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CHENG, LANNA

Research Biologist

Degrees:

  • B.S., University of Singapore
  • B.S., University of Singapore
  • M.S., University of Singapore
  • Ph.D., Oxford University, U.K.

Research Interests:

  • The ocean insect Halobates
  • Marine insects in general
  • Biodiversity of aquatic insects in Southeast Asia

Honors and Awards:

  • President, Western Society of Naturalists, 1985-1986
  • AAUW International Fellowship, 1971-1972
  • President, Oxford University Malaysian-Singapore Assn., 1967-1968
  • Commonwealth Scholarship, Oxford University, 1965-1968
  • Singapore State Scholarship, 1960-1964

Mentoring:

  • Huang, Danwei (Graduate; 2008-)
  • Tran, Ahn Duc (Graduate; 2005-2007)


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Home Department:
MBRD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0202

Email: lcheng@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/lcheng

Lab Website: http://
WWW: mbrd.ucsd.edu/Research/labs/Cheng

Publications:

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Andersen, N.M. and Cheng, L. 2004. The marine insect Halobates (Heteroptera: Gerridae): Biology, adaptations, distribution and phylogeny. Oceanography nd Marine Biology. An Annual Review 42: 119- 180.

Yang, Chang, Damir Kovac and Lanna Cheng. 2004 Insecta: Hemiptera, Heteroptera. In. Yule, C.M. and Yong, H.S. (Eds.) Freshwater Invertebrates of the Malaysian Region. Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Pp. 457-490.

Lanna Cheng, Chang Man Yang, Daiqin Li & Hongmao Liu 2006. Aquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 54 (2): 203-214.

Cheng, L. 2006 A bug on the ocean waves (Heteroptera, Gerridae, Halobates Eschscholtz ). In. Rabitsch, W. (Ed.) Hug The Bug. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Ernst Heiss. Denisia 19: 1033-1040

Cheng, L. 2008 Nils and Halobates (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Insect systematics and evolution 39: 475-479

Cheng, L, Spear, L. and D.G. Ainsley. 2010. Importance of marine insects (Heteroptera: Gerridae, Halobates spp.) as prey of Eastern Tropical Pacific seabirds. Marine Ornithology, 38 : 91-95.

Cheng, L., M. Baars and A. Smith 2011. Life on the high seas - the bug Darwin never saw. Antenna, 35 (1). 36-42.

Huang, D. and L. Cheng, 2011. The flightless marine midge Pontomyia (Diptera: Chironomidae): ecology, distribution, and molecular phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 14 pp.


Last Modified: Apr 25, 2011