In just a few hours I’ll be aboard a plane heading to Europe and I feel like I’m only now getting my head around this field season. This semester has been a blur of manuscript writing, committee meeting stressing, research planning, and dissertation drafting. To add to the mix, I’m moving to Boston next year … More Suddenly field season!
The Yale Preserve is an oft-overlooked patch of forest not 20 minutes down the road from campus. Nestled between the Yale New Haven golf course and an interstate, it’s a somewhat unlikely place to go seeking fresh air and wildlife. Nonetheless, it’s one of my favorite places in Connecticut to walk and find snakes, frogs, … More Snapshot into the past
Gyros are amazing. Every year, as excited as I am to get back into the field and chasing lizards, my first stop is my favorite gyro shop on Naxos. You can see why: This year the gyros couldn’t come fast enough, so I decided to try my hand at making some. While the endeavor turned into … More The best kind of preparations for Greece
Well, it’s finally time to analyze all of those videos from this summer. We took several hours of behavioral video from the field of lizards crawling around, basking, eating, or chasing other lizards. We’re now processing all of it to get a sense for how the lizards divvy up their days – their time budget. … More Videos… so many videos
Good news: another manuscript was accepted last week! This one was a joint effort with Os and two other students in the lab. We’ll be writing a full post here and on the Schmitz lab blog, but I’ve a feeling it’s not going to happen until after the holidays – the paper is over 50 pages … More Channeling Harper
Hi Everyone, Sorry for the lack of updates lately! Things have been busy! Two papers were accepted last week, another was submitted the week before, and if all goes according to plan two more should be in review before the new year. Egads! Still, I’ve been taking some pictures lately and thought I’d share. I’ve … More Macro Salamandering
Alright, if you haven’t already taken the quiz, check out the previous post from Kat and see if you can guess the answers. Here are a few pictures from Kat to distract you so you don’t see the answers ahead of time! And now for the answers! Were you able to recognize any of these … More The Quiz Answered!
Kat’s first post was so popular here’s a quiz she wrote for you all on insect identification: Sometimes I find crazy, exciting stuff when looking through P. erhardii stomach contents (see the bottlebrush tick and pseudoscorpion from the last post!). More often than not, however, I find myself looking at variations on a theme: clusters of … More Pop Quiz: Insect ID
Hi, Kat here! Colin’s made me entomologist in chief of the lizard gang. For my senior thesis, I’m focusing on the insect aspect of Colin’s project. The main thrust of my thesis is comparing the available prey community of P. erhardii to the diet composition of the lizard. As Colin described in a previous blog … More Guest Post: Bugs and Lizard Vomit
And finally, Kat’s conclusion of the Environmental Studies Fellowship presentation. Thank you very much to the Environmental Studies undergraduate summer fellowship for their support.
Colin Donihue 