden. 1314 pp.

Lafontaine, J.D. and R.W. Poole. 1991. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part). The Moths of North America North of Mexico. Fascicle 25.1. Wedge Entomological Foundation. Washington. 182 pp., 4 color plates, 20 black and white plates.

Poole, R.W. and C. Mitter. 1993. A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Heliothis virescens Species Group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with a Preliminary Morphometric Analysis of H. virescens. Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Technical Bulletin no. 185. 52 pp., 118 figures, 2 color plates.

Poole, R.W. 1994. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part). The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 25.2. Wedge Entomological Foundation. Washington. 256 pp., 5 color plates, 27 plate and white plates.

Poole, R.W., and P. Gentili. 1996. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. Volume 1. Coleoptera and Strepsiptera. Entomological Information Services. Rockville. 827 pp.

Poole, R.W., and P. Gentili. 1996. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. Volume 2. Hymenoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Rhaphidioptera, Trichoptera. Entomological Information Services. Rockville. 793 pp.

Poole, R.W., and P. Gentili. 1996. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. Volume 3. Diptera, Lepidoptera, Siphonaptera. Entomological Information Services. Rockville. 793 pp.

Poole, R.W., P. Gentili, Rosser W. Garrison, W.P. McCafferty, Daniel Otte, and Bill P. Stark. 1997. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. Volume 4 Non-Holometabolous Orders. Entomological Information Services. Rockville. 731 pp.

Poole, R.W., P. Gentili, and others. 1997. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Checklist of the Insects of North America. A database application for all the Orders. CD-ROM. Database programming by R.W. Poole.

Plus 50+ Research Papers in refereed journals on ecology, biosystematics, and evolutionary biology

Plus Web Content Equivalent to:

2001. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America. nearctica.com

2002. A Field Guide to the Conifers of North America. nearctica.com

2003. A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Eastern North America. nearctica.com

2004. A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America. nearctica.com