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I teach in the General Education and Wildlife curricula. I use active learning to show how collaboration, data science, and computer programming is a necessary tool for saving organisms from extinctionVOSviewer
Courses
- WEDRWorking with Ecological Data in R
- ICInsects and Culture
- GSNRGlobal Sustainability and Natural Resources
- ABAnimal Behavior
- SENRESustainable Earth: Natural Resources and the Environment
Grants
- Data and Community Science - Getting Minoritized Undergraduates into the Field of Data Science for Public Interest
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$90.0K
Active - Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Building Capacity in Data Science through Biodiversity, Conservation, and General Education
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$1.0M
Active - Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Building Capacity in Data Science through Biodiversity, Conservation, and General Education
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$173.4K
Active - Citizen Science and Wildlife Monitoring Research
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$25.6K
- Monitoring Rare Moths of the Desert Southwest
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$15.0K
News
- Dramatic Decline in Western Butterfly Populations Linked to Fall Warming
2021
- Bee Afraid ... 'Murder Hornets' are Here
2020
- A Tasty Florida Butterfly Turns Sour
2019
- The Butterfly Effect and the Future of Teaching Biology
2018
- Citizen Science Program Has a Research Payoff
2018
- Protection of Pollinator World Is Important to Agriculture
2016
- Get Bugged (and Like It) at Insect Festival
2015
- Growing Up With the AZ Insect Festival
2015
- IBSB Plans May Research Symposium
2004
Publications (41)
Recent
- Botanical Gardens Are Local Hotspots for Urban Butterflies in Arid Environments
2022
- COVID-19 impacts on participation in large scale biodiversity-themed community science projects in the United States
2021
- Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West
2021
- Climate Change and Local Host Availability Drive the Northern Range Boundary in the Rapid Expansion of a Specialist Insect Herbivore, Papilio cresphontes
2021
- Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment
2021
- COVID-19 impacts on participation in large scale community science projects in the United States.
2020
- Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly
2019
- Estimating the annual distribution of monarch butterflies in Canada over 16 years using citizen science data
2019
- Creating the Urban Farmer's Almanac with Citizen Science Data
2019
- Creating the urban farmer’s almanac with citizen science data
2019
- Exploring how climate will impact plant-insect distributions and interactions using open data and informatics
2018
- Sex differences in 20-hydroxyecdysone hormone levels control sexual dimorphism in bicyclus anynana wing patterns
2018
- BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene
2018
- Comparisons of Citizen Science Data-Gathering Approaches to Evaluate Urban Butterfly Diversity
2018
- Sex differences in 20-hydroxyecdysone hormone levels control sexual dimorphism in Bicyclus anynana butterfly wing patterns
2017
- Steroid hormone signaling during development has a latent effect on adult male sexual behavior in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana
2017
- eButterfly: leveraging massive online citizen science for butterfly conservation
2017
- Symposium: Keeping Science in Citizen Science
2016
- Differential Expression of Ecdysone Receptor Leads to Variation in Phenotypic Plasticity across Serial Homologs
2015
- Eyespots deflect predator attack increasing fitness and promoting the evolution of phenotypic plasticity
2014
- Temporal gene expression variation associated with eyespot size plasticity in Bicyclus anynana
2013
- Developmental plasticity in sexual roles of butterfly species drives mutual sexual ornamentation
2011
- Multiple approaches to study color pattern evolution in butterflies
2010
- Are mimics monophyletic? the necessity of phylogenetic hypothesis tests in character evolution
2010
- Predation on Animals
2009
- Once a Batesian mimic, not always a Batesian mimic: mimic reverts back to ancestral phenotype when the model is absent
2008
- Adults and nymphs do not smell the same: The different defensive compounds of the giant mesquite bug (Thasus neocalifornicus: Coreidae)
2008
- Adaptive evolution of color vision as seen through the eyes of butterflies
2007
- The signal environment is more important than diet or chemical specialization in the evolution of warning coloration
2007
- Isolation, identification, and quantification of potential defensive compounds in the viceroy butterfly and its larval host-plant, Carolina willow
2007
- Parasitism rates in larval Lycaena xanthoides (Godart) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and a new host record for Cotesia theclae (Riley) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
2007
- Aposematic coloration, luminance contrast, and the benefits of conspicuousness
2007
- BOULDER COUNTY OPEN SPACE BUTTERFLY DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE
2006
- BOULDER COUNTY OPEN SPACE BUTTERFLY DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE: Ecological Archives E087-061
2006
- Soil nutrient effects on oviposition preference, larval performance, and chemical defense of a specialist insect herbivore
2005
- A new parasitoid of Danaus gilippus thersippus (Nymphalidae: Danainae) in southeastern Arizona
2005
- Effects of Local Habitat Characteristics and Landscape Context on Grassland Butterfly Diversity
2003
- Candidate gene analysis of metamorphic timing in ambystomatid salamanders.
2003
- Evaluating a putative mimetic relationship between two butterflies, Adelpha bredowii and Limenitis lorquini
2002
- Molecular and morphological evidence reveals three species within the California sister butterfly, Adelpha bredowii (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae)
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