Blog Archives

The book is out!

Posted on 10 October 2016 by bob

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

Posted in conservation, herps, Natural History

Desert Oracle

Posted on 2 May 2016 by bob

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

September Herp Night

Posted on 21 September 2015 by bob

Exploring species diversity in Southeast Asian Sun Skinks Anthony Barley Thursday September 24, 2015. 3rd Floor Edmondson Hall. Herp night this month will take place 6pm Thursday on the 3rd floor of Edmondson Hall. Anthony Barley will be talking…

Posted in genomics, herps, Natural History, phylogenetics, travel, UH

August Herp Night

Posted on 20 August 2015 by bob

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…

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

Mojave Desert Fieldwork

Posted on 8 June 2015 by van

The Mojave Desert is a great place to study reptiles. Besides being a biological hotspot of lizard diversity, it is also a beautiful place to work. Anthony, Bob, Amber Wright, and I just got back from an 11-day field expedition in…

Posted in herps, lab, Natural History, travel

Barley et al (2015) on the Molecular Ecology cover

Posted on 8 April 2015 by bob

Anthony (and co-authors) new paper on Sun Skink landscape genetics is out today on the cover of Molecular Ecology. Way to go Anthony!

Posted in genomics, herps, informatics, Natural History

Caroline Defends!

Posted on 26 March 2015 by bob

Congratulations to Caroline, who defended her Masters last week!

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

Service learning at UH West Oahu

Posted on 11 February 2015 by bob

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…

Posted in conservation, Natural History, teaching, UH

Hawaii’s Herps

Posted on 19 August 2014 by bob

Departing briefly from their normal topics, Hawaii Business magazine published an article this month on herps in Hawaii. It’s a short trivia style article that basically points out the paucity of native reptiles and amphibians in our state and has…

Posted in herps, Natural History

Pond Turtles

Posted on 11 August 2014 by bob

(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