Homepage of James E. O'Hara, Ph.D.

Contact details
Dr. James E. O'Hara
Invertebrate Biodiversity
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
Telephone: 613-759-1795
Fax: 613-759-1927
E-mail: oharaj@agr.gc.ca

Education

• Ph.D. (Entomology) 1987 - University of Alberta, Edmonton.
• M.Sc. (Entomology) 1981 - University of Alberta, Edmonton.
• B.Sc. (Honours Biology) 1978 - Carleton University, Ottawa.

Current Research Projects

• Various systematic studies on the Tachinidae.
• Review of the tachinid parasitoids of Choristoneura species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with keys to adults and puparia.
• Development of Tachinidae website.

Expertise

• Primarily systematics of parasitic flies of the family Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera).

Professional Activities

• 2003 - present: Webmaster, North American Dipterists Society website.
• 2002 - present: Council member, International Congresses of Dipterology.
• 2002 - present: Member, Library Committee, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Ottawa.
• 2002: Co-chair, Oestroidea Section, Fifth International Congress of Dipterology, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
• 1998 - present: Special Graduate Faculty member, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph.
• 1998: Chair, Tachinidae Section, Fourth International Congress of Dipterology, Oxford University, Oxford.
• 1997-2003: Chair, Finance Committee, Entomological Society of Canada.
• 1996-2003: Study Leader, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Ottawa.
• 1996-1998: Secretary and Treasurer of the Canacoll Foundation.
• 1995: Invited NSF sponsored visiting curator, Entomology Department, Texas A&M University.
• 1994 - present: Member, Dipterology Fund Committee.
• 1994: Chair, Tachinidae Section, Third International Congress of Dipterology, University of Guelph, Guelph.
• 1992-1996: Chair, Handbook Committee, Insects and Arachnids of Canada series.
• 1990-1994: Member, Organizing Committee for the Third International Congress of Dipterology, University of Guelph, Guelph.
• 1988 - present: Editor, The Tachinid Times newsletter.
• 1987: Co-coordinator of Scientific Program, Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Alberta, Drumheller.

Publications

• Over 80 research, miscellaneous and electronic publications, mostly on tachinid flies. To see a list of these publications, click here.

Last update: 21 March 2004
J.E. O'Hara

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