October 2014: Grant proposal for a threat analysis and determining conservation actions for the Illinois Cave Amphipod funded by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (Co-PI with Steve Taylor and Scott Cinel, $35,000)!
October 2014: New paper on the life history and demography of the Grotto Salamander published in Herpetological Conservation and Biology (with Dante Fenolio, G.O. Graening, Brett Collier, and Jim Stout).
October 2014: Caving fieldwork in Virginia.
September 2014: New paper on the distribution and conservation status of a cave bristletail in the Ozarks published in Subterranean Biology (with Luis Espinasa, Monika Espinasa, Dante Fenolio, and Mike Slay).
September 2014: Seminar in the Department of BIology at Centre College (hosted by Scott Shreve).
September 2014: Seminar in the Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University (hosted by Dr. Jon Armbruster).
September 2014: Seminar in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the Minnesota Herpetological Society.
August 2014: Began a new postdoctoral position at the Illinois Natural History Survey.
August 2014: Caving fieldwork in Tennessee.
July 2014: Attended and presented at the 2014 National Speleological Society Meeting in Huntsville, Alabama.
July 2014: Caving fieldwork in Tennessee.
June 2014: Attended and presented at the 2014 Evolution Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina.
June 2014: Caving fieldwork in Tennessee.
May 2014: Attended and presented at the 6th Conference on the Biology of the Plethodontid Salamanders in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
May 2014: Caving fieldwork in Oklahoma.
May 2014: New paper on the description of the Hoosier Cavefish, a new amblyopsid cavefish from southern Indiana, published in ZooKeys (with Prosanta Chakabarty and Jacques Prejean).
February 2014: Attended the Southeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation meeting at Lake Cumberland State Park in Kentucky.
February 2014: Paper on the phylogeny of boas and pythons published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (with Graham Reynolds and Liam Revell).
November 2013: Grant proposal on the distribution and conservation of cave biodiversity in the Valley and Ridge funded by Cave Conservancy Foundation (Co-PI with Annette Summers Engel, Kirk Zigler, Dante Fenolio and K. Denise Kendall, $25,000)!
November 2013: Attended the Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan meeting in Murfreesboro, TN.
November 2013: Grant proposal on the conservation of Stygobromus amphipods funded by Cave Conservancy of the Virginias (Co-PI with Megan L. Porter and Mike Slay, $15,600)!
November 2013: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Section 6 Grant on RTE cave beetles funded (Co-PI with Kirk Zigler, $23,217)!
October 2013: Stygobromus Working Group meeting in Esty, WV.
October 2013: Seminar in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville (hosted by Bill Pearson).
September 2013: Presented at the Fall Meeting of the Tennessee Cave Survey in Cookeville, TN.
September 2013: Attended the 19th Annual Tennessee Herpetological Conference in Harrogate, TN.
September 2013: Appalachian LCC Grant "Classification and Georeferencing Cave/Karst Resources across the Appalachian LCC" funded (Co-PI with David Culver, Mary Christman, Daniel Doctor, David Weary, John Young, & Kirk Zigler, $129,157)!
September 2013: Paper on the conservation status of the Georgia Blind Salamander published in Reptiles and Amphibians.
September 2013: Paper on the phylogeny and historical biogeography of West Indian boid snakes published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (with Graham Reynolds, Blair Hedges, Alex Dornburg, Alberto Puente-Rolon and Liam Revell).
August 2013: Joined the Linnen Lab as a postdoc in the Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky.
August 2013: Our book The Reptiles of Tennessee (coedited with Graham Reynolds & Brian Miller) is officially published and available!
August 2013: Our book Cave Life of TAG: A Guide to Commonly Encountered Species in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia (coauthored with Kirk Zigler & Dante Fenolio) is officially published by the Biology Section of the National Speleological Society!
August 2013: Presented at the 2013 National Speleological Society Convention in Shippenburg, PA.
July 2013: More caving fieldwork in Tennessee and Alabama.
July 2013: Paper on consersation assessments of cryptic lineages of cavefishes published in Biodiversity and Conservation (with G.O. Graening, Dante Fenolio, Jim Godwin, Jim Cooley, Bill Pearson, Tom Near & Ben Fitzpatrick).
June 2013: Caving fieldwork in Tennessee and Alabama.
May 2013: Stygobromus Working Group meeting in Knoxville, TN.
April 2013: Paper on sensory adaptations of fishes to subterranean environments published in BioScience (with Daphne Soares).
April 2013: Paper on the effects of climate and geological process on the evolution history of the Northern Cavefish published in Evolution (with Rob McCandless, Graham Reynolds, James Caddle, Christopher Tillquist, Bill Pearson, Tom Near & Ben Fitzpatrick).
March 2013: Paper on hearing loss in amblyopsid cavefishes published in Biology Letters (with Daphne Soares & Dennis Higgs).