Please feel free to contact members of the organizing committee if you have any questions.


  • Elizabeth Crockett (Co-Chair), Professor Emerita Ohio University, crockett@ohio.edu

  • Kristin O'Brien, (Co-Chair) Professor University of Alaska Fairbanks, kmobrien@alaska.edu

  • Katharine Barker, Program Manager Global Genome Initiative, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, BarkerK@si.edu

  • Jonathan Coddington, Lead Global Genome Initiative, Senior Research Entomologist and Curator of Arachnida and Myriapoda Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, coddington@si.edu

  • Sarah Eppley, Associate Professor Portland State University, eppley@pdx.edu

  • Nico Franz, Professor and Biocollections Director Arizona State University, nmfranz@asu.edu

  • Bill Fraser, Polar Oceans Research Group, bfraser@3rivers.net

  • Kyndall Hildebrandt, Collection Manager Genomics Resources, University of Alaska Museum of the North, kbhildebrandt@alaska.edu

  • Jill Mikucki, Associate Professor University of Tennessee , jmikucki@utk.edu

  • Bill Moser, Collection Manager Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, moserw@si.edu

  • Thomas Near, Curator of Icthyology Peabody Museum, Yale University, thomas.near@yale.edu

  • Diane Pitassy, Collection Manager Vertebrate Zoology & Fishes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, pitassyd@si.edu

  • Craig Smith, Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa, craigsmi@hawaii.edu