Joel W. Martin (b. 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 (Martin and Davis, 2001).
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.
Bauer, R. T. and J. W. Martin (editors). 1991. Crustacean Sexual Biology. Columbia University Press, New York. 355 pp.
Martin, J. W., and G. E. Davis. 2001. An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series No. 39. 124 pp.
Martin, J. W., K. A. Crandall, and D. L. Felder (editors). 2009. Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues 18. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida. 616 pp.
Martin, J. W. 2010. The Prism and the Rainbow: A Christian Explains Why Evolution Is Not a Threat. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press (scheduled for release May 2010).
De Grave, S., and J. W. Martin (editors) (In press). Crustacean Field Techniques. Cambridge University Press.