Hi Everyone! Thanks for all of the support and encouragement! The defense was a success! I’m still in the process of recuperating – I’m looking forward to a few more nights of good sleep without worrying about lizards! But, before too long I’ll post some more photos and videos from the presentation. Thanks again for … More Dr. Colin!
Hey Everyone, I’m back in New Haven for the final count down. If you’re interested in tuning in for the defense at 9:00 EST this Wednesday morning, it’s going to be live streaming here at this site. You can log in as a guest, watch the video, and even ask questions if you like. It’s run … More Live-streaming the defense!
About 10 days remaining before the defense! I passed in a complete dissertation draft on Friday and now I’m plugging away at the defense presentation itself. I’ll be posting details about how to log in to the live-stream of the defense at the end of this week, but before that I want to share this story with … More Lizards in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Happy New Years everyone. As my last post said, the first 5 weeks of 2016 are going to be pretty intense. I’ve checked off box 1 and am getting close on box 2. Next step, writing the introduction and conclusion of the dissertation as a whole! As a little aside, I spent Christmas in Georgia … More Happy 2016
Well, after years of “the dissertation will be due at some point in 5 or 6 years” I finally have a deadline: February 3rd, 2016! So the countdown begins. Jorge Cham at PhDComics sums it up: To do: Submit revisions of chapter 3 Submit chapter 4 to a journal Write the dissertation part of my … More The countdown begins
Spotting these anoles in the field was one of the harder challenges of the field work in the Bahamas. They can be exceptionally well camouflaged against the right background and unlike Podarcis, they didn’t really do a lot of running until you were really close to them. Here are a few examples: The trick is to … More Masters of Camouflage
As I alluded to in a previous post, we had to catch a lot of lizards from these sites! We needed at least 80 A. sagrei from Andros and we were also on the lookout for any other anole species we could find. Much like my lizards in Greece, we used long fishing poles with a little loop at … More Catching Anoles
The roads on Andros were tough! Even the “highway” spanning the island north-to-south was dirt, and while the graters were doing their best to keep ahead of the erosion following each deluge, many of the secondary roads leading to our sites required a sturdy truck. Luckily this Yukon had been brought to the Navy base on the … More The requisite car trouble
Well, the Thanksgiving holidays got the better of me and I didn’t get the next post up as quickly as I was hoping. However, now that cold weather has really settled in in New England, another few photos from warmer climes are a welcome distraction. As I introduced last post, I just spent a week … More So what were we up to in the Bahamas?
I’m in the Bahamas! Actually, I’m just back from the Bahamas but I spent 6 days catching lizards all over the island of Andros. I’ve got stories and a lot of pictures, so I’m going to trickle them out over the next week or two (otherwise all I’d have to tell you about is more … More In the Bahamas looking for Anoles
Colin Donihue 