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It’s the middle of the summer in Auburn, AL… [caption id=“attachment_666” align=“alignnone” width=“3088”] This hatchling successfully hatched! It was alive.[/caption] This summer I’m running a lab experiment to test whether nest sites that urban-dwelling female crested anoles in Miami, FL use will yield higher survival than random sites.

The Warner Lab just wrapped up the first 2018 field trip. The main objectives for this trip include collecting lizards for Jenna’s project, taking way-point averages of trees on some of Dan’s islands, introducing our new post-doc Amelie to the study system, and clearing Tim’s CB1 and CB2 islands

[caption id=“attachment_651” align=“alignnone” width=“1281”] Phil, Jenna, I, and Josh representing the Warner Lab at the Anolis Symposium (PC: Jessica Pita)[/caption] We just got back from hot and tropical Miami this week with heaps of lizards!

This past weekend I attended the 2018 Annual Southeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation meeting at Unicoi State Park, Helen, GA. I had a stimulating time going to talks, presenting, reconnecting with friends and meeting new people who are enthusiastic about herpetofauna.

Happy New Year! 2017 was an amazing year filled with new experiences and friendships. None of it would have been possible without the support of my family and the Warner Lab.

Since our university was on Thanksgiving Break (3rd week of November). I had the honour of visiting Josh Hall’s family in West Tennessee. Josh and I collaborate on a series of projects to study how invasive lizards might be adapted to urban adaptation so we’ve gone down to Miami, FL together a couple times.

This past weekend, my advisor - Dan Warner - and I attended the 2017 Alabama Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation meeting at The _Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center. _While our lab’s research interest is not focused on conservation of reptiles and amphibians in the state of Alabama, we were there to share our work on evolution and ecology of invasive anoles in Florida.

A little late on this one but here are some pictures from our October field work in Palm Coast, FL. Tim, Jenna, Dan, me, and Renata. Riding the wake Prepping in the morning

James, Gopal, and I co-wrote a version of this digest for Travis Hagey’s (and colleagues) study on convergence evolution of toe pads. Check out the paper in Evolution along with our Digest

[gallery ids=“518,517,519” type=“rectangular”] The first week of setting up the experiment was very productive thanks to Dan, Josh, Nathaniel, and James. We set up our study sites (8 plots) and placed the lizard cages we built in a secure space.