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Kaleo article

Check out Val’s new article in Kaleo here!

Posted in conservation, Hawaii, Natural History, outreach

Field work on Lanai.

I’m just back from some field work on Lana’i. Lots of lizards, beautiful landscapes, a dead sperm whale, and more aloha than I’ve experienced in a long time. Photos below!

Posted in conservation, herps, Natural History, research, travel

Article in Kaleo student newspaper by Val

Val has a new popular article out in the University’s student newspaper Kaleo on bioplastics. Check it out here.

Posted in conservation, Natural History, outreach, UH

Book review for Thomson et al. 2016

The first review of the California Herp book has now been published in the Society for Study of Amphibians and Reptiles journalĀ Herpetological Review. You can check it out here.

Posted in conservation, herps, Natural History

The book is out!

I’m a little late posting this, but the book is out! The author’s advance copies arrived a couple months ago andĀ UC Press and Amazon are both now shipping copies.

Posted in conservation, herps, Natural History

Desert Oracle

I’ve got an article on the elusive California Gila monster in the Spring 2016 issue of the Desert Oracle. Check it out.

Posted in conservation, herps, Natural History, outreach, travel

August Herp Night

Detangling 40 million years on a life raft; the biogeography of the Fijian Island herpetofauna Robert Fisher   I am very happy to welcome Robert Fisher from the San Diego USGS field station as our first herp night speaker of

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Posted in conservation, herps, Natural History, travel, UH

Caroline Defends!

Congratulations to Caroline, who defended her Masters last week!

Posted in conservation, herps, lab, Natural History, phylogenetics, UH

Service learning at UH West Oahu

I wanted to highlight some great outreach work going on over at UH West Oahu. Friend of the Thomson Lab, Laci Gerhart-Barley, has a new post up over at her blog outlining the work they’re doing with undergraduates on restoration

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Posted in conservation, Natural History, teaching, UH

Pond Turtles

(Bio)accumulation blog is doing a nice job of aggregating literature on the Western Pond turtle. A couple of new additions to the list are up, including our recent SNP paper that proposes splitting the Western Pond Turtle into two species.

Posted in conservation, genomics, herps, Natural History