Assistant Professor of Biology at Cal State Long Beach (Jan 2025) Commander of the BREE Lab: Behavior, Reptiles, Ecology & Evolution. #HERper & #MomInAcademia
Long Beach, CA
Joined November 2013
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Happily processing lizards in the kitchen, I mean “lab” 😉. We are looking at the indirect effects of cats 🐈 on animals!
It’s finally out! Our paper looking at predation risk and dorsal darkness in lizards after wildfires 🔥🦎. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73673
Team #Ctenosaura absolutely crushed it! I’m so impressed with them on conceptualizing a study, collecting and analyzing data, presenting results and writing a research report in just a couple of days (& thanks to the lizards of course). Congrats team!
Major #rattlesnake find on last night’s Herp walk 🐍🙌. Crotalus simus in the dry tropical forest.
Excited to be back in #CostaRica - this time at the beautiful Palo Verde wetlands - for the @tropicalstudies Tropical Biology course. I’m working with students on spiny-tailed iguana research. 🦎🌴😎
Im honored to have co-mentored Julian as part of the research training program (UNLAB) at @NHMLA. He presented his work at the end-of-year symposium in the new museum Commons and his talk was EXCELLENT! Congrats on all the hard work.
Our article is finally published in The American Biology Teacher on ways to use animal behavior data from @inaturalist photos in college classes. doi.org/10.1525/abt.2025.87.…
I’m in downtown Long Beach for the Global Sustainable Insurance Summit speaking about wildfires🔥, biodiversity 🌎, and INSURANCE 📈!!! A great networking and outreach opportunity along the beautiful bay!
The @lbcurrent made a video of our urban lizard research highlighting student involvement on campus! We are studying the impact of irrigation on animal hydration 💦🦎. Check it out: youtu.be/REnrrAi-0vg?feature…
We had a crazy week catching and processing hundreds of lizards from 11 SoCal colleges for our Cool Lizards in the City project! We are seeing if irrigation impacts animal hydration…will urban lizards be less dehydrated? With @snakeymama and Kinsey Brock. Stay tuned!
My favorite #lizard profiled in the LA Times with commentary by yours truly! Just in time for the #CityNatureChallenge! latimes.com/environment/stor…
The major find on our first @CSULB Herpetology field trip - a cute 🥰 CA King Snake 🐍 . Every student had to hold it! #LearnByDoing #OvercomingFears #SnekFriends
I’m featured in the CSULB newspaper @lbcurrent! I’m excited to start working with LB students on reptile biology! lbcurrent.com/artslife/2025/…
Starting off my 1st semester at @CSULB with a new article in Ecology and Evolution on ventral patch sizes in urban western fence lizards. Urban lizards had larger relative throat patches than non-urban lizards! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7091…
Excellent work conducted by CSUSB students @UrquidiRae @citrinepoppy and Bayley Stevens (not on X)
I’m excited to announce the successful thesis defenses of Elmer and Emily - the first BREE Lab students to attain their masters degree! It’s been an honor to share our journeys at CSUSB together.
Do you have HOBO temp/humidity data loggers we can borrow for a study on lizard ecophysiology in urban areas? Please let us know 🙏🙏🙏 and spread the word!
Our TREE paper on leveraging #ArtificialIntelligence to improve evidence synthesis in #conservation is now out! It’s been an honor to be part of this esteemed group of 🌎 international researchers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1j8oN…
Congrats to Elmer for successfully proposing his thesis today! He has worked so hard on this project and it’s been a pleasure to see him grow into an excellent field biologist over the years. 🌲🦎🔥
Read about BREE Lab member Daisy’s research in the new #CSUSB grad student research blog! She is looking at how urbanization affects #lizard morphology and performance. 🦎🏃♀️tinyurl.com/27usuudb