current projects

Agard, Christopher R.; 7/1-7/28. Howard University, Biology Dept., 2600 6^th St. NW, Washington, DC 20059. The Effects of Tail Loss on Lizards: Sceloporus jarrovii and S. virgatus: Escape Behavior. cragard@gmail.com

Arreola, Daniel; 04/04-04/07. Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences, Tempe, AZ 85287-0104, USA. Migrant Impacts on National Forest Environments: A Preliminary Mapping in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. arreolad@asu.edu

Barton, Drew; 01/26-01/28. University of Maine at Farmington, 173 High Street, Preble Hall, Dept. of Natural Science, Farmington, ME 04938, USA. Impacts of drought and altered fire regime on Madrean pine-oak forest in an Arizona Sky Island. Barton@maine.edu

Bonebrake, Timothy C.; 8/1/08-8/29/08. Stanford University, Dept.of Biology, 371 Serra mall, Stanford, CA 94305-5020. Climate, ecophysiology, and evolution within the temperate/tropical range of a butterfly. tcbone@stanford.edu; www.stanford.edu/~tcbone .

Brown, Chris; 06/02-06/15. Tennessee Tech University, Dept. of Biology, Box 5063, Cookeville, TN 38505. Assessment of predation risk by the use of chemical cues in the riparian wolf spider Pardosa valens. cabrown@tntech.edu

Chunco, Amanda; 7/1-8/15. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Biology, CB#3280, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280. Ecological correlates of hybridization in a Spea bombifrons x S. multiplicata hybrid zone. Chunco@email.unc.edu

Cooper, Bill; 5/19-6/4. Indiana University Purdue University, Dept. of Biology, IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46835. Antipredatory behavior in lizards: escap, refuge use, and predator monitoring. copperw@ipfw.edu; http://users.ipfw.edu/CooperW/ .

Crews, David; 05/31-6/18. University of Texas at Austin, Patterson Laboratories, 1 University Station Stop C 0930, Austin, TX 78712, USA. Evolution of brain-behavior controlling mechanisms (in Cnemidophorus lizards). crews@mail.utexas.edu

Dyer, Lee; 6/17-6/25 & 8/07-8/13. Tulane University, 400 Boggs EBIO, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118, USA . Climate change and multi-trophic interactions. ldyer@tulane.edu

Gordon, Deborah M; 8/3-8/27. Stanford University, Dept. of Biology, Stanford, CA 94305-5020. Behavior ecology of harvester ants. dmgordon@stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/

Martin, Ryan; 7/3-8/26. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 3280 Coker Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Resource Polymorphism and the Ecological Origins of Phenotypic Diversity. martinra@email.unc.edu; http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/pfennig/Lab/Welcome.html_

Middendorf, George; 7/1-7/28. Howard University, Dept. of Biology, Washington, DC 20059. Behavioral Ecology of Sceloporus jarrovii and Other Sympatric Lizards. gmiddendorf@howard.edu ; http://138.238.136.125/

Nelson, Gordon and Shirley; 03/23-03/30. University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario, N3G 1L2, Canada. The San Pedro Region: A study in land use history, landscape change and planning. jgnelson@fes.uwaterloo.ca

Nichols, James; 04/05-04/08. Edinburgh University, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Ashworth Labs, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, United Kingdom. Global Evolution of communities associated with Oak and Rose cynipid galls. james.nicholls@ed.ac.uk

Ober, Karen; 8/15/2008-8/18/2008. College of the Holy Cross, 1 College St., Worcester, MA 01610. Biogeograpy and genetic divergence of Scaphinotus petersi beetles. kober@holycross.edu; www.holycross.edu/departments/biology/kober/hober.html .

Plowes, Nicola Joy Raine; 7/20/08-8/3/08. University of Connecticut, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept., 75 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3043. Individual and Collective Behavior During Ritual Territorial Battles in Honey Pot Ants (Hymenoptera: Myrmecocystus). Nicola.plowes@uconn.edu; http://www.eeb.nconn.edu/people/plowes/ .

Sanders, Nathan; 08/12-08/17. University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Knoxville, TN 37996. Ant Population Dynamics. nsanders@utk.edu

Savage, James; 4/7/08-6/20/08. Centre for Ecological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. Ecology of the Mexican Jay. James.Savage@cantab.net ; http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/ctr/staff/piotr.htm ; http://web.neurobio.arizona.edu/Lab/piotr.htm

Sherbrooke, Wade; 05/15-06/15. Southwestern Research Station/American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West @ 79^th St., New York, NY 10024. Horned lizards: predator-prey interactions. wcs@amnh.org

Weiss, Stacey; 04/14-06/28. University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St. #1088, Tacoma, WA 98416-1088. Communication signals of female striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus). Email: sweiss@ups.edu.