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David Furth

David Furth is the Emeritus Collections Manager and a Research Associate in the Smithsonian’s Department of Entomology. He held similar positions at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. His research involved the systematics and biology of Leaf Beetles. He is also an expert of collections management. He has a Ph.D. (Cornell University), M.S. Ohio State University, and B.A. (Miami University). He has conducted fieldwork and museum work on 6 continents with recent concentration in Mexico and Costa Rica.

The newly opened Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University preserves and displays Israel’s natural heritage. (David Furth, Smithsonian Institution)

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