Executive Director & Collections Manager
Essig Museum of Entomology
1170 Valley Life Science Building
poboyski@berkeley.edu
+1 510-643-0804 (office)
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RESEARCH
My research interests include the systematics and biogeography of remote Pacific Islands Lepidoptera and trophic interactions (or “who eats who”), for which Lepidoptera, their plant hosts, and their predators and parasitoids, are an ideal model. Much of my fieldwork focuses on arthropod biodiversity surveys, particularly moths, in Hawaii, French Polynesia, and Sulawesi, Indonesia. As collections manager of the Essig Museum of Entomology at UC Berkeley, I also have a strong interest in museum science and biodiversity data management.
PROJECTS
Lepidoptera of French Polynesia (photo gallery)
Biotic Survey of Sulawesi, Indonesia
Hawaiian Tortricidae
Micronesia Tortricidae
OTHER
Insect collecting methods
Gardening for insects
Arthropods of Giant Sequoia trees
Macrophotography
