Myron Shekelle
Myron Shekelle (born March 13, 1964 ) is an American primatologist and anthropologist . His research focus is the goblin lemurs .
Life
From 1979 to 1982 Shekelle graduated from Downers Grove North High School in Downers Grove , Illinois . In 1989 he enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1991 . In 1993 he graduated with a Masters of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri . 2003 was awarded the dissertation Taxonomy and biogeography of Eastern Tarsiers at the same university for Ph.D. PhD in anthropology.
In 2008, he founded the non-profit organization Tarsier.org, which promotes the conservation of biodiversity through scientific studies on tarsier. His projects include scientific field work , applied nature conservation , education and public relations as well as the production of nature films . His research programs deal with reducing biodiversity loss and global climate change through various methods such as phylogeography , phylogenetics , taxonomy , biogeography , bioacoustic indicators for species, conservation policy , conservation breeding and integrated pest management. Shekelle is a member of the IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group, which defines the endangered status of primates on the Red List of Threatened Species .
Since March 2013 he has been a research fellow in the anthropology department at Western Washington University in Bellingham .
From August 2013 to August 2014 he was a professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul , South Korea, where he headed the Primate Research Institute for Cognition and Ecology (PRINCE). In October 2014, Shekelle founded the National Institute of Ecology in Seocheon-gun County in South Korea, where he was a senior research fellow until December 2014.
Shekelle has conducted research projects in Brunei , Cambodia , Indonesia , South Korea , Laos , Malaysia , Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , the United States and Vietnam .
In 2005 he discovered the rare Siau tarsier ( Tarsius tumpara ) on the Indonesian island of Siau in the Sangihe Islands , which he first described in 2008 in collaboration with Colin Groves , Stefan Merker and Jatna Supriatna. In the same year he succeeded in rediscovering the pygmy tarsier ( Tarsius pumilus ) on Sulawesi , a species that had not been seen alive for 70 years. In 2017, together with Groves, Ibnu Maryanto and Russell Mittermeier, he described Jatnas Koboldmaki ( Tarsius supriatnai ) and the Koboldmaki species Tarsius spectrumgurskyae . Based on a revision of the tarsier in 2010, in collaboration with Groves, he established the monotypical genus Carlito for the Philippine tarsier , which originally belonged to the genus Tarsius .
Web links
- Official website of Myron Shekelle
- LinkedIn profile
- His endangered find: Local scientist works to promote conservation and save primate he discovered (Article about the discovery of the Siau Koboldmakis and about Shekelle's career)
Individual evidence
- ↑ C. Groves, M. Shekelle: The genera and species of Tarsiidae . International Journal of Primatology. 31 (6), 2010, pp. 1071-1082
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| SURNAME | Shekelle, Myron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American primatologist and anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1964 |