Davis, Gayle

Snell, Heidi M.

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26 NOTICIAS DE GALAPAGOS No.56
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cies conservation. Bioscience 31:131-134.
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]ul. 1991. Chronology of Holocene vertebrate extinction in
the Galápagos Islands. Quaternary Research 36:126-1'33.
Templeton, A. R. and B. Read. 1984. Inbreeding: one word,
several meanings, much confusion. In: Conseruation Genetics
(eds. Löschke,V.,l. Tomiuk andS. K. Iain). pp 91-105.
January
- Fishermen closed the entrance of CDRS & SPNG for 4
days.
- Gerald Wellington, Univ. Houston, Benjamin Victor &
Mark Meekan, assistants arrived to study reef fish.
- The annual flamingo census took place.
- Sabine Tebbich began a study of Woodpecker finches.
- Sandra Guetrero, Catholic Univ. Ibarra volunteered in
Environmental Education.
- SharonVirtue, librarian, IJniv. Toronto volunteered for
two weeks in the CDRS library.
- Mark jordan, Univ. New Mexico & Sarah Bouchard
Kalamazoo College, MI, arrived to work with Howard
& Heidi Snell on the lava lizard study. Monica Calvopiña
& Cassie Holman completed the group.
- Peter & Rosemary Grant, Princeton LJniv., arrived to
continue their studies of Darwin's finches.
- ]orge Gómez-]urado joined Marine Investigations as a
Technical Assistant.
- Milton Arsiniegas, Technical Univ. Esmeraldas arrived
as a thesis student in Botany.
- David Hicks, Manchester College, IN spent his sabbatical
in Botany working on the status of Opuntia.
- Gary McMurtry, Fraser Goff, Univ. Hawaii, & James
Sitmac,Los Alamos NationalLab., Nl\4;Alfredo Roldan,
National Electronics Institution Guatemala, & Rosemary
Andrade, Univ. Guayaquil, made a geologic study on
Sierra Negra.
-lanuary 24th Fernandina erupted near Cabo Hammond.
- Peruvian troops trespassed into Ecuadorian territory
provoking a war & disrupting both countries. Effect in
Galápagos was increased patrolling activity.
- CDRS personelpresented a Quarantine Workshop held
in San Cristóbal.
- Tomato & papaya plants found growing in the fishermen
camps on Fernandina were eliminated.
Trillmich, F. 1991. El Niño in the Galápagos Islands: a natural
experiment. In: SCOPE 45 (eds. Mooney, H. A. and D.
Schulze). Chichester, Wiley & Sons Ltd. pp 3-21,.
Tritlmich, F. 1992. Conservation problems on Galápagos: the
showcase of evolutionindanger. NaturwissenschaftenT9:1-
6.
Kornelia Rassmanry School of Biological Sciences; Uni-
versity of Wales, Bangor; Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW;
Great Britain, email: k.rassmann@.bangor.ac.uk.
February
- Anna Fitter, Galápagos Conservation Trust of England
visited.
- Verónica Toral, Cuenca Univ., volunteered in Marine
Biology.
- Sabina Estupiñán, Univ. Luis Vargas Torres, Esmeraldas,
voltmteered in Botany.
- Olav Oftedal, National Zoo,Wash. DC, & Frank Allen,
continued work with the captive reptile program.
- Washington Tapia began thesis work on Isabela tortoises.
- The war between Peru & Ecuador ended.
- Jack Kepper, Canadian Fund & Alfredo Carrasco, CDF
Quito, visited the Station.
- Rosemary Andrade volunteered for the Snell/Jordan
lavalizardstudies before returning to Univ. Guayaquil.
- Bruce Kernan USAID & Alfredo Carrasco checked
projects andworked ona Marinelnvestigationproposal.
- Fernandina continued erupting.
March
- Alegría Mejía & Olga Quevedo,IJniv. Guayaquil, arrived
to volunteer in Protection & Monitoring.
- Daniel Evans, former Director of CDRS, visited with a
group from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Calif.
- Roger Tinoco, Inspector National InstitutionMeteorology
& Hydrology gave a course to the personnel of CDRS.
- Verónica Toral represented Ecuador / CDRS at the World
Forum for Youth & Development in Israel.
- The National Television of Japan (NHK) made a live
telecast from Galápagos from several locations.
- Hugo Valdebenito, Günther Reck & students, Univ. San
Francisco Quito, arrived for an ecology course.
- Gustavo Yturralde, Univ. Guayaquil began assisting
Mark Jordan with studies of lava ltzards.
VISITORS AND EVENTS AT THE CHARLES DARWIN
RESEARCH STATION, 1.995
Compiled by: Heidi Snell and Gayle Davis
March 1996 NOTICIAS DE GALAPAGOS 27
April
- Chantal Blanton left for the London CDF meetings.
- Helene Collombat, Pierre Rochette, ORSTOM & Pablo
Samaniego, Quito, studied paleomagnetism.
- Heye Rumohr, Univ. Kiel, Germany gave a Marine
Monitoring course.
- Yoshikazu Shimizu, Univ. Komazawa, Tokyo, and
assistant Santiago Buitrón, IJniv. San Francisco, studied
the impact of introduced plants on Scnlesia & native
plants.
- Hal Whitehead, Linda Weilgart & children arrived in
their yacht B alena,with assistants Katherine Payne, Jenny
Cristal, Sascha Hooker & Shannon Gowans, Dalhousie
Univ. Canada to study sperm whale behavior. Graciela
Monsalve, CDRS & Flip Nicklin, National Geographic,
joined the 1st trip. The 2nd trip Godfrey Merlen
captained, Francis Nicolaides, Nat. Fisheries Institute &
]immy Peñaherrera, CDRS joined the group.
- Karen Rogers, Robin Rutledge, Robert Long, Scott
Dummler, Stephen Kennedy & William Tidwell,
Monsanto Co., evaluated results of "Round-LJp"
experiments on introduced plants. They also prepared
a film on the use of herbicides for weed control.
- James Gibbs, Yale Univ., studied tortoise genetics.
- DavidAnderson, Wake ForestUniv. joinedhis Española
field camp for studies of albatross & boobies.
Muy
- Edison Encalada volunteered in Protection.
- Nelson Zabala, Carlos Valle & students, Univ. San
Francisco Quito, arrived for an ecology course.
- ScottShouse, US PeaceCorp, arrivedfortheAgroforestry
Program on Isabela.
- Peter Glynn, Susan Theodosiou, IJniv. Miami, ]oshua
Feingold, Univ. Nova, & Rafael Menoscal, Polytechnical
School, studied El Niño effects on Galápagos corals.
- Cleveland Hickman, William Ober, Larry Hurd & 14
students, Univ. Wash. & Lee, censused littoral zone
invertebrates & made a study of a sea cucumber
systematics.
- The CDRS research vesselBeøglelnad repairs completed
& made the first voyage of the year.
- PeterHodum, Univ. of Dalhousie, joined HalWhitehead.
- Carlos Beltrán volunteered in the Computer Center.
- Duncan Porter worked in the CDRS Herbarium.
- Craig MacFarland, President of CDF, visited CDRS.
- Heidi (Captain) & Howard Snell, Marco Altamirano &
Eric Craig, Univ. New Mexico, arrived at Española
aboard Prima after a 3-day sail from Salinas, Ecuador.
- Chantal Blanton attended meetings in Quito.
- Pâüaig Whelan joined CDRS personel for Quarantine
meetings on several islands.
- Napoleón Vargas, arrived to be the CDRS Manager.
June
-AdelaidaHerrera ex-volunteer CDRS & RonSjostedt ex-
Peace Corp, were married.
- Jennifer Grace, Univ. New Mexico arrived as a field
assistant for the Snell's.
- Conley McMullen, W. Liberty College, WV
photographed plants for a plant guidebook.
- Terry Naumann, Univ. Idaho & assistant Rommel
YiTlagírnez, Polytechnic School conducted a geologic
study on Isabela.
- Napoleón Vargas became the CDRS Subdirector.
- Robert Miller, Univ. New Mexico joined the Snell's.
Iuly
- Don Miles, Ohio State Univ., joined the Snell's to study
speed & endurance of lava Tizards.
- Dennis Geist, Jeff Standish&RobertReyrold,Univ. Idaho
joined Terry Naumann for geological studies.
- Goats were found on top of Volcan Wolf, northern Isabela
by Geist's geologic team.
- Gillian Key, Metropolitan Univ. Manchester, IJK,
discussed future plans for rodent studies.
- Kornelia Rassmann, Univ. N. Wales, UK, arrived to
continue the genetic study of land & marine iguanas.
- Robert Dowler, Darin Carroll, Angelo State Univ., TX &
assistant Diana Yit:rueza, Univ. Guayaquil, arrived to
study endemic rats on Fernandina.
- María Soledad Luna, Univ. San Francisco, Quito,
volunteered in Public Relations.
- Syuzo ltow, Univ. Nagasaki, & Ondina Landazuri,
Central Univ. Quito, studied endemic & introduced
plants.
- Fernando Ortiz, Fundacyt, gave information for
scholarship students.
- Carla Abrams, US volunteer student began studies on
Matazarno trees in the National Park.
- Alfredo Carrasco & Canadian Fund representatives
visited.
August
- Ed Louis, Texas A&M & joe Flannagan, HoustonZoo,
arrived for the tortoise genetics study.
- Lâzaro Roque volunteered as Museum Curator.
- Hernán Vargas became the CDRS Ornithologist.
- Monica Soria & Paola Buitrón volunteered at CDRS.
- PoolSegarra, CatholicUniv. Quito arrived as avolunteer
for Monitoring.
- Chantal Blanton traveled to Quito for several days of
CDF related meetings.
- Linda Cayot attended the wedding of her niece, Maryn
McFarland to her student, Milton Yacelga.
28 NOTICIAS DE GALAPAGOS No.56
September
- Goats were seen on Pinta, SPNG began eradication.
- CDRS access was blockaded & the SPNG offices on all
islands were invaded for two weeks.
- Representatives of the AmericanConsulinGuayaquil &
Embassy, Quito arrived to assess the local situation.
- Long-time CDRS employee, Amaldo Tupiza Cham aidan,
died in an accident on Isabela.
- Thenew Tortoise Center onlsabelawas officiallynamed
in honor of Arnaldo Tupiza Chamaidan.
- Martin Wikilski, Univ. Washington & Corina Thom, Jesko
Partecke, Germany & Lorena Zarnbrano & Cristóbal
Alarcon, Univ. Guayaquil arrived to continue the studies
of marine iguanas on Santa Fe.
- US Ambassador to Ecuador, Peter Romero and group
met briefly in Puerto Ayora & Villamil then circled
Isabela with Priscilla Martinez, CDRS on the military
launch 25 de lulio.
- Maryn McFarland returns to CDRS as a volunteer.
- 
jacinto Gordillo received the 1995 Ecuadorian Planeta
Azul award.
October
- Friedeman Köster filmed on Plazas.
-The WorldFestival of Birds was celebratedinthe islands
promoted by the CDRS.
- María Soledad Luna became a volunteer for Public
Relations.
- CDF meetings were held in Guayaquil.
- David Anderson, Ana Agreda, Tatiana Santander, Luis
Y inueza,Leslie Clifford, and Kate Fluyvaert began their
studies on boobies, albatross and Opuntia on Española.
- David Steadman, Univ. Florida and Winter Vera CDRS,
collected subfossial material from Floreana.
- A group from the Harbour Branch Institute arrived for
marine prospecting and studies of deep water fish.
November
- Craig MacFarland, President CDF and Alfredo Carrasco,
CDF Quito visited CDRS.
- Clnthia Palmer, US. Dept. of Energy, assessed theisland's
solid waste problems.
- María Elena Guerra began as Administrative Assistant.
- A group funded by USAID arrived for a consultancy on
a potential Galápagos shipyard.
- Miguel Casares and Beatrix Scharman, ZurichZoobegan
work on the reproductive cycle of tortoises.
- Evelyn Schulle, a Swiss volunteer beganhelping inPublic
Relations.
- Sacha Jalink arrived to volunteer for a month in Public
Relations.
December
- Sabine Tebbich and Birgit Fessl, Austria began a
Carpenter finch study on Santa Cruz.
- Diane Davies, SaraThompsonandMaria ClaraEspinosa,
Univ. Calif. Santa Cruz arrivedwithinformationpanels.
- Peter and Rosemary Grant continued their studies on
Darwin's finches.
Heidi M. Snell, RIV Primø, c/o Estación Científica
Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora,Isla Santa Crluz,Galâpa-
gos, Ecuador; hsnell@-fcdarwin.org.ec; Gayle Davis,
Estación Científica Charles Darwin, gdavis@-
fcdarwin.org.ec.


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