University of Kansas
Which employer did Lawrence R. Heaney work for from 1975 to 1979?
Lawrence R . Heaney Lawrence Richard Heaney ( born December 2 , 1952 in Washington , DC ) is an American mammalogist , ecologist and biogeographer . His research focus is the mammals of the Philippines . Career . From June 1967 to June 1971 , Heaney was a helper and museum technician at the Department of Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution . From June 1971 to September 1971 , Heaney worked as a collector for the Delaware Museum of Natural History . From June 1972 to June 1975 he was a curator and research associate at the University of Minnesota . From June 1973 to August 1975 he was field and research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution . In June 1975 , Heaney earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota . From August 1975 to May 1979 he was Curatorial Assistant , Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Kansas . In May 1978 , he was awarded a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kansas and , in October 1979 , his Ph.D . From September 1979 to August 1986 , he was assistant professor at the Department of Biology and assistant curator at the Department of Mammals at the Museum of Zoology , University of Michigan . From 1986 to 1988 he was a Research Fellow and since 1988 he has been a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution . Since 1991 he has been a research assistant at the American Museum of Natural History . From 1988 he was curator and since 2002 has been head of the mammalogical department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago , Illinois . In 2008 , Heaney and his colleague Danilo S . Balete rediscovered the Blacktail Luzon Tree Rat ( Pulomys melanurus ) on the Pulag on Luzon , a rodent that had been considered lost for 112 years . Species described . Mammals described by Heaney include , among others , the Tawi-Tawi forest rat ( Rattus tawitawiensis ) , the Palawan Montane squirrel ( Sundasciurus rabori ) , the Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat ( Crateromys australis ) , the Dinagat Gymnure ( Podogymnura aureospinula ) and nine species of Apomys : Apomys aurorae , Apomys banahao , Apomys brownorum , Apomys iridensis , Apomys magnus , Apomys minganensis , Apomys camiguinensis , Apomys lubangensis and Apomys sierrae . Names named after Heaney . In 1996 , Pedro C . Gonzales and Robert S . Kennedy named the Panay Bark Rat ( Crateromys heaneyi ) in his honor . In 1997 , Colin Groves honored Heaney in naming the subspecies Prionailurus bengalensis heaneyi , the Bengal cat from the Philippine island of Palawan . Selected publications . - 1982 Mammals of Dinagat and Siargao islands , Philippines - 1983 Relationships of pocket gophers of the genome Geomys from the Central and Northern Great Plains - 1985 Systematics of Oriental pygmy squirrels of the genera Exilisciurus and Nannosciurus ( Mammalia , Sciuridae ) - 1986 Island biogeography of mammals - 1998 Vanishing treasures of the Philippine rainforest - 2004 Frontiers of biogeography : new directions in the geography of nature - 2006 The mammals and birds of Camiguin Island , Philippines , a Distinctive Center of Biodiversity - 2011 Discovering diversity : studies of the mammals of Luzon Island , Philippines - 2016 The Mammals of Luzon Island . Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna External links . - Lawrence Heaney at LinkedIn - Lawrence R . Heaney : Curriculum Vitae at the Field Museum of Natural History - Lawrence R . Heaney at Google Schola