Jessica Ware

Odonata: Dragonflies

NSF Post-doctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology

EOL Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology

Jessica Ware is an NSF postdoctoral fellow currently working at the American Museum of Natural History on the systematics of lower termites. She graduated with a PhD from Rutgers University in 2008, where her thesis focused on molecular and morphological phylogenetics of libelluloid dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera: Libelluloidea). In addition to systematics, Jessica is also interested in dragonfly flight behavior and the biomechanics of flight. While at Rutgers, Jessica won several presentation awards at national and international meetings, and was awarded both the Comstock Award and Snodgrass Memorial Award from the Entomological Society of America in the fall of 2008. In addition to her postdoctoral project, Jessica has collaborative projects underway on the systematics of dragonflies (Synlestidae, Petaluridae, and Corduliidae), grasshoppers (Loryma) and termites (generic revision of Zootermopsis).