Chasing Arctic Frogs
A short recipe for adventurous field science Take me to the photos! Step 1: Come up with a hair-brained scheme. My labmate Yara and I had been dreaming up the […]
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Tips for taking spherical panoramas
Spherical panoramas can be tricky to stitch properly in dense forests, and especially when canopy elements are very close to the camera (which exaggerates the parallax). Fortunately, the issue attenuated […]
Hot competition and tadpole Olympics
Our newest paper (pdf available on my publications page), led by Kaija Gahm is just out in the Journal of Experimental Zoology as part of special issue on herp physiology […]
Smartphone hemispherical photography
Hemispherical photography is one of those tasks often prefaced by the statement, “How hard could it be?” I’m pretty sure I said something like this at the beginning of my […]
Frogs in the Feral Atlas
“Every event in human history has been a more-than-human event.” This is the first line from the introduction of Feral Atlas: the more-than-human Anthropocene, a new book out from Stanford Univ. […]
Phenology in a warming world
I’m thrilled to announce that the first of my dissertation chapters has just been published in Ecography. Update (Nov. 2020): And, I’m especially thrilled that our piece will be the […]
New Island for Alaskan Toads
I completely forgot to post this range extension for Bufo (= Anxyrus) boreas when it came out a few months ago in Herpetological Review. With only five species of herps […]
Julian Date vs Day of the Year
Julian day and Day of Year (DOY) are NOT the same thing I recently wrote a paper looking at how frog breeding timing is impacted by climate change. So, I’ve […]
A Paper A Day
FYI, the featured image for this post is a collage titled Numenius arquata on The village clerk by Albert Ankera by @birds_dont_cry At the beginning of my PhD, I had […]
Do we need an Ethic of Road Ecology?
Yesterday, I gave a presentation titled, “Do we need an Ethic of Road Ecology?” at the 10th International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) The talk was well received (in […]