Lab News
Highlights
2023: I continue to write up data on a bunch of projects, including invasive Black and White Tegu lizards in GA with collaborators from Georgia DNR and USGS. Justin Sanclemente finished field season #1 on background matching in Florida Scrub Lizards. Michael Brennan is finishing a fellowship to radio track rattlesnakes on the Jekyll Island funded by Georgia Sea Grant. His research is studying parasites of lizards and other herpetofauna in Ocala National Forest continues.
Alumni
David Tevs just started a PhD at Montana in August 2023.
Katie Roberts did plant survey work on various Hawaiian islands...and is backpack out west, looking for jobs, and maybe a law schohol.
Cheyenne Walker is employed the Florida Fish and Wildlife commission working on hunting lands in south FL.
Sidney Anderson is a Science Communicator at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
Dr. Chase Kinsey is a new assistant prof at Belmont University in Nashville.
Richard Orton is working on a PhD in Canada on whale conservation. Get that degree and come back to the south!
Dr. Lauren Neel got hitched, lives in southern Oregon, and works for the National Parks Service...on plants!
Seth Parker, wife Dr. Alicia Reigal, two kids, and a dog have started a new life in Virginia. Seth works at an ag research station.
Matthew Kaunert (ABD at Ohio U!) is The new Director of the Clean Water Institute at Lycoming College in PA.
Sarah Farmer: is likely lighting the world on fire somewhere.
Dr. Clint Collins: is an assistant professor at Cal State Sacramento....and studies Kangaroo rats now. Plus he got his first NSF grant!
Jessica Self: is a big playa in California conservation. She is managing a water & conservation district in (essentially) her hometown! And Ava is about 7. Wow.
Reed Stiller: works for Indiana Department of Natural Resource, managing the Kingsbury Fish and Wildlife Area.
Dr. Derek Tucker: Returned to Phoenix AZ after a PhD at BYU, and a stint at U. West Florida. He is a faculty member at his alma mater, AZ State!
Jen O'Connor: She is working big pharma in metro Atlanta
Steve Williams: has finally moved BACK to Ft. Collins, CO and has a great job with Colorado DNR
Matt Schacht: teaches anatomy at a tech school in Manhattan, KS
Dr. Tim Gowan (UFL) works for Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
Amy Gaskell-Thompson: Works for the Army Corp of Engineers on Everglades restoration projects
Jennifer Korenek: environmental consultant in Houston, TX
Josh Pierce: US Forest Service biologist in Nacogdoches, TX
Dr. Mike Hitchcock: is a medical doctor in ...New England now. Still running and playing sax, I'm sure.