Office: 1282 Academic Surge
Phone: (530)754-5803 
Lab: (530)754-5804
Email: pscranston@ucdavis.edu Fax: (530)754-5804

Peter S. Cranston, Ph.D.

Professor of Entomology

Education:

B.Sc. (Honours) Biology, University of London, U.K.

Ph.D Entomology, University of London, U.K.

Appointment:

25% Instruction and Research 
75% Organized Research

Teaches:  Systematic entomology; Biodiversity

Grad students: Shelah Morita,  Dani DuCharme

Research Interests:
Systematics, ecology and biogeography of aquatic insects, particularly the Chironomidae (non-biting midges).

Chironomidae web site:

http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/chiropage/

Full publication list and some pdf links at: http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/chiropage/publications.htm

Selected Publications:

1.  Gullan, P.J. and Cranston, P.S. (2000) The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. 2nd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford. 470 pp + appendix. 

2.  Armitage, P. Cranston, P.S. and Pinder, L.C.V. (eds.) (1994) Chironomidae: Biology and Ecology of Non-biting Midges, edited by Chapman and Hall, London, Glasgow, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Madras, pp. 572. 

3.  Ben Gunn, J.W.H. Trueman and P.S. Cranston (1999) Interactive Guide to Australian Aquatic Invertebrates - Windows version 2.0. CSIRO Entomology, Canberra. 

4.  Cranston, P.S. & Edward, D.H.D. (1998) Afrochlus Freeman - an African gondwanan midge, and the phylogeny of the Podonominae (Diptera; Chironomidae). Systematic Entomology 23, 77-90. 

5.  Cranston , P.S., Cooper, P.D., Hardwick, R.A., Humphrey, C.L. and Dostine, P.L. (1997). Tropical acid streams - the chironomid (Diptera) response in northern Australia. Freshwater Biology, 37, 473-483.

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