September 2022: I presented some of the early results of my collaboration with the distinguished biologist Dr. Eric Pianka at the Canadian Herpetological Societies' annual meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The talk was on generating 10 dimensional hypervolumes of the niches of 10 sympatric Ctenotus skinks from the Great Victoria Desert in Australia using ~50 years of data from Dr. Pianka. Unfortunately Dr. Pianka died 2 days before I presented.
May 2022: First field season investigating overwintering of Phrynosoma hernandesi in Southwestern Saskachewan is complete.
Jan. 2022: The fall 2021 edition The Canadian Herpetologist edited by Meghan Ward and I is available at Canadian Herpetological Society members
December 2021: Dr. Larry Powell and I gave a talk about horned lizards in Canada for the Horned Lizard Conservation Society.
Taylor, R.S., Bramwell, A.C., Clemente-Carvalho, R., Cairns, N.A., Bonier, F., Dares, K. and Lougheed, S.C., 2021. Cytonuclear discordance in the crowned-sparrows, Zonotrichia atricapilla and Zonotrichia leucophrys. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 162, p.107216.
Dec. 2020: Cairns, N.A., A.S., Cicchino, K.A., Stewart, J.D. Austin and S.C. Lougheed. in press. Cytonuclear discordance, reticulation and cryptic diversity in one of North America's most common frogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. authors.elsevier.com/a/1cKYf3m3nM-xmg
September 2020: I was interviewed by the wonderful folks at the Horned Lizard Conservation Society about horned lizards in Saskatchewan.
August 2020: PhD is complete and defended.
April 2020: I wrote a blog post about my experience observing greater short-horned lizards year over year.
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