Spring 2009 - Wayne Maddison In Search of New Species: Spiders in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea April 16th, 2009
Dr. Wayne Maddison, Director of the Beaty Museum, spent part of this past summer in the jungles of Papua New Guinea with the support of Conservation International. Dr. Maddison was searching for new species of jumping spiders,
as part of a team surveying the rich biodiversity of the Papua New
Guinea forests. Amazingly, he found dozens of species new to science.
Want to learn more? Read about the expedition in our Field Notes: Spiders from Papua New Guinea, or watch the full lecture below.
Dr. Wayne Maddison is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Zoology and Botany departments at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. His early interest in spider diversity led to a research career that has taken him from the jungles of South America, Africa and Australasia, to the innards of complex computer programs that look for the echoes of evolutionary history in data from living species.
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