SICB 2026

SICB 2026

This was an exciting year for the SICB conference. I brought three MUW undergraduates to Portland, OR. One student, Maddie Guerin, presented a poster on a long term project in my lab, looking at ontogenetic changes in toe pad morphology and performance in crested...
LSU Shreveport visit

LSU Shreveport visit

In October, I brought two students, Maddie Guerin and Kane Petty, to visit Dr. Stu Nielsen’s gecko lab at LSU Shreveport. We got to check out his live animal breeding facility, and measure a handful of live geckos.     and help preserve specimens!     ...
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...