Joel W. Martin

Joel W. Martin
Born	1955
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Florida State University
Known for	studies of morphology and systematics of marine decapod crustaceans
Scientific career
Fields	Marine biology
Institutions	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Academic advisors	Dr. Lawrence G. Abele

Joel W. Martin (born 1955) is an American marine biologist and invertebrate zoologist who is currently Chief of the Division of Invertebrate Studies and Curator of Crustacea at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC). His main area of research is the morphology and systematics of marine decapod crustaceans (crabs, shrimps, lobsters and their relatives).

Martin received a doctorate from the Florida State University in 1986. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and books mainly on morphology, natural history, taxonomy, and evolutionary relationships of both decapods and of branchiopods of ephemeral pools. His work also includes studies on the animals inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. He is best known of an article on an updated classification of all crustaceans In addition to his research on marine invertebrates, he has been active on communicating questions of global biodiversity and on the history and interaction of science and religious faith.

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