Grants and awards

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. University of Massachusetts Boston, 2018
• NSF-DDIG: “Dissertation Research:  Adaptive responses to urbanization in the tropical lizard Anolis cristatellus.” (with L.J. Revell), 2017
• Herpetologists’ League award: best student presentation. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, 2016
• Ehrenfeld Award: best student presentation in urban ecology. Ecological Society of America, 2016
• Bollinger Memorial Research Grant: “Genetic signatures of adaptation to urbanization in a tropical lizard.” University of Massachusetts Boston, 2016
• Gaige Award: “Natural selection in an urban habitat: a mark recapture assessment of the tropical lizardAnolis cristatellus.”American Society for Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, 2014
• Nancy Goranson Endowment Grant: “Urban adaptation in a tropical lizard: Anolis cristatellus.” University of Massachusetts Boston, 2013
• Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles award:best student poster. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, 2013
• Doctoral Fellowship. Univ. Massachusetts Boston, Office of Graduate Studies, 2011-2015

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Invited presentations

• Anoles in the Anthropocene: Adaptation and convergence in a changing world. (2019) Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Urban adaptation: What can a tropical lizard tell us about how species will respond to anthropogenic change? (2019) University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
• Urban ecology and evolution in Puerto Rican Anolis lizards. (2018) University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• Novel habitat use and adaptation in urban lizards. (2018) Moriarty Seminar Series, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• City lizards: How anoles are adapting to a changing world. (2017) University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina
• Fit for urbanization: Novel habitat use and adaptation in a tropical lizard. (2017) Invited Symposium: Synthesis in the City – Urban Evolutionary Ecology. New Phytologist & University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Urban adaptation in lizards: Connecting phenotypic shifts with performance and survival. (2017) Invited Symposium: Evolution in Urban Ecosystems. Evolution, Portland, Oregon
• Ecological and adaptive shifts in urban Anolis lizards in Puerto Rico. (2016) Invited Symposium: A Socio-Ecological Insight from Tropical Regions and Latin America. Ecological Society of America, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
• Adapting to the Anthropocene: How cities impact ecology and evolution of reptiles. (2016) University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

Submitted presentations

• Urban adaptation in anole lizards of the Greater Antilles. (2019) Poster, Evolution, Providence, Rhode Island
• Impacts of urbanization on Anolis. (2019) Oral Presentation, Caribbean Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC), Kingston, Jamaica
• The ecological and evolutionary responses to urbanization in Anolis lizards. (2019) Oral Presentation, Puerto Rican Herpetology Symposium, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
• Ecology and evolution of tropical lizards from forests to urban jungles. (2018) Oral presentation, Washington University.
• Urban evolution in the Puerto Rican crested anole (Anolis cristatellus). (2018) Oral presentation, Evolution, Montpellier, France
• Urban evolution mid-stride: Morphology and performance of urban lizards. (2018) Poster, Evolution, Montpellier, France
• Performance consequences of urban morphological shifts. (2018) Oral presentation, Anolis Symposium VII, Miami, Florida
• Urban tolerance in Caribbean anoles. (2018) Poster, Anolis Symposium VII, Miami, Florida
• Ecological and adaptive shifts in urban Anolis lizards in Puerto Rico. (2016) Oral presentation, Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Evolutionary effects of urbanization on the tropical lizard genus Anolis. (2016) Oral presentation, Evolution, Austin, Texas
• Urban Evolution: Natural selection and genetic basis of phenotypic shifts in urban Anolis cristatellus. (2015) Oral presentation,Evolution, Guaruja, Brazil
• Phenotypic shifts in urban areas in the tropical lizard Anolis cristatellus. (2014) Oral presentation, Evolution, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Refuges for freshwater turtles in human-impacted regions. (2013) Oral presentation, Nantucket Biodiversity Research Conference, Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Phenotypic shifts in urban populations of the tropical lizard, Anolis cristatellus. (2013)Poster, Joint Meeting of Ichtyologists & Herpetologists, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Media and publicity

“Laws of the Lizard” – documentary film, Day’s Edge Productions, Smithsonian Channel (December 2018)

“Recent advances in urban evolution” – print interview, PNAS Front Matter
(December 2018)

“City lizards adapt fast to urban living” – radio interview, Public Radio International: Living on Earth (January 2017)

“Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet” – print interview, New Scientist (April 2017)

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Employment and teaching

• Field Course Instructor: Tropical Biology in Puerto Rico (U. Mass. Boston, 2014-2017)
• Teaching Assistant: Neurobiology (U. Mass. Boston, 2013-2017)
• Biology Content Manager (Boundless Learning, 2011)
• Teaching Assistant: Disease Ecology (Columbia University, 2009-2010)
• Tutor: Biology, Statistics, Algebra, Calculus, and Chemistry (A+ Home Tutors, 2007-2008)
• Curatorial Assistant: Herpetology, Center for Biodiversity & Research Informatics (California Academy of Sciences, 2006-2008)
• Teaching Assistant: General Biology (University of San Francisco, 2002-2006)
• Peer Tutor: Algebra, Statistics, and Calculus (University of San Francisco, 2004-2006)

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Professional affiliations and service

Undergraduate mentoring

• Honor’s Research: Behavioral responses of Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) across varying urban land uses (Liam Engel, Washington University, 2018)
• Undergraduate Research: Variation in claw morphology of urban Anolisfrom the Bahamas and Puerto Rico (Cleo Falvey, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2018)
• Honor’s Research: Injury rates in urban Anolis cristatellus(Derek Briggs, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2017)
• Honor’s Research: Caudal autotomy in urban Anolis cristatellus(Kirsten Tyler, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2014)
• Research Experience for Undergraduates: Variation in tail crests in urban and forest Anolis cristatellus (Sofia Prado-Irwin, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2012)

Peer review                                  

Reviewer for: American Naturalist, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Conservation, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Copeia, Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Evolution, Functional Ecology, Herpetological Conservation and Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Herpetology, Journal of Morphology, Molecular Ecology, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Urban Ecology, Urban Ecosystems

Society Membership

•       American Society of Naturalists, 2015 to present
•       American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, 2012 to present
•       Ecological Society of America, 2016
•       Herpetologists’ League, 2014 to present
•       Society for Conservation Biology, 2006, 2010-2011
•       Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles, 2012 to present
•       Society for the Study of Evolution, 2014 to present