American–Australian zoologist
Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov (born 9 March 1946)[1] is an American born and educated Australian myriapod specialist. He earned a B.A. from New York University in 1966[1] and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971.[1]
He migrated to Australia in 1973, settling in Tasmania where he became a curatorial assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery[1] in Launceston. He became an Australian citizen in 1976.[1]
Work
His earliest publications were in the field of chemotaxis,[2][3][4] but in 1990–1991, while working as a forest ecology and zoology consultant, he published his first zoological papers, on velvet worms in the family Peripatopsidae).[5][6][7]
In later life he has become increasingly concerned with problems in digital databases, from concerns about inconsistencies and errors in aggregated databases,[8][9] to problems with specimens' GPS coordinates.[10]
His zoological author abbreviation is Mesibov.[11] He has authored over a hundred taxa.[citation needed]
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