Wim Vader

Wim Vader
Senior curator (førstekonservator) and professor of Zoology
Address:
Tromsø Museum, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
Phone: (+47) 776 45009
Fax: (+47) 776 45520
E-mail: Wim.Vader@tmu.uit.no

Research
1. Amphipods (Amphipoda Gammaroidea) of the NE Atlantic and Norwegian Arctic: taxonomy, biology, and faunistics. Dr. scient. student Jørgen Berge works on a worldwide revision and cladistic analysis of the family Stegocephalidae.
2. Development and publication of a database on the taxonomy, ditribution and biology of Barents Sea region amphipods, in cooperation with prof. Valery Bryazgin (Petrozavodsk). See our checklist (Vader & Bryazgin 1998)
3. Development of illustrated and interactive identification keys for amphipods.
4. ccurrence, biology and adaptations of amphipods living in association with other marine animals, particularly Coelenterata and Crustacea. Fieldwork for these projects have been carried out in California, SE Australia, and S.Africa
5. Maintenance of a database on amphipod literature and publication of Amphipod Newsletter. This database (on Endnote) is available to colleagues.
6. Faunistics of various invertebrates and fishes in northern Norway.



Publications
Scientific articles

Popularization, abstracts, short notes, etc.

Email notes on seasons and birdlife in the Tromsø area (and elsewhere)


Collections
Is in charge of the collections of marine invertebrates, molluscs, and vertebrates at Tromsø Museum. They consist of ca 40 000 samples of invertebrates, most conserved in alcohol, and about 8000 samples of Vertebrates (i.a. 4500 birds and bird eggs, and 2000 fishes), mainly from northern Norway and the adjacent seas, and from Arctic regions. Of special interest are the collections of Bivalvia, brought together by former curator Tron Soot-Ryen, and the amphipod collections, in part stemming from our first curator Jakob Sparre Schneider.


Tromsø Museum is giving priority to computerizing the collection data bases, but until now only the Vertebrata, Amphipoda, Echinodermata and Bryozoa have been finished.

Exhibitions
Have a look at the exhibitions at the museum of Tromsø.

Teaching
Has since 1976 taught the annual course Systematics/Evolution at the University in Tromsø, and has written a compendium (in Norwegian).