About This Site and Myself

With this site redesign, the focus has shifted from "Land Snails of BC" to "Land Snails of Canada". This is partly to improve the site navigation by making BC Snails a subsection of Canada Snails (and not the other way around, as in the past), and partly to reflect my broading interests in all terrestrial molluscs Canada-wide.

I am a graphic designer by trade but have been fascinated by the molluscs of British Columbia, Canada, since a very young age. Beginning in 1990, I have studied terrestrial molluscs of the province and more recently have almost exclusively focused on the terrestrial fauna. While living in Victoria, I volunteered at the Royal BC Museum, later becoming a research associate and participating in field surveys with museum staff.

In 2004 my book, Land Snails of British Columbia, was published; the idea for the project was begun in 1994 or 1995 and was expedited by my association with the Royal BC Museum. A list of my other publications is available on this site.

I maintain comprehensive, but compact, reference collection, mostly from BC, but also from other places. I'm always willing to share my data with interested parties. A substantial number of additional material that I has been deposited in the Invertebrate Zoology Collection of the Royal BC Museum. For data on these collections, contact the RBCM.

Past projects and fieldwork

Contributed data, section on terrestrial molluscs to E-Fauna BC, June 2006, and ongoing.

Fieldwork (2003) and Living Landscapes/Royal BC Museum reports completed (2005): Upper Fraser Basin & Peace River - Northern Rockies. URL: www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca.

Fieldwork (2004) in northwestern BC, for the RBCM., along the Cassiar and Alaska highways.

Land Snails of British Columbia completed 2004.

Fieldwork in northeastern BC, Living Landscapes/Royal BC Museum.

Field work in southeastern BC with the RBCM; rediscovery of Gastrocopta holzingeri in BC.

Co-author of four COSEWIC status reports on land snails and slugs (2001-2002).

Fieldwork (2001) in the northern Fraser drainage, Living Landscapes/Royal BC Museum.

Member of the Mollusca Species Specialist Subcommittee, a subcommittee of Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (2001-present).

Employee, Biolinx Environmental Research Ltd., Sidney, BC (1999-2000): terrestrial gastropod identification and fieldwork related to a forest-litter biodiversity monitoring project (terrestrial gastropods as indicators of fauna in relation to forest-harvesting practices.

Co-participant, with K. Ovaska (2000) in surveys for potentially threatened terrestrial gastropods (funded, in part, by the World Wildlife Fund.

Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia report completed (1999). Living Landscapes/Royal BC Museum. URL: www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/.

Volunteer, RBCM (1998-2002): collection identification and curation.

My start of extensive field work throughout British Columbia: 1990.

Affiliations, memberships

Mollusca Species Specialist Subcommittee, COSEWIC
Research Associate, Royal BC Museum (RBCM), Victoria
Member, American Malacological Society
Member, Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Member, Dutch Malacological Society

My publications

These are listed here.