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HERPETOLOGY INFORMATION -- ANNOUNCEMENTS & LINKS

Last Updated: 12/18/2003
(minor revisions/link updates 8/19/2006)

Announcements:

I finally got the scores and grading finished up this evening (Thursday, the 18th). I should have your envelopes with the details in the secretary's office (Stevens 218) ready to be picked up by, say, around 9:00 AM tomorrow (the 19th) or thereafter.

It's been a fun semester and I enjoyed having all of you in class.

Have a great Christmas and semester break. ... and here's wishing you fun and success with herps from here on!

Jim Grier

PS Don't get bit! At least if you do, you know now what to do. :)

Photo by Matt Smith

Schedule of presentations and links to Readings/focal papers:

Thursday, November 20

• Sarah Beck -- Nest site selection in loggerhead turtles
• Jennifer Hess -- Spatial awareness/homing by the lizard Anolis cristatellus
• Sarah Schoenberg -- Which methods are most effective for surveying rain forest herpetofauna?

Tuesday, November 25

• Erica Borsheim -- Physiology of original and regenerated lizard tails
• Bobbi Carpenter -- Atrazine-induced hermaphroditism at 0.1 ppb in American leopard frogs

Tuesday, December 2

• Sarah Baker -- Costs of reproduction influence the evolution of sexual size dimorphism
• Brad Tofte -- Effects of chemical and visual cues on prey trailing in brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis)

Thursday, December 4

• Paula Fernholz -- Evolution of reproductive effort in lizards and snakes (postponed from an earlier date)
• Chad Jansen -- Differential avoidance of coral snake banded patterns by free-ranging avian predators in Costa Rica
• BriAnna Maxam -- Antipredator responses of free-ranging pit vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae)
• Becky Wenzel -- Freeze tolerance in the gray treefrog: cryoprotectant mobilization and organ dehydration

Tuesday, December 9

• Ryan Riggs -- Coevolution of deadly toxins and predator resistance ... (garter snakes and newts)
• James Sanford -- The evolution of coloration and toxicity in the poison frog family (Dendrobatidae)

Thursday, December 11

• Johanna Emerson -- Effects of prolonged retention in hatcheries on green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchling swimming speed and survival (paper not available on internet; copies available on shelf in 107, including copies that can be briefly removed from room for copying if you want) (postponed from an earlier date)
• Nathan Busche -- A comparison of the swimming of marine and freshwater turtles
• Brent Cossette -- Phenotypic plasticity for growth in the common snapping turtle: effects of incubation, temperature, clutch, and their interaction
• Jared Newton -- Morphological abnormality patterns in a California amphibian community
• Lisa Seavert -- Impacts of tattooing and PIT-tagging on survival and fecundity in the Alpine newt (Triturus alpestris)
• plus guest speaker: Dan Moen (from 2001 herp class, now working in herpetology)

General Links:

• Reptiles and Amphibians of North Dakota
• ND Reptile and Amphibian Key
  
• Minnesota Herpetological Society (MHS) Home Page
• Chicago Herpetological Society (CHS) Homepage
  
  Western Dakotas field trip links:
• Black Hills Institute of Geological Research
• Reptile Gardens. The world's largest collection of reptiles
  
  Midwest Herpetological Symposium links:
• 19th Annual Midwest Herpetological Symposium
• Background information on the Midwest Herp symposium

Professor Name: James W Grier
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