US Embassy Science Speaker at UASD, Dominican Republic 2006

Reviewer for Systematic Entomology and Oecologia

City of Davis Picnic Day “Bug Doctor” 2001-2005
     As “Bug Doctor” for the UCD Entomology dept., I identified insects for children and adults in the Davis community.

Arbor Day Presentation Assistant – Cape Nature Conservation, South Africa  2003
     Presentation stressing the importance of native trees and the cost of invasives to water and soil preservation was given to small, rural communities east of the Cederberg Wilderness Area in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Committee on Women’s Attrition in the Population Biology Graduate Group 2002

Putah Creek Explorations 2002
     Designed and executed a 3 session outreach program for a Trenton School 5th Grade class to teach about natural selection and adaptation.

PBGG Open House Representative  2001
     The Open House introduced community members to research in evolution and ecology.

College Bound Program Instructor 1996
     This program introduces 6th graders to college opportunities in science and biology.

Brody, A. K. and S. I. Morita (2000). A positive association between oviposition and fruit set: female choice or manipulation? Oecologia 124 (3), pages 418-425.

Johnson, S. D. and S. I. Morita (2006). Lying to Pinocchio: floral deception in an orchid pollinated by long-proboscid flies. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 152:271-278..

Morita, S. I. (in press). A revision of the Philoliche aethiopica species complex. African Invertebrates.

Morita, S. I. (in revision). A phylogeny of long-tongued horse flies (Philoliche, Diptera: Tabanidae) with the first cladistic evaluation of higher relationships within the family. Invertebrate Systematics.

Morita, S. I. (manuscript). Evidence for adaptive pollinator morphology in long-tongued horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae).

Morita, S.I. “The Evolution of Blood-Sucking Pollinators.”  Invited speaker for the 1111th meeting of the Entomological Society of Washington, Washington, DC, October 4th, 2007.

Morita, S.I. “The Evolution of Long-Tongued Fly Pollinators.”  Invited speaker for the North Carolina State University Department of Entomology Seminar Series, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 10th, 2007.

Morita, S.I. “Hunting for long-tongued flies in South Africa.”  Invited speaker for the North American Dipterists Society at the 54^th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 12^th, 2006.

Morita, S.I. “Bloodsucking Flower-feeders: horse flies as pollinators.”  Featured speaker for the US Embassy Department of Cultural Affairs Science Outreach Program.  Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October 25th, 2006.

Morita, S.I. “A preliminary phylogeny for the horse flies.” Presented at the 6th International Congress of Dipterology, Fukuoka, Japan, September 28^th, 2006.

Morita, S.I. “Bloodsucking Flower-feeders: proboscis length evolution in long tongued horse flies.” Presented at the joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists, Stonybrook, New York, June 23rd, 2006.

Morita, S.I. “Insect Systematics at UC Davis and Phylogeographic Structure of Tongue Length and Its Relationship to Floral Resources in the Long-tongued Horsefly Pollinator Philoliche aethiopica (Diptera: Tabanidae).” Invited speaker for the Graduate Student Symposium in Systematics. Pacific Branch Entomological Society of America 89th Annual Meeting. Pacific Grove, California, March 1st, 2005.

Morita, S, I. “Phylogeographic structure of proboscis length in the long-tongued horse fly pollinator Philoliche aethiopica (Diptera: Tabanidae).” Presented at the 6th Young Systematists' Forum, London, UK, Dec. 9th, 2004.

Morita, S.I. “Phylogeographic structure in the long tongued horse fly pollinator Philoliche aethiopica (Diptera: Tabanidae).” Presented at the Southern Connections meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, January 20th, 2004.

Morita, S. I. and Brody, A. K. “A positive association between ovipostion by a pre-dispersal seed predator and fruit set: Female choice or manipulation?” Presented at the joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists, Vancouver, B. C., Canada, June 23rd, 1998.