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    • An average day for a guy like me

      An average day for a guy like me

      20 September 2024, Friday My journey to Albuquerque starts normal after the rush of remembering my flight was leaving from San Antonio. I don’t lace my hiking boots and face plant in the parking lot, scraping the lens of my glasses, my hands and knees. I take the bus from my apartment to the bus…

      Read more: An average day for a guy like me
      September 20, 2024
    • Let Me Tell You About Spider Genitalia

      Let Me Tell You About Spider Genitalia

      **Originally published on the Texas EEB Club blog.** Selenopids. Ever hear of them? Probably not. I had never heard of them until spring 2021, when I was applying for my REU at California Academy of Sciences. I worked there for 9 weeks and I’m still working on my project I started there, so let me…

      Read more: Let Me Tell You About Spider Genitalia
      September 29, 2022
    • An average day for a guy like me

      An average day for a guy like me

      20 September 2024, Friday My journey to Albuquerque starts normal after the rush of remembering my flight was leaving from San Antonio. I don’t lace my hiking boots and face plant in the parking lot, scraping the lens of my glasses, my hands and knees. I take the bus from my apartment to the bus…

      Read more: An average day for a guy like me
      September 20, 2024
    • Let Me Tell You About Spider Genitalia

      Let Me Tell You About Spider Genitalia

      **Originally published on the Texas EEB Club blog.** Selenopids. Ever hear of them? Probably not. I had never heard of them until spring 2021, when I was applying for my REU at California Academy of Sciences. I worked there for 9 weeks and I’m still working on my project I started there, so let me…

      Read more: Let Me Tell You About Spider Genitalia
      September 29, 2022

News

May 2025: Moved out to Conboy Lake Natl. Wildlife Refuge in southern Washington for my field position this season: hunting invasive bullfrogs to aid in recovery efforts for Oregon spotted frogs.

March 2025: New pubs out! Coldspots and equitable collaboration in conservation genomic research, and Bd in black-spotted newt museum specimens.

July 2024: Field work in Florida catching as many frogs as we can at Archbold Biological Station! I learned what happens when you become fully nocturnal.

April 2024: Field work in Puerto Rico catching a bunch of coquí in the jungle.

October 2023: Living on the floor of my friend’s dorm in Edinburgh, exploring the city and the Scottish Highlands.

June 2023: Moved to Sonora, CA to survey endangered frogs across the Sierras with the Forest Service for the summer!

May 2023: Graduated from UT Austin with my B.S. and traveled across continental southeast Asia in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia.