Lab News

Highlights

2025: 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.   The lab has two MS students (Euan Andrew, Elissa Colombo) and a RaMP student (Isaiah Samek) getting ready for a summer of field work.

Alumni

• Justin Sanclemente is complete a year long GA Sea Grant internship at Jekyll Island.

• Michael Brennan is doing his PhD at UGA on Jekyll Island Rattlesnakes.

• David Tevs just is working his way through comps and collection data in his PhD at Montana.

• Katie Roberts did plant survey work on various Hawaiian islands...and is busy traveling the world.

• 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 (PhD 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 water conservation. She is managing a water & conservation district in (essentially) her hometown! And Ava is about 9. 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 (PhD UFl) works for US Fish and Wildlife Service

• 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.