North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Arthur Bogan

Research Curator of Aquatic Invertebrates

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Zoology, NC State University, Raleigh, NC

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College Veterinary Medicine, NC State University, Raleigh, NC

Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Dr. Bogan is a malacologist specializing in freshwater mussel taxonomy, distribution, conservation and evolution. He earned his Ph.D. in Zooarchaeology, an interdisciplinary program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Bogan worked 12 years in the Mollusk Section at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA), where he was in charge of computerization, collection management, and research. Since 1996, He has been Research Curator of Aquatic Invertebrates at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, NC), focusing on freshwater mussels of the six families of the Unionoida. He holds adjunct faculty appointments in North Carolina State University’s Zoology Department and Department of Population Health and Pathobiology (College of Veterinary Medicine) and the Department of Geology, University of North Dakota. His academic training included Washington State University (BA, Anthropology); Florida State University (Graduate work); University of Tennessee, Knoxville (MA, Zooarchaeology); University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Ph.D., Zooarchaeology). Art has worked in 26 countries around the world on freshwater mollusks.

He is the author /co-author of 174 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and 5 books, 61 technical reports on the taxonomic status, distribution and life history of freshwater mussels. Dr. Bogan has presented 20 workshops and 4 week-long classes training students and state and federal agency biologists on identification, biology and conservation issues of freshwater bivalves. He has served on 5 MS and 4 Ph.D. committees. He has worked with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature assessing the freshwater mollusk fauna of the Indo-Burma area. He developed a memorandum of understanding between NCSM and the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi and has made two field trips (2010, 2012) surveying the mussel fauna of northern Vietnam.
He is the proud father of two sons Sean and Ian. Sean served five years in the US Navy and is a student at Savannah College of Art and Design; Ian is currently serving in the US Navy.