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| Blogging about the conservation of Darwin's Frogs |
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| American Museum of Natural History |
| NEW YORK, NY |
| The AMNH Division of Vertebrate Zoology is comprised of the Departments of Herpetology, Ichthyology, Mammalogy, and Ornithology. Over 3.5 million specimens have been archived in the DVZ collections. Taxonomic and geographic coverage is broad, including over 35,000 species. |
| (Mark was fortunate enough to spend a year in the Mammalogy Department as a curatorial assistant and illustrator) |
| University of Miami Biology Department |
| CORAL GABLES, FL |
| Our laboratory group conducts research on the behavioral ecology of birds, including work on animal communication, sexual selection, and mating systems. |
| University of Tampa Shark Lab |
| TAMPA, FL |
| biomechanics and evolution of feeding mechanisms in the cartilaginous fishes (chondrichthyans: sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras). |
| Atlanta Botanical Garden |
| ATLANTA, GA |
| Community ecology of Microhabitats. |
| Biodiversity Group at the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore |
| SINGAPORE |
| Amphibian and reptile ecology, evolution, and conservation. Goals include description and explanation of Southeast Asian biodiversity, with interests reflecting behavior, evolution, systematics, biogeography, ecology, and conservation. |
| University of Utah, Department of Biology |
| SALT LAKE CITY, UT |
| Functional and Evolutionary Morphology; Comparative Physiology |
| University of Massachusetts |
| AMHERST, MA |
| Functional morphology of intromittent organs in two groups of vertebrates: amniotes and teleost fish. Intromittent organs have evolved several times in both groups -- as inflatable penises in amniotes, and as modified anal fins called gonopodia in teleosts. I use anatomical and biomechanical techniques to examine how intromittent organs perform under the mechanical regime imposed by copulation. |
| Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago |
| CHICAGO, IL |
| Comparative vertebrate physiology, functional morphology and herpetology |
| (Mark's first client and advisor at the University of Miami) |
| Leslie Hill Molecular Systematics Laboratory Kirstenbosch Research Centre |
| SOUTH AFRICA |
| Population dynamics through mobility, gene flow and ecology |
| Summers Lab, University of California |
| IRVINE, CA |
| Functional morphology and evolution of feeding in vertebrates, particularly fishes. Biomechanics and structural properties of materials, especially elasmobranch cartilage. Integrating science, experience and multimedia as a teaching/presentation methodology. |
| *simply the coolest dude there is |
| American Museum of Natural History |
| NEW YORK, NY |
| Higher-level relationships of bats. Phylogeny and evolution of dietary diversity in megachiropteran bats (Familiy Pteropodidae) and New World leaf-nosed bats (Family Phyllostomidae). Revisionary systematics of selected Neotropical bat taxa. Patterns of geographic diversity in Neotropical bats and evaluation of inventory methods. Evolution of echolocation calls and foraging strategies in bats. Eocene fossil bats and early evolution of the chiropteran lineage. |
| (Mark was fortunate enough to spend a year in the Mammalogy Department as a curatorial assistant and illustrator for Dr. Simmons) |
| Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University |
| STONY BROOK, NY |
| University of South Florida Ichthyology |
| TAMPA, FL |
| My research interests are in functional and ecological morphology, and behavior of fishes, particularly as it pertains to feeding. |
| University of Massachusetts |
| AMHERST, MA |
| Environmental and endocrine control of osmoregulation, growth, migration, development and reproduction in teleosts, primarily anadromous fishes. |
| University of Connecticut, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| STORRS, CT |
| In a nutshell, it's about unraveling the mobius strip of how organisms perform their behaviors, how sources of variation affect that performance, and how that performance affects evolution. Raising related species under a set of different environments can reveal whether the deveolpmental response to the environment has evolved. Together with an understanding of the animals' natural environments and the results of a variety of performance tests, functional variation can be used to interpret evolution. |
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