Home Page of Rod Crawford Curator of Arachnids The Burke Museum University of Washington Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195-3010 Voice (206) 543-9853 Fax (206) 685-3039 Email:

This page may incorporate something more substantive in the future, but at present it's mainly a placeholder. For the benefit of anyone who happens to find it, I include some links to info about myself. My UW position is curator of the arachnids and related research collections at The Burke Museum.

Here is my Short Curriculum Vitae at the Community of Science.

These pages are hosted at the museum:

•  The Spider Myths Site
  
•  Arachnology at the Burke Museum
  
•  Spider Curation Techniques  (PDF for download)
  
•  Links about Spiders
  

These pages are hosted privately:

•  Checklist of Washington Spiders
  
•  Spider Collector's Journal
  
•  Bug of the Month
  
•  Biography of Melville H. Hatch (my mentor)
  
•  Biography of Clarence E. Crawford (my father)
  

I am also affiliated with:

•  Scarabs: The Bug Society (editor of newsletter, "Scarabogram")
  
•  Friends of Campus Cats
  
•  MEOW Cat Rescue
  
•  Purrfect Pals Cat Rescue
  
•  Okhotskia (Biological Survey Projects in Far Eastern Russia)
  

I am available for public speaking and expert witness work on the subject of spiders.

This page last updated 11 April, 2012