Guy Hanley is the Cyril Moore Science Center Curator of Collections. He specializes in scientific collections curation / management, with emphasis in entomology, paleontology, and biological specimen preparation. Besides caring for the numerous collections held by the CMSC, he also develops all exhibits in the CMSC museum, provides technical support for the Division of Science, and is the administrator of the CMSC Webserver.

Guy's research projects include faunal studies of North Dakota Coleoptera, skeletal preparation methods, and digital imaging techniques for use in scientific publication. Guy worked extensively with Dr. Ron Royer, providing all prepared butterfly specimen images in digital format for the second edition of the "Butterflies of North Dakota." and has authored the third science monograph for the Division of Science titled "Cerambycidae of North Dakota". Cerambycid beetles are commonly known as "longhorn" beetles because of their greatly elongated antennae, and are of economic importance because of their association with forests and the lumber industry. Guy's research discovered nine new state species records and multiple new county distribution records.

Other active projects include a faunal study of ground dwelling Coleoptera caught during operation of a large herpetological drift fence array, and publication of a field guide to the silphid beetles of North Dakota.

Guy's teaching experience includes environmental and physical geology labs, entomology, and numerous presentations to other campus classes. Guy has served on the North Central Science Olympiad planning committee, is an advisor for AUGITE, the Minot State geology club, was board president of the Friends of the Northwest Art Center for four years, and is currently working with the City of Minot Forestry Department in identification of tree and shrub insect pests.

Guy's other interests include furniture construction and refinishing, home remodeling, competition archery and motorcycling. Guy currently owns the fastest production motorcycle in the world, the Suzuki GSX 1300R Hayabusa.

Publications, Presentations and Research:

Hanley, Guy A, D.Cuthrell, J. Fauske, 2008. Carrion beetles of North Dakota, an atlas and identification Guide, MSU Science Monograph #4, In preparation.

Hanley, Guy A. Silphidae collected during a drift fence herpetological study in north central North Dakota, including new occurrences of Thanatophilus sagax. accepted in Prairie Naturalist, Fall 2007.

Photography and image manipulation for Karew Schumaker and Allen J. Kihm, 2006, Multituberculates from the Medicine Pole Hills local fauna (Chadronian) of Bowman County, North Dakota. Paludicola, Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Hanley, Guy A, 2005. Cerambycidae of North Dakota, an atlas and identification Guide, Cyril Moore Science Center Science Monograph #3, Minot State University.

Photography and image manipulation for Mikhail M. Bobylev, 2004. Extraction of caffeine from tea: Optimization of the old classic procedure as a research project for undergraduate chemistry lab.

Hanley, Guy A, 2004. Portable Aluminum screen table for use in remote paleontological and archaeological excavation sites. Preparators Symposium, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 64th Annual Meeting, November 2004, Denver, CO.

Research and habitus imaging for Royer, R. A. 2003. Butterflies of North Dakota: an atlas and guide (2nd Edition). MSU Science Monograph #2.

Field research for Royer, R. A. 2001. Abiotic habitat parmeters relating to management and conservation of the Dakota Skipper [Hesperia dacotae (Skinner, 1911), Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae]. Unpublished report to USGS Biological Resources Division Species at Risk Program, Washington, DC.

Field research for Royer, R. A. 2000. A manager's guide to the butterflies of Roosevelt National Park and the Little Missouri Badlands, North Dakota. USGS Biological Resources Division: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center.

Hanley, Guy A. and Royer, Ronald A. 1998, Butterfly inventory of selected plots within the Little Missouri National Grassland , Minot State University.

Hanley, Guy A, and Ladendorf, B. Peter, 1995, Ecological implications of fossil mollusca from the Fossil Lake beds of Lake County, Oregon, North Dakota Academy of Science, 87th Annual Meeting, Bismarck, ND.

Hanley, Guy A, 1994, Late pleistocene small vertebrate assemblage collected From anthills, Fossil Lake, Oregon, North Dakota Academy of Science, 86th Annual Meeting, Fargo, ND.