Manhattan nature-girl buys oversized pickup truck, drives it South, hopes for best.
Voluntary Displacement Under Covid-19 Bought a used Ford-150 SuperCab Pickup truck from a man in New Rochelle, NY. It has 130,000 miles...

"A Mollusc Clicks Shut" - Original poem about the precarious lives of many bivalves
A mollusc clicks shut just like it's name. If it's a bivalve, it has to protect it's mantle. From, the Ray the Starfish the Otter the...
Got grant! $20,000 to study Hyoid Evolution in Hawaiian Honeycreepers
I will owe much of my dissertation to the humbling generosity of the John S. Hilson Family Fund. Below. is the foundation's president,...

Texas Natural History Collection (Quest)
"Dear TMNH# 64380, It's an honor and a privilege to be dissecting you in the lab this week. I visit your webpage all the time. I'm one...

The Snake in my N.Y.C. Stovetop
For awhile, an adult corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) that I was too pre-occupied and un-prepared to contain, took up residence under...
Types of Speciation : A Graphic Representation
I drew this figure to address the question -> What is a species? Is it a human construct? Nope! Species are real. But discovering them is...

Presented on Snake Identification and Safety to a Louisiana Police Jury
Over the past few years, a few coral snakes have turned up where they'd never been seen before. It got some folks wondering! They wanted...

Got Grant! -> California Academy of Sci.
Hello San Fransisco! Collecting more monitor lizard hyoid thesis data via a Charles Stearns Grant in Aid for Herpetology. What a...

Enter, the Dragon (Field Museum)
Examining as many monitor lizard species and individuals as I can for my thesis. Anatomical target-> The hyoid apparatus. This, in case...

University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (Quest)
I was lucky enough to add an outgroup to my monitor-lizard-hyoid-project sample while on a snake hunting trip in Trinidad. Why was I in...
