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New fellowship for Val

Posted on 7 October 2022 by bob

Val recently received a fellowship from the American Association of University Women to support her PhD work. See the UH news release about this here.

Posted in herps, research, UH

Whiptails featured in Science

Posted on 12 August 2022 by bob

Our latest paper on the evolutionary history of whiptails is out now in Science. Check it out here.

Posted in genomics, herps, phylogenetics, research

Van’s latest talk

Posted on 18 May 2020 by van

Take 5 minutes and check out Van’s latest talk at the Zoology mini-symposium!

Posted in conferences, genomics, herps, research, UH

Field work on Lanai.

Posted on 18 February 2020 by bob

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

Luke judges science fair

Posted on 9 December 2019 by Luke Campillo

I recently volunteered to judge at the annual science fair for a local middle school. It was really inspiring to see all the creativity in the room. The whole experience was a good reminder of why I got into science…

Posted in outreach, research, UH

Fieldwork on Kauai

Posted on 18 November 2019 by Luke Campillo

Luke recently returned from conducting fieldwork in the upper reaches of the island of Kauai. Here, in some of the last remaining intact Hawaiian forests, native birds actually outnumber introduced birds! Seen here is ‘anianiau, a Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to…

Posted in genomics, Natural History, research, travel

Fieldwork on Oahu’s offshore islets!

Posted on 13 November 2019 by Val Alvarez

Val is conducting herpetological surveys on Oahu’s windward offshore islets and is also sampling two species of lizard to gain insight into introduction rates and population structure.

Posted in herps, Natural History, research, travel

Field work

Posted on 30 June 2019 by bob

Anthony and I are just back from some fieldwork in the desert southwest focusing on our new NSF-funded whiptail project. Me, him, and Amber Wright did a big loop through Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas. He has a nice…

Posted in herps, Natural History, research, travel

Evolution 2019!

Posted on 19 June 2019 by van

Several members of the Thomson Lab will be in Providence, Rhode Island June 21-25 for this year’s Evolution meeting. If you’re around, please come say hi and check out our talks and posters! Sat, June 22 Population genomics of an…

Posted in conferences, lab, phylogenetics, research, travel