Richard C. Brusca is a marine biologist, conservation ecologist, and Southwestern naturalist (see www.rickbrusca.com). He is also an essayist and author of two novels: a Homeric historical fiction epic "In the Land of the Feathered Serpent" (www.featheredserpent.online) and a novel about the Aztec Empire and modern-day Mexico City and a tweak in time that brings the two together ("The Time Travelers"). Rick’s area of greatest research interest is the Sea of Cortez and the Sonoran Desert. He is Executive Director, Emeritus, of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and a Research Scientist at the University of Arizona. He is also the author of over 200 research publications and a dozen books, including the largest-selling text on invertebrate zoology ("Invertebrates," Oxford University Press; available in four languages) and the popular field guides "Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California," "A Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California," and "A Natural History the Santa Catalina Mountains, with an Introduction to the Madrean Sky Islands." His books have won many awards, including Best Textbook of the Year, Southwest Book of the Year, and the coveted Tabasco Best Southwest Cookbook Award (for a cookbook he developed, edited and produced for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum). Rick has been the recipient of more than 100 research grants from the National Science Foundation, NOAA, National Geographic Society, Charles Lindberg Foundation, National Park Service, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and many other agencies and foundations. He has served on panels and boards for many foundations and agencies, including the National Science Board, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, NOAA, PEW Program in Conservation and the Environment, Public Broadcasting Service, IUCN Species Survival Commission, U.S. Department of the Interior, and others. He has served on more than a dozen non-profit boards and helped found three nonprofits. Although he has organized and conducted field expeditions throughout the world, in over 50 countries and on every continent, he has maintained his research programs in the Sonoran Desert and the Gulf of California for more than 40 years. He is a National Geographic Explorer and a recipient of the U.S. Department of Defense Civilian Service Medal. Rick is an elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Linnean Society of London (FLS), and the California Academy of Sciences.
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