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Arizona

Our collecting trip to Arizona was a huge success! We caught tons of lizards, found some neat snakes, and even turned up some interesting toads.  The photos are all posted on our Flickr site.  Undergraduate researchers Michael, Anna, & Madison … Continue reading

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Jared Wins Stoye Award

Congratulations to Jared for winning the prestigious Stoye Award at the World Congress of Herpetology meetings in Vancouver, B.C. for the best student oral presentation in herpetology for his talk, “Species delimitation using Bayes factors applied to the Sceloporus scalaris … Continue reading

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Washington collecting permit fail, Arizona win!

For two years, my lab has had a miserable time trying to get scientific collecting permits from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to conduct scientific research in Washington.  For example, the WDFW prohibits us from collecting a single amphibian … Continue reading

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Postdoctoral position available

A postdoctoral researcher position is available! The position is part of a systematics project funded by the National Science Foundation. The duration of the postdoctoral position is three years. The project goal is to apply new DNA sequencing technologies to … Continue reading

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Mexico Horned Lizards

In mid-June, we went on a collecting trip to Mexico to catch horned lizards with Wade Sherbrooke and Adrian Nieto Montes de Oca.  Thanks to the help of some local graduate students woking with professors Fausto Mendez and Elizabeth Beltran-Sanchez … Continue reading

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