I will say goodbye to my rubber boots, Bought for $30 from Canadian Tire in 2022 Now spattered with specks of red, blue, yellow, green...

In the last five days of field work, we hit numerous firsts. Up on the north coast, near Annotto Bay if you’re following along, we were...

Dusk falls Light dims Hazy purple glow behind the trees.   First a squint as the shadows lengthen, Inky wells of blackness pooling and...

From the dry forests outside of Kingston, we wound our way up into the Blue Mountains, famous for its coffee and steep sided hills. We...

For the past two years in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the language and rhythms of the music we heard have been Spanish...

In the week that followed Hurricane Beryl, we had been intending on camping in some high elevation forests neat St. Catherines Peak....

Oh field work, how you delight me and try my patience. Our first week in Jamaica can only be described as chaotic. The first ten days...

I’m now wrapping up my fifth year as a PhD student at the University of Toronto and am conducting my third summer of co-leading...

Inky black as sun slips behind mogote Stars above, But hazy and indistinct without glasses. Dishes in lagoon prompt sparkle of shooting...

I come to science with privilege. To name a few aspects, I am the child of scientists and university professors, which helped me have an...

Across elevation gradients, abundance of anoles decreases from low to high elevations. Species richness also follows distinct patterns...

The mark-resight aspects of this project involve hours of solo searching for lizards in a forest, both during the day and night. This was...

On top of a mountain, I surveyed a site for three days in which I saw zero lizards. After 6 hours of no lizards, my brain goes through...

One of the main goals of the work we are doing this summer is to estimate the abundances of the various anole that are present at each...

Hola y bienvenidos a la Republica Dominicana. Voy a estar en este país por casi dos meses para trabajar con las lagartijas para mi...

After finally finishing the Jurassic Park original trilogy, I must modify my belief that working with Anoles is akin to working with...

The first five sites we’ve been to on this trip were “successful” from our scientific perspective. We caught a decent number of...

From our sites in Cachote, we wended our way inland and north to Puerto Escondido. In this region (near Lago Enriquillo if you’re looking...

The third region we explored this trip is the Cachote, in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park. This part of the southern Dominican...

Phew. One week of field work in the Dominican Republic and it feels like I’ve been here much longer. This is partially due to the intense...