"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." -Charles Darwin

Education:

Ph.D. in Zoology - Texas Tech University (2000)

M.A. in Biology - Ball State University (1994)

B.S. in Natural Resources - Ball State University (1992)
My Curriculum Vitae

Professional Master's in Biotechnology Information

Course Information (Classes I am currently teaching, or recently taught)

SPRING 2012

Evolution

Herpetology

FALL 2011

Conservation Biology

Research Interests

I earned my Ph.D. from Texas Tech University where I studied population genetics of endangered crocodiles in Belize, C.A. and have been at USF for the past nine years where my research falls under the broad category of conservation genetics. It is my goal to use genetics as a means of better managing threatened wildlife. I am currently collaborating with Ryan Peek, my former graduate student on examining the effects of dams on gene flow on the river-dwelling frog Rana boylii. Population genetics questions interest me as well - my graduate student Marissa Lafler and I have teamed up with Behavioral Biologist Scott Nunes on researching Belding's ground squirrel populations near Yosemite. I am also interested in finding evolutionarily significant populations of species on a more global scale, and am a research associate with the Herpetology Department at the California Academy of Sciences where my students and I are involved in describing new frog species from Myanmar... For more detailed info check out these links:

CURRENT PROJECTS: Impact of dams on genetic diversity in foothill yellow-legged frogs (R. boylii) Belding's Ground Squirrel Population Study near Yosemite New species of Amolops from Myanmar (formally known as Burma) FORMER PROJECTS: Gene flow in Rana boylii of a pristine region on the Eel river Genetic Diversity in Morelet's Crocodile populations in Belize, Central America

Collecting Rana boylii frogs in the Eldorado National Forest, June 2011.

Cool links

For your listening pleasure: KEXP& KCRW

For looking up information: PubMed, or BioOne(USF students)

Amphibian Specialist Group: http://www.amphibians.org/

Amphibia Web: http://amphibiaweb.org/

Want to support the conservation effort? The Nature Conservancy

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