Degrees

• BA, Amherst College (Biology);
• MS, PhD UCLA (Zoology/Environmental Physiology)

Areas of Interest

• Organismal biology
• animal behavior
• functional ecology
• evolutionary physiology

Current research projects

• Antibiotic resistant bacteria in wild amphibians
• ecology and behavior of terrestrial isopods

Courses

• Introduction to Biology
• Laboratory Teaching Experience
• Undergraduate Research

Textbooks

• Herpetology (3rd edition) 2004, Prentice Hall
• Vertebrate Life (8th edition) 2009, Benjamin Cummings
• What is Life? A Guide to Biology by Jay Phelan (1st edition), 2009 W. H. Freeman (Chapters 12, 13, and 14)