RECENT PROJECTS

• National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution).   Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. Research Collaborator.  Department of Paleobiology. September 1999 to present. Numerous projects on living and fossil arthropods, including aquatic communities.

• The study of amber: collection of modern exudate samples, creation (in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Lambert of Northwestern University) of chemical signatures, identification of ancient amber sources based on modern chemical signatures, and study of ancient environments
  
  
• Reconstructing the ecology of two North American Jurassic aquatic communities preserved in limestone as well as numerous communities worldwide preserved in amber.
  
  
• Studying the molecular phylogeny of Anadenobolus arboreus millipedes from Puerto Rico.

My research seeks to provide answers to this question:

 What processes and patterns of speciation (particularly as they correlate with ecology, behavior, genetics, paleobiology, and others) help explain Earth’s biodiversity and how do organisms relate to one another and to their non-living surroundings?

American Scientist article link

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Santiago-Blay, J. A. and J. B. Lambert. 2007. Amber’s botanical origins uncovered. American Scientist 95:150-157. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/54787 . Reprinted, with permission as, Aux sources de l’ambre. Pour la Science [(Paris, France) French version of Scientific American] 356 (June 2007):70-75.

• Lambert, J. B., Y. Wu, and M. A. Kozminski, and J. A. Santiago-Blay. 2007. Characterization of Eucalyptus and chemically related exudates by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Australian Journal of Chemistry - an International Journal for Chemical Science 60:862-870.

• Lambert, J. B., M. A. Kozminski, C. A. Fahlstrom, and J. A. Santiago-Blay. 2007. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance characterization of resins from the family Pinaceae. Journal of Natural Products  70:188-195.

• Santiago-Blay, J. A.  2006. Marketing mostly intangible goods: the case of botanical gardens and arboreta.  Also, Case Teaching Notes for “Marketing Mostly Intangible Goods: The Case of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta”. Case Studies in Science. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Case Collection. University of Buffalo. Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. http://www.sciencecases.org/garden/garden.asp, http://www.sciencecases.org/garden/garden_notes.asp. (Also at http://www.bgci.org/worldwide/news/0306/)

• Baptista, C., J. A. Santiago-Blay, M. E. Soleglad, and V. Fet. 2006. The Cretaceous scorpion genus, Archaeobuthus,  revisited  (Scorpiones: Archaeobuthidae). Euscorpius 35:1-40.

• Santiago-Blay, J. A. 2005. Keeping those Bugs in Check, or my First Year as Editor of Entomological News: A Personal Perspective. Science Editor (Council of Science Editors, Reston, Virginia, U.S.A.) 28 (May-June):75-76.

• Lambert, J. B. Y. Wu, and J. A. Santiago-Blay. 2005. Taxonomic and chemical relationships revealed by nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of plant exudates.  Journal of Natural Products 68(5):635-648.

• Ferrington, L. F., E. Masteller, and J. A. Santiago-Blay. 2005. Comparison and significance of Chironomidae (Diptera) emergence from Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay, Erie, Pennsylvania, U. S. A.  p. 1. In, Proceedings of the Regional Science Consortium. First Annual Research Symposium. October 6, 2005. Tom Ridge Environmental Center at Presque Isle (Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.). 11 pp.

• Santiago-Blay, J. A. 2004. Leaf-mining chrysomelids. Chapter 26, p. 305-306. Full version in CD portion of the book, 83 pp. In, New developments in the biology of Chrysomelidae. P. Jolivet, J. A. Santiago-Blay, and M. Schmitt (Editors). SPB Academic Publishers bv. The Hague, The Netherlands. 803 pp.

• Santiago-Blay, J. A. 2004. Some aspects of the biology of the Aulacoscelinae, with the description of seven new species of Janbechynea. p. 551. Full version in CD portion of the book, 66 pp. In, New developments in the biology of Chrysomelidae. P. Jolivet, J. A. Santiago-Blay, and M. Schmitt (Editors). SPB Academic Publishers bv. The Hague, The Netherlands. 803 pp. Erratum: On page 551 the title of this chapter, “Some aspects of the biology of the Aulacoscelinae, with the description of three new species of Janbechynea” is in error. An abbreviated version of the paper, emphasizing the description of the new species was published as: Description of seven new species of Janbechynea (Orsodacnidae or Chrysomelidae, sensu lato): availability of new names and corrections. Entomological News 115(2):108-112.
  

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