"The Lewis and Clark Grant allowed me to travel to Australia to collect and observe a rare and cryptic group of spiders found only there.  I spent six weeks collecting assassin spiders from coastal habitats in the southwest and also in montane areas along the east coast."  Hannah Wood's field work in Australia will contribute to the broader goal of her dissertation research, which is to understand the evolutionary relationships between the living and extinct clades of assassin spiders found throughout the world.  Ms. Wood is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.  (Lewis and Clark Grant)