Healy heads up the team at the Cal Academy's Center for Biodiversity Research & Information ( CBRI ). She received her masters degree in Environmental Science from Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley Dept of Integrative Biology in 2001. She is an Adjunct professor in the Dept of Geography at San Francisco State University .

Hamilton, H. , Caballero, S., Trujillo , F., da Silva, V.M.F., Martin, A.R., Rosel, P.E., Chaplin, G. & P.J.

Palsboll. Phylogeography of the Amazon river dolphin Inia geoffrensis : Implications for the origins of

neotropical diversity. Evolution , submitted.

Sasaki , T., Nikaido, M., Hamilton , H ., Goto, M., Kato, H., Kanda, N., Pastene, L.A. , Cao, Y., Hasegawa, M.,

Fordyce, R.E. & N. Okada. Mitochondrial phylogenetics and evolution of mysticete whales.

Systematic Biology, in press

Teske, P.R., Hamilton , H. , Palsbøll, P.J., Choo, C.K., Gabr, H., Lourie , S.A. , Santos , M., Sreepada, A., Cherry, M.I. & C.A. Matthee. Molecular evidence suggests that long-distance colonization, low inter- population connectivity, and population expansions are driving speciation in an Indo-Pacific seahorse lineage. Marine Ecology Progress Series, in press

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Lázaro, M, Lessa, E.P. & H. Hamilton . 2004. Geographic genetic structure in the franciscana dolphin

( Pontoporia blainvillei ). Marine Mammal Science 20(2):201-214.

Hamilton , H. , Caballero, S., Collins, A.G. & R.L. Brownell, Jr. 2001. Evolution of river dolphins.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , Series B: Biological Sciences. 268 : 549-556 PDF

Caballero, S., Hamilton , H. , Jaramillo, C., Capella, J., Florez-Gonzalez, L., Olavarria, C., Rosenbaum, H.,

Guhl, F., & C.S. Baker. 2001. Genetic characterization of the Colombian Pacific Coast humpback whale population using RAPD and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum , Australia 47 (2):459-464.

Nikaido, M, Matsuno, F, Abe, H, Shimamura, M, Hamilton , H, Matsubayashi, H, & N. Okada. 2001.

Evolution of CHR-2 SINEs in cetartiodactyl genomes: possible evidence for monophyletic origin of toothed whales. Mammalian Genome 12 :909-15

Nikaido, M., Matsuno, F., Hamilton, H. , Cao, Y., Brownell Jr., R.L., Ding, W., Zuoyan, Z., Shedlock, A.M.,

Hasegawa, M., & Okada, N. 2001. Retroposon analysis of major cetacean lineages: the monophyly of toothed whales and the paraphyly of river dolphins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (13):7384-7389. PDF

Caballero, S., Hamilton , H ., Flórez-González, L., Capella, J., Olavarría, C.,Rosenbaum, H.C and C.S. Baker.

2000. Stock identity and diversity of humpback whale mitochondrial DNA lineages on the Colombian winter breeding grounds .Report to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission SC/52IA14.