Author Archives: Adam

Tuatara Challenge

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Adam

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission kicked off their Python Challenge this weekend. Burmese pythons are invasive species that are eating everything in the Florida Everglades ecosystem, including native wildlife and house pets. The Python Challenge pays $1,000 to the person … Continue reading →

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Maddison Poem

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Adam

Written by David Maddison. Published by Systematic Biology (2012): doi: 10.1093/sysbio/sys057. The Tree of Life I think that I shall never see A thing so awesome as the Tree That links us all in paths of genes Down into depths of … Continue reading →

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Burke Herps on Arctos

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Adam

The Burke Herpetology Collection has joined Arctos, and our collections are now searchable. No database is immune to errors, and on our first visual inspection of the data we noticed that a large collection of Anolis lizards are popping up in … Continue reading →

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Matt’s work explained by Botanist

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Adam

The UW biology graduate student blog Science Positive is posting a 2-part switcheroo. Earlier this year Pat Lu-Irving of the Olmstead lab and Matt McElroy of the Leaché lab crossed paths in the possible 51st State while conducting very different fieldwork. … Continue reading →

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