Researchers

I am a specialist in herpetological ecology and conservation biology, combining intensive fieldwork with field conservation experiments, laboratory methods, and comparative methods including museum-based historical ecology. I also work with fishes, aquatic insects, and small mammals. I seek to understand drivers of ecological dynamics and change based on species interactions, physiological ecology, adaptation, climate, and landscape characteristics and change. Projects include desert vertebrate abundance monitoring, aquatic species ecology and recovery, urban ecology, and translocation experiments. I have recently collaborated in physiological ecology studies related to climate change. I enjoy collaboration and believe international collaboration is essential to a mission of planetary and human self-preservation. My interests also include history, philosophy, sociobiology of human behavior and history, economics, and political pathways to reform both locally and especially globally. Most of all, though, it’s the turtles, snakes, lizards, and frogs … .