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November 2024: Our paper with Dr. Brad Carlson on box turtle personality was covered in an episode of the podcast Herpetological Highlights

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January 2024: Dr. Josh Otten, lab alum, discusses the 10-year anniversary of the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill – the subject of his PhD dissertation at U Toledo – on Fox 17 Kalamazoo

 

June 2023: PhD student Josh Otten’s paper in Conservation Science and Practice on the effectiveness of translocation as a conservation tool was featured by Fox 17 Kalamazoo and The Wildlife Society

 

September 2022: PhD student Josh Otten’s paper in Environmental Pollution on how the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill impacted turtle survival was featured by The Wildlife Society, the Toledo Blade, Michigan Public Radio, and Discourse on Development

 

August 2021: Our paper on how harmful algal blooms affect wildlife health in Science of the Total Environment was featured by Yahoo News, The Wildlife Society, the Toledo Blade, and ABC13 Toledo

 

December 2020: Tyara Vazquez’s MS research on effects of climate change on desert lizards was featured by The Wildlife Society

 

July 2020: Josh Otten’s PhD research on the long-term effects of the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill on turtles was featured by Michigan Public Radio (WMUK) and Great Lakes Now

 

June 2018: Our paper on lizards responding to climate change by changing their behavior in Functional Ecology was featured by UToledo News

 

March 2018: Our recent State Wildlife Grant to study landscape-scale productivity by declining turtle and woodpecker species in the Oak Opening region was featured by UToledo News

 

August 2017: The NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates Program run by Dr. Refsnider at the Lake Erie Center was featured by the University of Toledo

 

July 2017: Jessica Garcia’s MS research on harmful algal bloom effects on turtles was featured by ABC13 Toledo, WTOL 11, the University of Toledo, and UToledo News

 

June 2017: Dr. Refsnider discusses climate change’s impacts on reptiles in Nat Geo News

 

December 2015: Our paper in Genes, Genomes, and Genetics on how the chytrid fungus, which causes a fatal skin disease in frogs, becomes less virulent after lab culturing was featured by the Genes to Genomes Blog

 

April 2014: Dr. Refsnider discusses climate change’s impacts on reptiles in Science News Explores

 

March 2014: Dr. Refsnider discusses the challenges of studying how climate change affects reptiles in Grist

 

January 2014: Our paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society on how songbirds optimize nest-site choice was featured in The Economist and The Scientist

 

June 2011: Dr. Refsnider’s field research on how turtles respond to climate change was featured in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge’s (New Mexico) newsletter