Amanda Buck

Amanda joined the database team in May 1998. She graduated in 2001 with a degree in Actuarial Science at the University of Illinois.

She became our resident RangeMapper™ expert and plotted distributions of specimens from information exported from MANDALA. Her distribution maps may be found in the keys to the species of Chromolepida, Megalinga, and Nebritus.

Amanda, Joe Dunlop, J. Marie Metz, and Gail Kampmeier presented a poster at the 1999 Entomological Society of America meetings in Atlanta, GA entitled: "Specimen Label Eccentricities from Antiquity to the Present." It was such a hit that it was also presented at the National Science Foundation PEET III meeting at the Smithsonian Institution in March 2000.

Amanda prepared a web version of this classic tale, told by Stu Dent