About Me
This is me. And also a coreid.
I am currently a Master’s student in biology and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas at Arlington, where I study patterns of skeletal growth and development in reptiles and amphibians. My current projects include emydid turtles, tiger salamanders and living crocodilians; I’ve also done a little bit of work with fossil crocodylomorphs as an undergraduate researcher. I am very broadly interested in addressing the question of how changes in developmental strategies can effect large-scale changes in vertebrate morphology. I received my Bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado, where I worked on crocodiles in a fossil insect lab (it totally made sense at the time). As an undergraduate, I’ve held internships at the Denver Zoo (where I worked at the reptile house), and at the Field Museum in Chicago (in the entomology collection). I am very easily distracted by shiny new model organisms.
In addition to my studies as a biologist, I keep a number of pet reptiles (also a cat and a puppy, but they are less impressive). My animals have been featured in community outreach and education events; most are rescues.
In my free time, I’m a queer atheist with a passion for bad science fiction and expensive tea.
Bill D.
25 Jan, 2012
Hi, I invited your photo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/medusasnail/5501393126 to two my my groups on Flickr, please respond