Education

B.S. University of Texas at Arlington (1977). Biology
M. Ag. Texas A & M University (1979). Wildlife Sciences

Research Interests

Responsible for supervision of collection management activities, including accessions, loans, information requests, assisting visitors, cataloging, and specimen installations. Interests in collection management, collection conservation, and specimen preparation.

Selected Publications

McNair, D. B., and J. P. Dean. 2003. Distributional Information on Birds from Egg Sets Collected by Henry Rogers Durkee in 1870 in Southwestern Wyoming. Western North American Naturalist 63(3):320-332. (PDF)

Fanning, T. G., R. D. Slemons, A. H. Reid, T. A. Janczewski, J. Dean, and J. K. Taubenberger. 2002. 1917 Avian Influenza Virus Sequences Suggest that the 1918 Pandemic Virus Did Not Acquire Its Hemagglutinin Directly from Birds. Journal of Virology 76(15):7860-7862. (PDF)