JMIH 2025

JMIH 2025

I was very excited to attend and present at this year’s Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in St. Paul, Minnesota. I was invited to give a presentation as part of the “Science in 3D” symposium. I talked about my trials and...
Paris Natural History Museum visit 2025

Paris Natural History Museum visit 2025

This summer I visited the Paris Natural History Museum to continue broadening my lizard morphology dataset. Thank you very much to the curators and staff for their assistance! I was also lucky enough to check out the public exhibit!...
Morocco Field Research 2025

Morocco Field Research 2025

This summer I had the amazing experience of conducting fieldwork in Morocco. We had a ton of support from our local collaborators Tahar Slimani and Abderrahim S’khifa and collaborators in Portugal (James Harris and all his students and Sónia Ferreira and her...
MSMS collaboration using Python

MSMS collaboration using Python

Over the last semester, I have been working with senior high school student Danica Belingon from Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. We have been focused on blending computer science and research! Danica built custom Python code to run a piece of lab...
SICB 2025

SICB 2025

The SICB conference (Society for Integrative Comparative Biology) was a busy one this year! Working with Dr. Burnes, we brought five MUW students with us to Atlanta. MUW students Cain Petty, Zarin Raya, and Billy Hufton all presented posters, and Ethan Wilkins and...
NSF CAREER award

NSF CAREER award

I am very excited to announce that my NSF CAREER proposal has been approved for funding! See the MUW press release here and our local newspaper, the Commercial Dispatch’s article here. According to NSF’s website: “The Faculty Early Career Development...