We pursue a variety of questions in the lab, but the primary focus is to investigate patterns of reptile and amphibian biodiversity and seek solutions to maintaining that diversity on a changing planet.
Population and Community Dynamics
What can we learn from the past to inform predictions of future resilience?
The genomic signature of the late Quaternary can inform us about population and community-wide responses to past climate change. Using forecast climate models, genetic and ecological data, we can make predictions about how future change will differentially impact reptile and amphibian species.
Biodiversity and Systematics
How does biological diversity originate and persist through challenging conditions?
We us genomic techniques integrated with ecological and natural history data to investigate the evolutionary processes and ecological drivers that have jointly produced the amazing patterns of biological diversity we see in our world today.
Conservation Management
How can we leverage natural history collections to inform conservation initiatives?
Our lab utilizes techniques from population genomics coupled with information gathered from historical collections to help monitor the health of vulnerable populations.
Biodiversity & Global Change Lab 