This fall I sat down with Public Radio International’s “Living on Earth” team to talk about my urban anole research. I’m excited that it finally aired this weekend! One minor correction, they incorrectly identify me as an associate professor. I am still in graduate school (though hopefully not too much longer!). You can hear it … Continue reading
Yesterday was the beginning of a 14 day research trip to Puerto Rico. So far the trip has been very exciting. I’m here with graduate student Elizabeth Carlen (@E_Carlen) and budding young biologist Jessica Li. We are working primarily at the University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo this time. Instead of staying at our … Continue reading
On my trip to Puerto Rico this past fall I was able to get some decent video of Anolis stratulus dewlapping. Check it out! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The crown-giant anole of Puerto Rico, Anolis cuvieri, is typically a strikingly bright emerald green lizard. A. cuvieri juveniles have a brownish coloration, which they lose as they mature. Except for some A. cuvieri that keep this brown coloration into adulthood. This color morph was documented in a 1975 paper by Rand and Andrews (“Adult Color Dimorphism and … Continue reading
I’m back in Puerto Rico for another field season! This trip we will be sampling pretty heavily in a forest and urban site in Mayaguez. We got in late sunday night and then yesterday we were hit with a pretty intense thunderstorm that caused flash flooding across the island, so we didn’t really get to … Continue reading
This July, the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Just a couple of weeks after the Evolution conference (Snowbird, Utah), many people are choosing to only attend one of these conferences this year. A recent post on Anole Annals pointed out that Evolution has an impressive 7 anole-related talks … Continue reading
Adaptability 