Collaborators

Here are links to some of my collaborators, without whom, the work described on this site would not have been possible:

Before my arrival in Carbondale, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jack Hayes at the University of Nevada, Reno. Our work was (and continues to be) focussed on discerning the physiological mechanisms that gave rise to the evolution of endothermy in mammals. We also have worked on projects that examine how physiological capacity inluences animal behavior.

As an NSF postdoctoral fellow, I worked largely with Michael Angilletta (Indiana State University) on projects concerning the thermal biology and life history evolution of lizards. You can read more about his work here

My work in NM is largely possible because of the work of Lee Fitzgerald (Texas A&M University) over the past ten years in the Mescalero Sand Dunes. Our ongoing work examines the (spatial) habitat requirements of the sand dunes lizard to help implement science-based conservation policies regarding this threatened lizard.

I also work with Karen Lips (University of Maryland) examining the links between pathogens, climate change, and amphibian declines.

Kimberly Artita collaborates on projects that integrate biologically inspired computing techniques with problems in ecology and environmenal engineering.

Interesting Links

Many of the computational tools that I use would not have been feasible without the thankless work of many folks in the Open Source Software community. Here are some links to resources that have been especially valuable to my work:

Gentoo Linux is, in my opinion, simply the best Linux distribution going for scientific research.

Can't afford SAS, SPSS, or some other expensive proprietary statistics software, try R instead!

Everyone should program in Python. Other Python projects that I use on a daily basis are Scipy, psyco, Matplotlib and rpy.

There are also many very good open source applications for GIS. Two examples that I use are GRASS GIS and QGIS. Other applications and libraries can be found at the Open Source Geospatial Foundation website

Below are societies and organisations in which I am involved:

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Ecological Society of America

American Society of Naturalists

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

Finally, most of my work over the past 10 years has been funded fully or in part by the National Science Foundation