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Richard C. Brusca
Curriculum Vitae

2021 N. Kinney Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85743-8918
Phone: 520-883-3007
rbrusca@desertmuseum.org

  1. EDUCATION

    PhD: 1975, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
    MSc: 1970, California State University (Los Angeles, CA)
    BS: 1967, California State Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo/Pomona, CA)

  2. CAREER APPOINTMENTS

    CURRENT POSITIONS:

    2001-present. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: 2001-2003, Director, Research and Conservation; 2003-2008, Executive Program Director; 2008-present, Senior Director of Conservation and Science and Director, ASDM Press.
    1998-present: University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Research Scientist,
    1999-present: Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Adjunct Professor

    PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

    1998-2001: Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University
    1993-1998: Professor of Biology and Director, Graduate Program in Marine Biology (and Associate Director, Grice Marine Biological Laboratory), University/College of Charleston, SC.
    1987-1993: Joshua L. Baily Chair and Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Department, San Diego Natural History Museum (Chief Curator, 1988-1990, Director, Research & Collections Division, 1990-1992)
    1984-1987: Curator of Crustacea and Head, Invertebrate Zoology Section, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles
    1980-1983: Director of Academic Programs, Catalina Marine Science Center, University of Southern California.
    1975-1986: Assistant/Associate Professor of Biology (tenured) & Curator of Crustacea, Dept. Biological Sciences & Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

  3. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

    2009-present: Board of Directors, COBI (Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C.)
    2009: Participant, Arizona Game & Fish Department - Arizona Heritage Program Invertebrate Diversity Review.
    2008-present: Co-founder (and Vice Chair, Board of Directors), Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center
    2008-present: Invited member, Expert Panel for the Catalogue of Life project.
    2008: Development of exhibit essay (Intimate Relationships) honoring pollinators, for the multimedia exhibition and performing arts event "Resonating Bodies-Bumble Domicile." A 2008 production of Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Ontario Canada. (http://www.interaccess.org/exhibitions/special.php)
    2008: Invited participant, Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI) Strategic Planning workshop, funded/facilitated by Foundations of Success (FOS), an adaptive management-based nonprofit consulting organization.
    2008: Invited peer consultant, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Bering to Baja (B2B) Marine Protected Areas Assessment Program.
    2007-present: University of Arizona, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE), Translational Environmental Research, Member of External Advisory Committee.
    2007-present: Appointed member, Advisory Board, Friends of Saguaro National Park
    2006-present: Appointed member, Arizona Invasive Species Advisory Council (appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano)
    2006-2008: Appointed member, Board of Directors, Discover Life in America
    2006-2008. Advisor, "Strange Days on Planet Earth." Eight-part television PBS series designed to improve science education and introduce the public to major global change issues. Produced by Sea Studios Foundation in cooperation with National Geographic Television and National Science Foundation.
    2005: Invited member, Encuesta Nacional Para la Identificación de Prioridades de Conservación de la Biodiversidad en México (National Planning Process for Conservation Priority Setting in Mexico), CONABIO and Comision Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas, State of Mexico
    2004-present: ASDM Research Coordinator Representative to AZA (American Zoo and Aquarium Association)
    2004: Organizer, The Gulf of California Conference 2004. Tucson, Arizona (concept, organization, fund-raising)
    2004: Juror, Art of the Sea of Cortez. A juried exhibition of the Art Institute, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
    2004: Member, Academic Program Review Panel, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Insect Science, University of Arizona
    2003-present: Member, Advisory Board to School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    2003: Juror, Nature Painted. A juried exhibition of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute
    2003: Member, Academic Program Review Panel, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Arizona
    2002-present: Member, Executive Committee, Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (DS-CESU)
    2002-present: Member, Management Board, Sonoran Joint Venture
    2002-2003: Invited participant, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Global International Waters Assessment Project. Development of an integrated assessment of transboundary environmental problems and societal root causes associated in the Lower Colorado River, its Delta, and the Upper Gulf of California
    2002: Invited participant, Colorado River Delta Specialists Workshop. Developing a GIS-based map and database for conservation of the region (Sonoran Institute and University of Arizona)
    2002-present: Member, Technical Advisory Board, Kino Bay Nature Center, Sonora, Mexico (SEMARNAT)
    2001-present: Member, Science and Technical Advisory Team, Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, Pima County, Arizona
    2001-2004: Member, Biological Experts Group, Agua Caliente Aquatic Ecosystem Study, Pima County, Arizona
    2000-2001: Director, Case Study Project, Pinacate/Gran Desierto and Upper Gulf of California/Colorado Delta Biosphere Reserves. UNESCO International Conference on Biodiversity and Society (April 2001), New York
    2000-2001: Member of Steering Committee, UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme International Conference on Biodiversity and Society (April 2001, New York City). http://www.earthscape.org/rr1/cbs01/
    2000: Advisor, Global All-Species Inventory Initiative
    2000: Invited participant, Udall Center (UofA)/UCMEXUS (Univ. Calif.) Binational Workshops on International Water Policy Issues and Management in Lower Colorado River Watershed. (October & November, 2000)
    2000-present: Board of Directors, Sonoran Sea Aquarium
    2000: Invited Participant, World Wildlife Fund workshop on "Selection and Prioritization of Protected Marine and Coastal Zones in the Gulf of California." Guaymas, Sonora (2/14-2/17)
    1999-2001: Research Associate, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
    1998-2004: Member, Board of Directors, CEDO (Center for the Study of Deserts & Oceans). Member of Executive Committee, 1998-2004; member of Research Advisory Board, 1998-2004
    1998: Invited plenary speaker, Annual Systematics Symposium, Missouri Botanical Garden
    1997-1998: Co-organizer (with Dr. Brian Kensley, Smithsonian Institution), 2nd International Isopod Conference, Amsterdam (July 15-18, 1998)
    1997-1998: Co-organizer, 2nd National Science Foundation PEET Workshop: Training Tomorrow's Systematists. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    1997-1998: Invited Nominator, PEW Fellows Program in Conservation and the Environment
    1995-2001: Board of Directors, Slocum-Lunz Foundation
    1997 - 2000: Board of Advisors, "The Shape of Life." An eight-part PBS series designed to improve science education and introduce the public to the animal kingdom. Produced by Sea Studios Foundation, in cooperation with National Geographic Television, National Science Foundation, and WNET
    1993-1998: Polar Collections Advisory Committee, Smithsonian Institution/N.S.F. (Chair, 1991-1992)
    1996: Invited plenary speaker, Phylogeny of Life Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson (http://eebweb.arizona.edu/RTG/rtg.html)
    1996-1999: Editor (Crustacea Pages) and author (Isopod Page), Tree of Life Project (http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html)
    1995-2005: Taxonomic Specialist and Contractor, ETI (Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification), University of Amsterdam
    1995: Invited participant and organization committee member, North America - South Africa: University Linkages Planning Workshop Series (Charleston, Washington D.C., Johannesburg)
    1994-present: Appointed member, IUCN/SSC Inland Water Crustacea Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission
    1994: National Science Foundation, Panelist, workshop to develop criteria and guidelines for systematic biology
    1994-1997: Department of the Interior, ephemeral waters consultant to Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior
    1994-1996: N.O.A.A. National Undersea Research Program, member of review panel
    1988-2000: PharmaMar, Madrid. Invertebrate zoologist, expedition planner, and scientific diving consultant
    1997-1999: Australian Research Council. Member, Panel of Assessors
    1989-1993: Head, Diving Control Board, San Diego Natural History Museum
    1988-1993: Adjunct Professor of Biology, California State University, San Diego
    1991-1993: Systematics Agenda 2000: Integrating Biological Diversity and Societal Needs (a national initiative), Co-Chair, Committee on Monographs and Classification
    1984-1986, 1991-1996: The Charles Lindbergh Fund, Member of Technical Review Panels
    1991-1992: "Darkened Waters: Profile of an Oil Spill," a traveling exhibit by the Pratt Museum (Homer, Alaska) on the Alaska Exxon Valdez oil spill; member of Advisory Panel and scientific editor for "Darkened Waters" (N. Lord, 66pp.), Pratt Museum, Homer
    1990-1994: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, benthic invertebrate consultant (through Dames & Moore, Inc.)
    1988-1990: National Academy of Sciences Advisory Panel Member, PBS series "The Infinite Voyage" (National Academy of Sciences/WQED Pittsburgh)
    1986-1990: National Science Foundation, Biological Systematics Program, Advisory Panel member
    1985-1998: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), field reviewer
    1985-1988: SeaPharm, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Invertebrate zoology consultant
    1985-1986: University Research Committee, advisory to President of the University, U.S.C.
    1982-1986: Organization for Tropical Studies (O.T.S.), Member, Board of Directors
    1980-1995. The Crustacean Society (Founding and Charter Member, 1980; Program Officer 1986-1987; President 1992-93; Past-President 1994-1995)
    1970-1972: Resident Director, University of Arizona-University of Sonora Cooperative Marine Laboratory, Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico
    1969-1970: Curator and Assistant Investigator, Aquatic Insects Laboratory, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
    1968-1969: Research Biochemist, CalBioChem, Los Angeles, CA
    1964-1965: Marine Biologist, U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP); 7 months in Antarctica

  4. TEACHING RECORD

    Courses taught (grad and undergrad): Summer Biodiversity Institute; Insect Biodiversity and Land Use Change in Sonora; Invertebrate Zoology; Vertebrate Zoology; Desert Ecology; Natural History of Baja California and the Sea of Cortez; Biological Systematics; Biogeography and Paleoecology; General Zoology; Marine Biology; Marine Ecology; Crustacean Biology; Man and the Sea; Parasitology; Seminars on Macroevolution, Cladistics, Use of Computers in Phylogenetic Analysis, Biogeography, Evolutionary Morphology of Arthropods; Scientific Writing; Misc. field courses in Mainland Mexico and Baja California, Costa Rica, Panama and Florida.

    1981-1983: Director of Academic Programs, Catalina Marine Science Center, U.S.C. Responsible for organizing and overseeing spring undergraduate and summer graduate teaching programs at Catalina Island Marine Laboratory.

    1993-1999: Director, Graduate Program in Marine Biology, University of South Carolina, SC. Management of graduate program with ~55 students and ~80 graduate faculty; program management, long-term curricular planning and implementation, acquisition of extramural funding.

    PhD Students: Pedro Baez (with Jody Martin), Robert Cimberg, James Coyer, Paul Delaney, Richard Hammer, Philip Pepe, Diane Perry, Carol Stepien, Joseph Wible, Mary Wicksten (with John Garth), Richard Winn, Richard Zimmerman.

    MSc Students: Ali Eshkey, Wendy Moore, Sarah Riseman, Melina Thun, Sandy Trautwein, Barry Wallerstein, David White.

    PostDocs: Vania Coelho, Scott France, Kim Franklin, Julia Kouwenberg, Zhiwei Liu

  5. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Invertebrate zoology; evolutionary and phylogenetic biology; marine biology; biodiversity, biogeography, and ecology of marine and ephemeral freshwater habitats; systematics, evolution, biogeography and ecology of crustaceans; natural history and conservation of the Sonoran Desert and Sea of Cortez; archeology of northwestern Mexico

  6. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

    2008. INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (IMLS). Phase IV, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Digital Library. $150,000. (with Debra Colodner)
    2009. WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION. Migratory Species and Climate Change in the Sonoran Desert. $45,000. (with Christine Conte)
    2008. SCHLINGER FOUNDATION. Research and Conservation Support for Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. $15,000.
    2008. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Natural Resources Condition Assessment for Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial and Fort Bowie National Historic Site. $120,000. (with Mark Dimmitt).
    2007. SCHLINGER FOUNDATION. Research and Conservation Support for Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. $20,000.
    2007. INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (IMLS). Phase III, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Digital Library. $150,000. (with Mark Dimmitt)
    2007. ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT. Support for ASDM public education programming. $45,000. (with Christine Conte)
    2007. FRIENDS OF TUMACÁCORI NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK. Documentation of Padre Eusebio Kino-Era Heritage Fruit Trees from Europe, and Development of a "Kino Orchard" at Tumacácori National Historical Park. $35,000. (with Jesús Garcia)
    2006. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE. Support for Research and Monitoring of E.S.A.-Listed Plant and Animal Species. $48,000.
    2006. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE AND BUREAU OF RECLAMATION. Captive Breeding of the Endangered Freshwater Clam Anodonta californiensis (the "California Floater"). $58,750. (with Craig Ivanyi)
    2006. SCHLINGER FOUNDATION. Research and Conservation Support for Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. $10,000.
    2006. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Citizen scientist invasive species rapid detection & reporting initiative; continuing support. $8,000
    2006. SEA STUDIOS & NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. Citizen scientist invasive species rapid detection & reporting initiative; continuing support. $35,000
    2005. AMERICAN ZOO & AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION (AZA), Conservation Endowment Fund. Invaders: A Citizen Scientist Invasive Species Initiative. $18,220.
    2005. INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (IMLS). Phase II, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Digital Library. $150,000. (with Mark Dimmitt)
    2005. THE FEAR NOT FOUNDATION. Support for film project, "In the Wake of Western Flyer." $50,000 (with Lindsey Haskin)
    2005. SEA STUDIOS & VULCAN PRODUCTIONS. Citizen scientist invasive species rapid detection & reporting initiative. $53,000.
    2004-2005. THE DAVID AND LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION. A benchmark analysis of Gulf of California esteros/estuaries: status, importance, and research and conservation needs. $84,000.
    2004-2007. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Recovery and re-establishment of Father Eusebio Kino's fruit trees from Sonora, Mexico. $40,000. (with Robert Emanuel)
    2004. SONORAN INSTITUTE. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $5,000.
    2004. CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $5,000.
    2004. WORLD WILDLIFE FUND. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $10,000.
    2004. THE DAVID AND LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $30,000
    2004. THE NATURE CONSERVANCY. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $5,000.
    2004. HOMELAND FOUNDATION (aka MARISLA FOUNDATION). Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $10,000.
    2004. SONORAN SEA AQUARIUM. Support for The Gulf of California Conference 2004. $10,000.
    2003-2004. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Field Guide to Sonoran Desert Pollinators. $10,000.
    2003-2004. WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION. A Natural History of the Sea of Cortez (conference and book) - Part 2. $15,000.
    2003-2004. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Aquatic Invertebrate Survey, Santa Cruz River. $75,000.
    2003. STONEWALL FOUNDATION. $30,000. Support for Amigos del Desierto Program, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
    2003. BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL. $6,000. Bat education outreach in Southern Arizona.
    2003. CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL. $6,000. Publication of Sea of Cortez Faunal Checklist.
    2002-2003. ORIGINS SOCIETY. $1,500. Underwriting for Sea of Cortez Conference.
    2002-2003. WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION. A Natural History of the Sea of Cortez (conference and book) - Part 1. $15,000.
    2002-2003. G.A. BINNEY FOUNDATION. $5,000. Support for Conference on the Sea of Cortez.
    2002-2003. GILES MEAD FOUNDATION. $15,000. Hummingbird Nectar Corridors and Educational Outreach in the Southern Arizona Border Region: An Extension of the Migratory Pollinators Program.
    2002-2003. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. $14,000. Establishing pollinator gardens at Tumacacori National Historic Site and San Lázaro (Sonora).
    2002. SONORAN JOINT VENTURES. Borderland Pollinator Education. $10,000
    2001-2002 (18 mos.). NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Botany internship for Organ Pipe National Monument. Approx. $57,000.
    2001-2002 (18 mos.). NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Mountain lion internship for Saguaro National Park. Approx. $36,000.
    1999-2001. UNESCO (United Nations). $15,000. A Case Study on the Upper Gulf of California/Colorado River Delta and El Pinacate/Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserves of Northwest Mexico.
    1995-2001. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: A Revision of the Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda), with Monographs on Selected Genera and a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Family. $633,000. (PEET Program, Division of Environmental Biology)
    1996-1997. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Photo-Identification of Bottlenose Dolphins. $10,499 (Graduate Student Support).
    1996-1997. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Sediment Toxicity Testing Using Juvenile Clams. $2,119 (Graduate Student Support).
    1995-1996. CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: Biodiversity Database for the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) - Phase II: $13,000.
    1995-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Photo-Identification of Bottlenose Dolphins. $18,759 (Graduate Student Support).
    1995-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Role of Bacteria in PSP Toxin Production and Evaluation of Phycotoxin Assays. $31,000. [Co-P.I. with Gregory Doucette] (Graduate Student Support)
    1995-1996. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: Evolution of Polynesian Island Marine Faunas. $9,000.
    1995-1996. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: Evolution of Polynesian Island Marine Faunas. $3,800.
    1995-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Technical Support for Toxic Dinoflagellate Research for National Marine Fisheries Service Charleston Laboratory. $62,320 (Graduate Student Support).
    1995-1996. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Graduate Student Fellowships for University of Charleston students. $49,027.
    1995. UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON, Research Committee. Biogeography of Polynesian Marine Faunas. $2,500.
    1994-1997. NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Database Management & Assessment in Support of the Joint NOAA-NS&T/EPA-EMAP Coastal Research & Monitoring Program. $299,090.
    1993-1995. CONABIO (Comisión Nacional Para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad), Mexico; Biodiversity Database for the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California). Phase I: $26,200
    1993-1994. U.S. NAVY: Biodiversity Analysis of Vernal Pool Arthropods on Miramar Naval Air Station, San Diego, CA. $77,567.
    1992. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASH. D.C.: Short-term Visitors Grant.
    1992-1994. CalBioMarine Technologies/NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: Taxonomy and Collection of Marine Invertebrates for Feasibility Studies on the Aquaculture of Marine Organisms for Pharmacological Studies.
    1992-1994. PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC/BECHTEL: Survey of Vernal Pool Invertebrate Communities of California's Central Valley. (M. Simovich)
    1990-1992. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. V.
    1990-1992. U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT/MINERALS MANAGEMENT SURVEY (through Science Applications Inc.): Benthic Atlas of Santa Maria Basin, California (Crustacea, Isopoda).
    1989-1991. THE WEILER FOUNDATION: Biogeography of Polynesian Marine Faunas.
    1989-1991. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: Evolution of Polynesian Island Marine Faunas.
    1988. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASH. D.C.: Short-term Visitors Grant.
    1987-1989. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. IV.
    1986-1989. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Collection Facilities Support for Crustacea Collection, L.A. County Museum of Natural History.
    1986-1987. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. III.
    1985-1986. THE RALPH J. WEILER FOUNDATION: Effects of Siltation on Invertebrate Communities on a Caribbean Coral Reef (Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica).
    1985-1986. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: X-Ray Microanalysis of Heavy Metals in the Sand Crab Emerita analoga. [for grad student support]
    1984-1985. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Characterization of Ultrastructural Mineralization in Crustacean Exoskeleton and the Co-deposition of Toxic Heavy Metals. [for grad student support]
    1981. THE CHARLES LINDBERGH FUND: Systematics of Costa Rican Isopod Crustaceans.
    1981-1983. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. II.
    1978. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Comparative Studies on Tropical American Sargassum Communities [one of several projects for joint use of the R/V Alpha Helix in the western Caribbean].
    1978-l979. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: The Roles of Thermal Stress and Predation in the Regulation of Marine Isopod Crustacean Distributions in the Eastern Pacific.
    1978-1980. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Visiting Scientist Support, Costa Rica. To assist the University of Costa Rica's new Marine Sciences Institute with programs start-up.
    1978-1980. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Monographic Studies on Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. I.
    1977-1978. CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME: Survey of Coastal Sites of Designated Ecological Significance in Southern California.
    1977-1978. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Reproduction and Spermatophores of the Calanoid Copepod Acartia tonsa. [for grad student support]
    1976-1977. N.O.A.A., SEA GRANT: Food Resource Dynamics and Utilization in a Channel Island Macrocystis Habitat.

  7. HONORS/AWARDS

    2007. Award from Pima County and Mr. Chuck Huckleberry (Pima County Administrator), for service on the Science and Technical Advisory Team for the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, Pima County, Arizona.
    2004. New England Book Show: Juried award for best new college textbook: Invertebrates, 2nd ed. (R.C. Brusca/G.J. Brusca, Sinauer Associates).
    2003: Play based on 1983 Brusca/Gilligan research on Cymothoa exigua. "Tennessee Speaks in Tongues for You" by R.J. Tsarov. Premiered at annual Tennessee Williams Festival, 2003, New Orleans (www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-04-01/thea_review.html); most recent performance at Rhinofest, Chicago (www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theaterreviews/060915_2/).
    2001: Elected to Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    2000: Elected to Fellow, Linnean Society of London.
    1995: Distinguished Achievement Award, School of Sciences and Mathematics, College of Charleston.
    1994: Hammer Award Nominee & Honorable Mention (as a member of the Fort Johnson Marine & Environmental Health Laboratory Planning Team), "Heroes of Reinvention/Al Gore Hammer Award" (Vice President Gore's "Reinventing Government Program")
    1991-present: Honorary lifetime member Asociacion de Investigadores del Mar de Cortes.
    1990. New England Book Show: Juried award for best new college textbook: Invertebrates (R.C. Brusca/G.J. Brusca, Sinauer Associates).
    1990: Commendation for editorial contributions to Revista de Biología Tropical, the scientific journal of the University of Costa Rica.
    1989: Award of Recognition from The Binational Emergency Medical Care Committee [for contributions to the well being of the people of Mexico]
    1984-present: Patronyms: Colanthura bruscai Poore, 1984 (Isopoda); Excorallana bruscai Delaney, 1984 (Isopoda); Cleantioides bruscai (Kensley, 1987) [as Miratidotea bruscai] (Isopoda); Progebiophilus bruscai Salazar and Leija, 1989 (Isopoda); Schizobopyrina bruscai Campos and Campos, 1990 (Isopoda); Apanthura bruscai Müller, 1992 (Isopoda); Exosphaeroma bruscai Espinosa-Pérez and Hendrickx, 2001 (Isopoda); Cirolana bruscai Bruce & Olesen, 2002 (Isopoda); Aega rickbruscai Bruce, 2004 (Isopoda)
    1981: Research Excellence Award, University of Southern California
    1980: Charter Member, The Crustacean Society. President 1991-1993
    1977 (to present): Sigma Xi (member-at-large)
    1965: United States Antarctic Service Medal

  8. EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS

    Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press.
    Director, 2005-present. Oversight of all ASDM Press books acquisition, development, editing, design, printing and marketing.
    • Includes concept and development of bilingual children's books on Sonoran Desert natural history, with accompanying curricular material, 2006-present. My Nana's Remedies (Roni Capin-Ashford); Hip Hip, It's Monsoon Day (Roni Capin-Ashford); The Little Saguaro (Shannon Young); Alice. A Story of Friendship (William Verbooten); Katie, of the Sonoran Desert (Kate Jackson).
    • Includes concept and development of Dining with the Desert Museum (Tabasco 2006 Regional Cookbook Award) and A Desert Illuminated. Cactus Flowers of the Sonoran Desert.
    Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Publications in Natural History.
    Book series editor (co-published by ASDM Press and University of Arizona Press). 2001-present.
    Tropical Zoology, National Research Institute of Italy.
    Member of Advisory Board, 2002-present.
    Ciencias del Mar, UAS.
    Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Member, Editorial Board, 1998-present.
    McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
    Member, Board of Consulting Editors, 1996-2000.
    Invertebrate Taxonomy.
    CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia. Regional Advisor, North America, 1991-present.
    Investigaciones Marinas.
    The International Marine Science Journal of CICIMAR (Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico). Member, Editorial Board, 1989-present.
    Kansas Biology Teacher.
    Consultant to the Editor, Kansas Biology Teacher, Emporia State University, KA, 1992-present.
    San Diego Museum of Natural History.
    Member, Editorial Board (Proceedings, Science Series, Transactions), 1987-1994.
    Allan Hancock Foundation
    Editor, 1978-1985; Member of Publications Committee, 1977-1990. (Monographs in Marine Biology, Occasional Papers, Technical Reports, Miscellaneous Publications).
    Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
    Member of Editorial Board, 1985-1987. (Contributions in Science, Science Series, Technical Series).
    Gayana.
    The zoology journal of the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. Member, Editorial Board, 1983-1990.

  9. EXPEDITIONARY AND FIELD RESEARCH

    New World:
    Throughout North, Central and South America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Galapagos Is., Peru, Uruguay, Chile; extensive in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina/Tierra del Fuego); throughout Caribbean (extensive in Virgin Is., Bahamas, Roatan, San Adres, Belize Barrier Reef). Submersible work (Johnson SeaLink) in Caribbean and Galapagos Islands.
    Pacific:
    Bora Bora, Moorea, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Tonga (Nuku'alofa, Vava'u), American and Western Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Australia (extensive), New Zealand, Hawaii, Antarctica.
    Old World:
    Throughout Western Mediterranean, Spain, Morocco, South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Madagascar.

PUBLICATIONS OF RICHARD C. BRUSCA
(* refereed publications; authored/edited books in boldface)

  1. *1971. Brusca, R.C. A new species of Leptohyphes from Mexico (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47(2): 146-148.
  2. *1972. Brusca, R.C. and J. Haig. Range extensions of porcelain and hermit crabs in the Gulf of California. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 71(1): 56.
  3. Brusca, R.C. The fiddler crabs of the Gulf of California, Part I: Ecology. The Stomatopod 3(1): 16-17.
  4. Brusca, R.C. The fiddler crabs of the Gulf of California, Part II: Taxonomy. The Stomatopod 3(2): 38-40.
  5. *1973. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca. New species of Leptohyphinae from Mexico and Central America (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae). Canad. Entomol. 105: 83-95.
  6. Brusca, R.C. A Handbook to the Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 427 pp., 295 figs. Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson.
  7. *1973. Brusca, R.C. & R.K. Allen. A new species of Choroterpes from Mexico (Insecta: Ephemeroptera). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 46: 137-139.
  8. *1973. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca. The known geographic distribution of the Mexican mayfly genera in North America (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). Proc. First Internat. Conf. Ephemeroptera. E.J. Brill, Leiden, Holland. Pp. 49-63.
  9. Brusca, R.C. La Paz, the City of Peace. Part I. The Region of La Paz and its History. The Stomatopod 4(l): 16-18.
  10. Brusca, R.C. Report of the Alpha Helix Baja California Expedition, Zoological classification. In, Alpha Helix Research Program, 1972-1974. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., Univ. Calif. San Diego: 72-73.
  11. Hager, L.P., R.H. White, P.F. Hollenberg, R.C. Brusca, D.L. Doubeck, and R. Guerrero. A survey of organic halogens in marine organisms. Report of the Alpha Helix Baja California Expedition. In, Alpha Helix Research Program, 1972-1974. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., Univ. Calif. San Diego: 73-75.
  12. *1975. Hager, L.P., R.H. White, P.F. Hollenberg, R.C. Brusca, & D.L. Doubeck. A rearranged dibromotryosine metabolite from the sponge Verongia aurea. Tetrahedron Letters 8: 507-510.
  13. *1976. Rinehart, K.L., W.O. McClure, L.P. Hager & R.C. Brusca. A survey of organic halogens in marine organisms. Proc. Food & Drugs from the Sea Conference, 1974. J. Mar. Tech. Soc., pp. 421-428.
  14. *1976. Brusca, R.C. Evolución geologica del norte del Golfo de California y comentarios sobre su fauna. In, SONORA: ANTROPOLOGIA DEL DESIERTO, SESSION DE ECOLOGIA DEL DESIERTO DE SONORA. Inst. Nac. Anthro. Hist., pp. 85-93.
  15. *1977. Snyder-Conn, E. & R.C. Brusca. Shrimp population dynamics and fishery impact in the northern Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas 1(3): 54-67.
  16. *1977. Brusca, R.C. & D.A. Thomson. The Pulmo Reefs of Baja California - true coral reef formation in the Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas 1(3): 37-53.
  17. Brusca, R.C. & J. Coyer. Food resource dynamics and utilization in a Channel Island Macrocystis habitat. In, The Planning and Management of California's Coastal Resources. Univ. So. Calif. Sea Grant Ann. Rpts., pp. 20-21.
  18. *1977. Brusca, R.C. & B.R. Wallerstein. The marine isopod crustaceans of the Gulf of California. I. Family Idoteidae. Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 2634: 1-17. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/2949 [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca_and_Wallerstein_1977.pdf]
  19. *1977. Brusca, R.C. Range extensions and new host records of cymothoid isopods (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) in the east Pacific. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 76(2): 128-131.
  20. *1978. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca. Generic revisions of mayfly nymphs. II. Thraulodes in North and Central America (Leptophlebiidae). Canad. Entomol. 110: 413-433.
  21. Coyer, J. & R.C. Brusca. Food resource dynamics and utilization in a Channel Island Macrocystis habitat [update]. In, The Planning and Management of California's Coastal Resources. Univ. So. Calif. Sea Grant Ann. Rpt., pp. 18-20.
  22. *1978. Brusca, R.C. Studies on the cymothoid fish symbionts of the eastern pacific (Isopoda: Cymothoidae). I. Biology of Nerocila californica. Crustaceana 34(2): 141-154.
  23. *1978. Brusca, R.C. and M. Ninos. The status of Cirolana californiensis Schultz and Cirolana deminuta Menzies and George, with a key to the California species of Cirolana (Isopoda: Cirolanidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 91(2): 379-385.
  24. Brusca, G.J. & R.C. Brusca. A Naturalist's Seashore Guide. Common Marine Life of the Northern California Coast and Adjacent Shores. 205 pp. Mad River Press, CA.
  25. *1978. Brusca, R.C. Studies on the cymothoid fish symbionts of the Eastern Pacific (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae). II. Biology and systematics of Lironeca vulgaris. Occ. Paps. Allan Hancock Fdn. (n. ser.) 2: 1-19.
  26. *1979. Brusca, R.C. and B.R. Wallerstein. Zoogeographic patterns of idoteid isopods in the northeast Pacific, with a review of shallow-water zoogeography for the region. Bull. Biol. Soc. Wash. 3: 67-105.
  27. *1979. Brusca, R.C. & B.R. Wallerstein. The marine isopod crustaceans of the Gulf of California. II. Idoteidae. New genus, new species, new records, and comments on the morphology, taxonomy and evolution within the family. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 92(2): 253-271.
  28. Brusca, R.C. Heisler Park Ecological Reserve, Orange County, CA. California Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt. 79-2: 1-29.
  29. Brusca, R.C. Irvine Coast Marine Life Refuge, Orange County, CA. California Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt. 79-3: 1-30.
  30. Brusca, R.C. Newport Beach Marine Life Refuge, Orange County, CA. California Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt. 79-4: 1-25.
  31. Brusca, R.C. The Allan Hancock Foundation of the University of Southern California. Assoc. Systematics Collections Newsletter 8(1): 1-7.
  32. Brusca, R.C. Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd Edition. 513 pp, 340 figs, 243 B&W photos, color photos. Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
  33. Brusca, R.C. & D.M. Perry. The function of the shell spine in the predaceous intertidal snail Acanthina spirata. Amer. Zool. 20(4): 919. [abstract]
  34. *1980. Thun, M. & R.C. Brusca. On the status of the eastern Pacific cymothoid fish parasite Braga occidentalis Boone, and its synonymy with B. patagonica Schioedte and Meinert (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae). Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 79(3): 130-132.
  35. *1981. Rinehart, K.L. and 24 other authors. Marine natural products as sources of antiviral, antimicrobial, and antineoplastic agents. Pure & Appl. Chem. 53: 795-817.
  36. *1981. Brusca, R.C. A monograph on the Isopoda Cymothoidae (Crustacea) of the Eastern Pacific. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. (London) 73(2): 117-199.
  37. *1982. Wallerstein, B.R. & R.C. Brusca. Fish predation: A preliminary study of its role in the zoogeography and evolution of shallow-water idoteid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae). J. Biogeography 9: 135-150.
  38. *1982. Bruce, N.L., R.C. Brusca, & P.M. Delaney. The status of the isopod families Corallanidae Hansen, 1890 and Excorallanidae Stebbing, 1904 (Flabellifera). J. Crustacean Biol. 2(3): 464-468.
  39. *1983. Brusca, R.C. A monograph on the isopod family Aegidae in the tropical Eastern Pacific. I. The genus Aega. Allan Hancock Fdn., Monogr. Mar. Biol., No. 12: 1-39.
  40. *1983. Brusca, R.C. Two new idoteid isopods from Baja California and the Gulf of California (Mexico) and an analysis of the evolutionary history of the genus Colidotea (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae). Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 20(4): 69-79.
  41. *1983. Brusca, R.C. and M.R. Gilligan. Tongue replacement in a marine fish (Lutjanus guttatus) by a parasitic isopod (Crustacea: Isopoda). Copeia 3: 813-816. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca_and_Gilligan_1983.pdf]
  42. *1984. Brusca, R.C. Phylogeny, evolution and biogeography of the marine isopod subfamily Idoteinae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae). Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 20(7): 99-134.
  43. Brusca R.C. Corals and Coral Reefs of the Galapagos Islands, by P.W. Glynn and G.M. Wellington (with an Annotated List of the Scleractinian Corals of the Galapagos, by J.W. Wells). [book review] Environ. Conserv. (Geneva), 12(2): 191-192.
  44. *1985. Stepien, C.A. & R.C. Brusca. Nocturnal attacks on nearshore fishes in southern California by crustacean zooplankton. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 25: 91-105.
  45. Brusca, R.C. The Biology of Terrestrial Isopods, by S.L. Sutton & D.M. Holdich (eds.). [book review] Science, 230(4726): 659.
  46. *1985. Delaney, P.M. & R.C. Brusca. Two new species of Tridentella Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Flabellifera: Tridentellidae) from California, with a rediagnosis and comments on the family and a key to the genera of Tridentellidae and Corallanidae. J. Crustacean Biol. 5(4): 728-742. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Delaney_and_Brusca_1985.pdf]
  47. *1985. Brusca, R.C. & E.W. Iverson. A guide to the marine isopod Crustacea of Pacific Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 33 (Suppl. 1): 1-77.
  48. Brusca, R.C. & R. Wetzer. Marshes of the Ocean Shore, by J.V. Siry. [book review] Environmental Professional 7(2): 191-192.
  49. *1986. McClure, W.O., D.E. Baxter, R.C. Brusca, R.D. Crosland, T.H. Hsiao, M.L. Koenig, J.V. Martin & J.E. Yoshino. Studies of two novel presynaptic toxins, pp. 1203-1214 in, I. Hanin (ed.) Dynamics of Cholinergic Function. Plenum Press, N.Y. pp. 1203-1214.
  50. *1987. Brusca, R.C. Biogeographic relationships of Galapagos marine isopod crustaceans. Bull. Mar. Sci. 41(2): 268-281.
  51. *1987. Wetzer, R., P.M. Delaney, & R.C. Brusca. Politolana wickstenae new species, a new cirolanid isopod from the Gulf of Mexico, and a review of the "Conilera genus-group" of Bruce (1968). Contrb. Sci., L.A. Co. Natural History Museum, No. 392: 1-10.
  52. *1987. Brusca, R.C. & J.R. Weinberg. A new isopod crustacean from Pacific Panama, Excirolana chamensis new species (Isopoda: Flabellifera: Cirolanidae). Contrb. Sci., L.A. Co. Natural History Museum, No. 392: 11-17.
  53. *1988. Guzman, H.M., V.L. Obando, R.C. Brusca & P.M. Delaney. Aspects of population biology of the marine isopod Excorallana tricornis occidentalis Richardson, 1905 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Corallanidae) at Cano Island, Pacific Costa Rica. Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(1): 77-87.
  54. Brusca, R.C. Foreword, in, A. Kerstitch, Sea of Cortez Marine Invertebrates. A Guide for the Pacific Coast, Mexico to Ecuador. Sea Challengers Press, Monterey, CA. pp. i-iii.
  55. *1989. Perry, D.M. and R.C. Brusca. Effects of the root-boring isopod Sphaeroma peruvianum on red mangrove forests. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 57: 287-292.
  56. Brusca, R.C. Science and natural history museums. I. What is science? Upstairs. A Newsletter of the San Diego Natural History Museum Science Division 2(4): 3-5.
  57. Brusca, R.C. Provisional keys to the genera Cirolana, Gnathia, and Limnoria known from California waters. SCAMIT [Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists] Newsletter 8(4): 17-21.
  58. Brusca, R.C. Science and natural history museums. II. Science in the museum. Upstairs. A Newsletter of the San Diego Natural History Museum Science Division 3(1/2): 3-5.
  59. Brusca, R.C. and G.J. Brusca. Invertebrates. 922 pp., 603 figs. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA 01375.
  60. Brusca, R.C. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods, Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s., Monogr. 4: 1-512. [book review] J. Crustacean Biology 10(3): 568-570.
  61. Brusca, R.C. Comment on the proposed designation of Lysianax cubensis Stebbing, 1897 as the type species of Shoemakerella Pirlot, 1936 (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Bull. Zool. Nomen. 47(3): 213.
  62. 1990. Brusca, R.C. and R. Wetzer. Tropical deforestation and coral reefs. Field Notes, San Diego Natural History Museum 3(4): 6-7.
  63. Brusca, R.C. Guide to the Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Caribbean, by B. Kensley and M. Schotte. [book review] Quarterly Rev. Biol. 66: 98-99.
  64. *1991. Wetzer, R., H.G. Kuck, and P. Baez, R.C. Brusca, and L.M. Jurkevics. Catalog of the Isopod Crustacea type collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., Tech. Rpt. No. 3: 1-59.
  65. *1991. Brusca, R.C. and H.-G. Müller. Skuphonura kensleyi n.sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda), a new anthuridean species from the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 104(3): 593-602.
  66. *1991. Chavez, F.P. and R.C. Brusca. The Galapagos Islands and their relation to oceanographic processes in the tropical Pacific, Pp. 9-33 [Chapter 1] in, M. James (ed.) Galapagos Marine Invertebrates. Plenum Publ. Corp., Vol. 8 of "Topics in Geobiology".
  67. *1991. Brusca, R.C. and G.D.F. Wilson. A phylogenetic analysis of the Isopoda (Crustacea) with some classificatory recommendations. Mem. Queensland Mus. 31: 143-204. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca_and_Wilson1991.pdf]
  68. *1992. Brusca, R.C. and M.E. Hendrickx (eds.). Benthic Macro-Crustaceans of the Eastern Tropical Pacific [Proceedings of the First Colloquium on Benthic Macro-Crustaceans of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Mazatlán, March 1990]. San Diego Natural History Museum and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 134 pp. [Proceedings 9-27, San Diego Society of Natural History]
  69. Brusca, R.C. Dedication to John S. Garth, pp. iii-iv in Benthic Macro-Crustaceans of the Eastern Tropical Pacific [Proceedings of the First Colloquium on Benthic Macro-Crustaceans of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Mazatlán, March 1990]. San Diego Natural History Museum and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 134 pp. [Proceedings 9-27, San Diego Society of Natural History]
  70. *1992. Müller, H.-G. and R.C. Brusca. Validation and redescription of Iais singaporensis Menzies & Barnard, 1951 (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae), a commensal with Sphaeroma triste Heller, 1865 from a Malayasian coral reef. Zoologischer Anzeiger 229(1/2): 73-82.
  71. *1992. Brusca, R.C. and S. France. The genus Rocinela (Crustacea: Isopoda: Aegidae) in the tropical eastern Pacific. Zoological J. Linnean Soc. (London) 106: 231-275.
  72. Simovich, M.A., J.L. King and R.C. Brusca. The branchiopod community. Vol. 2 in Simovich, M.A. et al., Invertebrate Survey, 1991-1993: PGT-PG&E California Pipeline Expansion Project. Report to Bechtel Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, CA
  73. Simovich, M.A., R.C. Brusca and J.L. King. Crustacean and insect communities. Vol. 3 in Simovich, M.A. et al., Invertebrate Survey, 1991-1993: PGT-PG&E California Pipeline Expansion Project. Report to Bechtel Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, CA
  74. *1993. Brusca, R.C. The Arizona/Sea of Cortez years of J. Laurens Barnard. J. Natural History 27(4): 727-730.
  75. Cadien, D. and R.C. Brusca. Anthuridean isopods (Crustacea) of California and the temperate northeast Pacific. SCAMIT [Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists] Newsletter 12(6): 1-26.
  76. King, J.L., R.C. Brusca and M.A. Simovich. Crustacean communities of northern California vernal pools. American Zoologist 33(5): 79(A). [abstract]
  77. *1995. Brusca, R.C., R. Wetzer, and S. France. Cirolanidae (Crustacea; Isopoda; Flabellifera) of the tropical eastern Pacific. Proceedings San Diego Natural History Society, No. 30, 96 pp.
  78. *1996. King, J.L., M.A. Simovich, and R.C. Brusca. Endemism, species richness, and ecology of crustacean assemblages in northern California vernal pools. Hydrobiologia 328: 85-116.
  79. Brusca, R.C. and Brusca. Invertebrati (Italian edition). Zanichelli, Bologna, Italy. 1,008 pp. [Italian translation of B/B INVERTEBRATES, Sinauer, 1990.]
  80. *1997. Wetzer, R., R.C. Brusca and G.D.F. Wilson. The Order Isopoda. Introduction to the Marine Isopoda. Pp. 1-8 in J.A. Blake and P. H. Scott (eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 11. The Crustacea, Part 2: Isopoda, Cumacea and Tanaidacea. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA.
  81. *1997. Wetzer, R. and R.C. Brusca. The Order Isopoda. Descriptions of the Species of the Suborders Anthuridea, Epicaridea, Flabellifera, Gnathiidea and Valvifera. Pp. 9-58 in J.A. Blake and P. H. Scott (eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 11. The Crustacea, Part 2: Isopoda, Cumacea and Tanaidacea. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA.
  82. *1997. Brusca, G.J., R.C. Brusca and S.F. Gilbert. Characteristics of Metazoan Development. Chapter 1 (pp. 3-19) in S.F. Gilbert & A.M. Raunio (eds.) Embryology: Constructing the Organism. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
  83. Brusca, R.C. Isopoda. Version 06 August 1997. http://tolweb.org/Isopoda/6320/1997.08.06, in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/ (Electronic Publication)
  84. Brusca, R.C. Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Vols. 13 and 15, by R. Harrison (ed.). [book review] Bulletin of Marine Science 62(1): 297-298.
  85. *2000. Brusca, R.C. Unraveling the History of Arthropod Biodiversification. In, Our Unknown Planet: Recent Discoveries and the Future. Proceedings of the 45th Ann. Systematics Symposium, Missouri Botanical Garden. Ann. Missouri Botanical Garden 87:13-25. [Abridged version also published in Kansas Biology Teacher 9(2): 54-57] [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca_2000.pdf]
  86. *2001. Kensley, B. and R.C. Brusca (eds). Isopod Systematics and Evolution. Crustacean Issues 13, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 365pp.
  87. *2001. Riseman, S., A.M. Pires and R.C. Brusca. A new species of Politolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the south Brazilian shelf. Pp. 51-61 in, B. Kensley & R.C. Brusca (eds), Isopod Systematics and Evolution. Crustacean Issues 13, Balkema, Rotterdam.
  88. Brusca, R.C., V. Coelho and S. Taiti. 2001. A Guide to the Coastal Isopods of California. http://www.tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=3004 (Electronic Publication)
  89. Brusca, R.C., J. Campoy Fabela, C. Castillo Sánchez, R. Cudney-Bueno, L.T. Findley, J. Garcia-Hernández, E. Glenn, I. Granillo, M.E. Hendrickx, J. Murrieta, C. Nagel, M. Román, P. Turk-Boyer. A Case Study of Two Mexican Biosphere Reserves. The Upper Gulf of California/Colorado River Delta and Pinacate/Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserves. 2000 UNESCO Conference on Biodiversity and Society, Columbia University Earthscape (an electronic journal), www.earthscape.org/rr1/cbs01.html.
  90. Brusca, R.C. Origin of the Hexapoda. Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 37(1/2): 1-304. T. Deuve, Editor. [Book Review]. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21(4): 1084-1086.
  91. *2002. Riseman, S. and R.C. Brusca. A monograph on the isopod genus Politolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae). Zoological Journal, Linnean Society of London 134: 57-140.
  92. Brusca, R.C. A Sapphire Sea in the Sonoran Desert. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum News, 3(3): 2-4.
  93. *2002. Hendrickx, M.E., R.C. Brusca and G. Ramirez Resendiz. Biodiversity of Macrocrustaceans in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Pp. 349-367, in M.E. Hendrickx (ed.), Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans [Contribuciones al Estudio de los Crustaceos del Pacifico Este], Volume 1. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, Mexico. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Hendirckx_et_al._2002.pdf]
  94. 2002 Brusca, R. C. On the Vermilion Sea. sonorensis, Winter 2002. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. Pp. 2-9. [www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  95. 2002 Brusca, R. C. Biodiversity in the Northern Gulf of California. (Biodiversidad en el Golfo de California Norte). CEDO News 10(1): 1-45.
  96. Brusca, R.C. and G.P. Nabhan. Migratory Pollinators and Their Nectar Corridors in the Southwestern U.S. and Northwestern Mexico. Final Report to the Turner Foundation (Atlanta, GA) and Turner Endangered Species fund (Bozeman, MT). 126 pp.
  97. Dimmitt, M. and R.C. Brusca. Endangered species and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Endangered Species Bulletin 27(2): 8-11. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Dimmitt_and_Brusca_2002.pdf]
  98. *2002. Hendrickx M. E. and R. C. Brusca. Biodiversidad de los invertebrados marinos de Sinaloa. Pp. 141-163 in, J. L. Cifuentes Lemus and J. Gaxiola López (eds.), Atlas de Sinaloa. Colegio de Ciencias de Sinaloa, Mexico. 442 pp. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Hendrickx_and_Brusca_2002.pdf]
  99. 2003. Brusca, R.C. and G.J. Brusca. Invertebrates. 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. 936 pp.
  100. 2003. Brusca, R. C. Desert Ecology: An Introduction to Life in the Arid Southwest, John Sowell. Univ. Utah Press. [Book Review] Natural Resources Journal, Univ. New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, pp. 685-687.
  101. *2003. Moore, W. and R.C. Brusca. A monograph on the isopod genus Colopisthus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) with the description of a new genus. Journal of Natural History (London) 37: 1329-1399. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Moore_and_Brusca_2003.pdf]
  102. 2003. Brusca, R.C. and R.J. Edison. Introduction. Pp. 1-3 in S. Phillips (ed.), The Santa Cruz River. sonorensis, Winter 2003. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca_and_Edison_2003.pdf]
  103. 2004. Brusca, R.C., E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Tucson, AZ. 203 pp. [Available at www.desertmuseum.org/books/]
  104. 2004. Brusca, R.C. The Gulf of California - an Overview. Pp. 1-8, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  105. 2004. Brusca, R.C. A History of Discovery in the Northern Gulf of California. Pp. 9-24, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  106. 2004. Brusca, R.C. A Brief History of Sonora. Pp. 25-34, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  107. 2004. Brusca, R.C., E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Invertebrates [of the Northern Gulf of California]. Pp. 35-107, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  108. 2004. Brusca, R.C. Fishes [of the Northern Gulf of California]. Pp. 109-115, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  109. 2004. Brusca, R.C., E. Mellink and E. Kimrey. Coastal Birds [of the Northern Gulf of California]. Pp. 117-126, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  110. 2004. Brusca, R.C., L.T. Findley and E. Kimrey. Marine Reptiles [of the Northern Gulf of California]. Pp. 127-128, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  111. 2004. Brusca, R.C., L.T. Findley and E. Kimrey. Marine Mammals [of the Northern Gulf of California]. Pp. 129-132, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  112. 2004. Woo, H., E. Glenn, R.C. Brusca and R. McCourt. Algae [of the Northern Gulf of California]. Pp. 133-145, in R.C. Brusca, R.C., E. Kimrey and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  113. 2004. Nabhan, G.P. and R.C. Brusca. Sustainable Seafood and the Fate of the Oceans. A Primer for Arizonans. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  114. 2004. Brusca, R.C. and M. Hendrickx. Invertebrate Biodiversity in the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the Gulf of California Conference 2004. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. [published summary]
  115. 2004. Felger, R.C., W.J. Nicols, A. Aguirre, H. Aridijis, L. Bourillón, R.C. Brusca, J. Campoy, A. Cantu, J.-L. Cartron, G.D. Danemann, H. D'Antoni, P.K. Dayton, S.A. Diehn, L. Gerber, J.L. León de la Luz, C. Mártinez del Rio, R.A. Medellín, E.P. Castro and E. Sala. Escalera Ecológica Initiative: A staircase of reserves through the Gulf of California Corridor. Proceedings of the Gulf of California Conference 2004, pp. 71-72. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. [published summary]
  116. *2004. Nabhan, G. P., R. C. Brusca and L. Holter (eds.). Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Studies in Natural History. University of Arizona Press & Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. 190 pp.
  117. 2004. Brusca, R. C. Foreword, pp. 6-7 in, N. Chambers, Y. Gray and S. Buchmann, Pollinators of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 166 pp. [bilingual] [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Pollinators_book_Foreword_2004.pdf]
  118. *2004. Brusca, R. C. and G. C. Bryner. A Case Study Of Two Mexican Biosphere Reserves: The Upper Gulf of California/Colorado River Delta and Pinacate/Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserves. Pp. 21-52 in N. E. Harrison and G. C. Bryner (eds.), Science and Politics in the International Environment. Rowman and Littlefield, New York. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca_and_Bryner_2004.pdf]
  119. 2004. Dimmitt, M. A, R. C. Brusca and R. Edison. Introduction. Pp. 1-3 in S. Phillips (ed.), Climate Change. sonorensis, Winter 2004. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca_et_al._2004.pdf]
  120. 2004. Nagler, P., E. Glenn and R. C. Brusca. Photographic Atlas of Esteros and Other Coastal Wetlands of Conservation Interest in the Northern Gulf of California. 147 pp. Published by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum as a working atlas for wetlands researchers in the Gulf of California.
  121. *2005. Brusca, R. C. and G. J. Brusca. Invertebrados (Spanish edition). McGraw-Hill/Interamericana de España, S.A.U., Madrid. 1005 pp. [http://www.mcgraw-hill.es/html/8448602463.html]
  122. 2005. Brusca, R. C. and C. Conte. Invaders of the Sonoran Desert. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum News 6(3): 2-4. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Brusca-Conte_2005.pdf]
  123. *2005. McLaughlin, P. A., D. K. Camp, M. V. Angel, E. L. Bousfield, P. Brunel, R. C. Brusca, D. Cadien, A. C. Cohen, K. Conlan, L. G. Eldredge, D. L. Felder, J. W. Goy, T. Haney, B. Hann, R. W. Heard, E. A. Hendrycks, H. H. Hobbs III, J. R. Holsinger, B. Kensley, D. R. Laubitz, S. E. LeCroy, R. Lemaitre, R. F. Maddocks, J. W. Martin, P. Mikkelsen, E. Nelson, W. A. Newman, R. M. Overstreet, W. J. Poly, W. W. Price, J. W. Reid, A. Robertson, D. C. Rogers, A. Ross, M. Schotte, F. R. Schram, C.-T. Shih, L. Watling, G. D. F. Wilson and D. D. Turgeon. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 31. Bethesda, MD. 533 pp.
  124. *2005. Brusca, R. C., L. T. Findley, P. A. Hastings, M. E. Hendrickx, J. Torre Cosio and A. M. van der Heiden. Macrofaunal Biodiversity in the Gulf of California. Pp. 179-203 in J.-L. E. Cartron, G. Ceballos, and R. Felger (eds.), Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico. Oxford University Press, NY. [pdf available at: www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  125. *2005. Whitmore, R. C., R. C. Brusca, J. L. León de la Luz, P. González-Zamorano, R. Mendoza-Salgado, E. S. Amador-Silva, G. Holguin, F. Galván-Magaña, P. A. Hastings, J.-L. E. Cartron, R. S. Felger, J. A. Seminoff, and C. C. McIvor. The ecological importance of mangroves in Baja California Sur: Conservation implications for an endangered ecosystem. Pp. 298-333 in J.-L. E. Cartron, G. Ceballos, and R. S. Felger (eds.), Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation in Northern Mexico. Oxford University Press, NY. [pdf available at: www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  126. 2005. Hendrickx, M. E., R. C. Brusca, and L. T. Findley (eds.). A Distributional Checklist of the Macrofauna of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Part I. Invertebrates. [Listado y Distribución de la Macrofauna del Golfo de California, México, Parte I. Invertebrados]. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Conservation International. 429 pp. [available from the authors or from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, www.desertmuseum.org].
  127. 2005. Brusca, R. C. Where the Desert Meets the Sea. Pp. 20-24 in C. Conte (ed.), Conservation Without Borders. sonorensis, Winter 2005. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/2005_sonorensis-DsrtMtsSea.pdf]
  128. *2006. Glenn, E. P., P. L. Nagler, R. C. Brusca and O. Hinojosa-Huerta. Coastal wetlands of the northern Gulf of California: inventory and conservation status. Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems 16: 5-28. [pdf available at: www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  129. 2006. Brusca, R. C., R. Cudney-Bueno, M. Moreno-Báez. Gulf of California esteros and estuaries: analysis, state of knowledge and conservation priority recommendations. Final Report to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 60 pp., plus two appendices (esteros/estuaries database and Northern Gulf of California Atlas).
  130. 2006. Brusca, R. C. and C. Conte. Rivers in the Sand. Arizona-Sonora Riparian Habitats. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum News 7(2): 2-5.
  131. 2006. Brusca, R. C. Introduction. Pp. 1-3 in C. Conte (ed.), Conservation Without Borders. sonorensis, Winter 2006. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.
  132. *2007. Brusca, R. C. Invertebrate Biodiversity in the Northern Gulf of California. Pp. 418- 504, in, R. S. Felger and W. Broyles (eds.), Dry Borders. Great Natural Reserves of the Sonoran Desert. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. [pdf available at: www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  133. 2007. Brusca, R. C. Peracarida. Pp. 140-144 in, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
  134. *2007. Lluch-Cota, S. E., E. A. Aragón-Noriega, F. Arreguín-Sánchez, D. Aurioles-Gamboa, J. J. Bautista-Romero, R. C. Brusca, R. Cervantes-Duarte, R. Cortés-Altamirano, P. Del-Monte-Luna, A. Esquivel-Herrera,-Cervantes, M. Kahru, M. Lavín, d. Lluch-Belda, D. B Lluch-Cota, J. López-Martinez, S. G. Marinone, M. O. Nevárez-Martinez, S. Ortega-Garcia, E. Palacios-Castro, A. Parés-Sierra, G. Ponce-Diaz, M. Ramírez-Rodriguez, C. A. Salinas-Zavala, R. A. Schwartzlose and a. P. Sierra-Beltrán. The Gulf of California: Review of Ecosystem Status and Sustainability Challenges. Progress in Oceanography 73: 1-26. [pdf available at: www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  135. *2007. Brusca, R.C., V. Coelho and S. Taiti. Isopods, in J. Carlton (ed.) The Light and Smith Manual: The Intertidal Invertebrates of Central California and Oregon. 4th Ed., J. Carlton (ed.). University of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 503-542.
  136. 2007. Equihua Z., Clementina and R. C. Brusca. El Discreto Encanto de las Cochinillas. ?Como Ves?, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 9(107): 30-33. [pdf available at http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/Equihua_and_Brusca_2007.pdf]
  137. *2007. Hendrickx, M. E., R. C. Brusca, M. Cordero and G. Ramírez R. Marine and brackish-water molluscan biodiversity in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Scientia Marina 71(4): 637-647. [pdf available at http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/
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  138. 2007. Brusca, R. C. Father Eusebio Kino, the Baja California Peninsula, and the Sea of Cortez. Pp. 6-13 in, The Legacy of Father Kino (sonorensis). [pdf available at: www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  139. 2007. Brusca, R. C. Harvesting the Sea of Cortez. From Kino's Era to Modern Times. Pp. 42-47 in, The Legacy of Father Kino (sonorensis). [pdf available at: www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/datacite.php]
  140. 2007. Brusca, R. C. and G. J. Brusca. Invertebrados, Segunda Edicão (Portuguese edition). Editora Guanabara Koogan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  141. 2008. Brusca, R. C. and M. Hendrickx. The Gulf of California Invertebrate Database: The Invertebrate Portion of the Macrofauna Golfo Database. www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/database.php
  142. *2009. Brusca, R. C. and I. S. Wehrtmann. Isopods. Pp. 257-267 + species lists No. 20.1 and 20.2 (pages 206-211 on CD-ROM), in I. S. Wehrtmann and J. Cortés (eds.), Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America. Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. 86, Springer, Amsterdam. http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/brusca_wehrtmann.php

IN PRESS

Brusca, R.C. (ed.). The Gulf of California: Biodiversity and Conservation. ASDM Studies in Natural History. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press & University of Arizona Press.

IN PREPARATION

Brusca, R.C. J. Mabry, and P. Hastings. Analysis of aboriginal shell middens and fire sites from Estero Morua, Sonora, Mexico.

Brusca, R.C., J. Kouwenberg, and N. Bruce. A monograph on the isopod family Cirolanidae, including a new phylogenetic-based classification and biogeographic analysis.

Brusca, R.C. Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California, 3rd ed.

Brusca, R.C. Invertebrates, 3rd ed.

Brusca, R.C. (ed.). A Natural History of the Sea of Cortez. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press.

Brusca, R.C. and W. Moore. Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California, 2nd ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.

BILINGUAL CHILDREN'S BOOKS DEVELOPED

Hip Hip, It's Monsoon Day/Ajúa, ya llegó el chubasco. Text by Roni Capin-Ashford; illustrations by Richard Johnsen. Awards: 2007 Best Southwestern Children's Books; 2008 AAAS Science Children's Book Highest Recommendation; 2008 Américas Award for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (University of Wisconsin), Commended Title; 2009 OneBookAZ Award (the Arizona State Libraries "one book that every child in Arizona should read in 2009").

The Little Saguaro/El sahuarito. Text by Shannon Young; illustrations by Kim Duffek. Independent Book Publisher's (IPPY) 2008 Medal for Multicultural Children's Book.

Alice. A Story of Friendship/Alicia. La historia de una amistad. Text by William Verbooten; illustrations by Priscilla Baldwin.

Katie of the Sonoran Desert. Text by Kate Jackson; illustrations by Natalie Rowe.