I'm in the final stages of preparing for collecting data for my thesis work, and it looks like it's going to be a busy summer! I'm going to have my committee meeting in a couple weeks, but barring any major changes, this is the plan:

The current ideas are to tackle O. pumilio from a variety of fronts. First, I am going to attempt to figure out population sizes and densities for at least twelve populations (currently going to have more, but the populations I'm going to hit, barring...

I've been developing my proposal for my thesis research and have more or less developed what I want to do for my thesis, but I've got all sorts of ideas for additional projects. As such, I might just stay at Michigan State for my PhD because it would be difficult/annoying to have to relocate what I want to do.

For my thesis, so far, I'm going to approach O. pumilio conservation from four different areas.

First, I am going to go through as many populations as I can...

As you may or may not know, I'm going to study O. pumilio for my graduate research. Summer 2009 will be my first field season where I will collect data for my thesis.

My project is currently evolving, and I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do, but I think my best bet right now is to do population assessment and limiting resources. With the great number of frogs being plucked from the wild, no one really knows what the population sizes are of these frogs in the wild. Having...