New Island for Alaskan Toads
I completely forgot to post this range extension for Bufo (= Anxyrus) boreas when it came out a few months ago in Herpetological Review. With only five species of herps […]
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A Paper A Day
FYI, the featured image for this post is a collage titled Numenius arquata on The village clerk by Albert Ankera by @birds_dont_cry At the beginning of my PhD, I had […]
Do we need an Ethic of Road Ecology?
Yesterday, I gave a presentation titled, “Do we need an Ethic of Road Ecology?” at the 10th International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) The talk was well received (in […]
Evolution of Intrinsic Rates at the Evolution Conference 2019
At this year’s Evolution Conference in Providence Road island, the organizers managed to recruit volunteers to film most of the talks. This is such a great opportunity for folks who […]
How to build a better rattrap with population genetics
A team I worked with just published a population genetics study looking at the effectiveness of rat eradication programs in Salvador, Brazil. Rats have traveled around the globe alongside humans. […]
Surprise: Best Speed Talk at SCCS-NY
A few months ago, I gave a talk at the American Museum of Natural History as part of the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS-NY) on my road ecology research. […]
Analyzing Hemispherical Photos
Now that you’ve got the theory, equipment, and your own hemispherical photos, the final steps are processing the photos and generating estimates of canopy and light values. We’ll be correcting […]
Frogz that Glowz
I’m excited to announce that my paper “A new, noninvasive method for batch marking amphibians across developmental stages” is now published at Herpetological Conservation and Biology. This project originally grew […]
Taking hemispherical canopy photos
Be sure to check out the previous two posts: 1. Hemispherical Light Estimates 2. Hardware for Hemispherical Photos Once the theory and equipment are taken care of, you are ready […]
Poster: Frogz that Glowz
I had a ton of fun presenting a poster detailing my soon-to-be published study exploring the use of calcein fluorescence marking in amphibians at this year’s Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists […]