The scientific benefits of promoting your research
Recently, two colleagues of mine, James Nifong and Russ Lowers, published a really interesting paper about alligators and sharks eating...
Trump's budget could hurt Jacksonville
Originally published in The Florida Times-Union on September 6, 2017 In August I moved to Jacksonville to become an Assistant Professor...
Concerned about national security? Then fight climate change!
Originally published on the Sci on the Fly blog on July 27, 2017 Climate change is most commonly thought of as an environmental and...
Science and clarity in the chemical fog of war
This is a piece I co-wrote with Robert Fares and others that originally appeared in War on the Rocks on May 3, 2017 The recent March for...
The president should heed the business community on climate change
Originally published on the Sci on the Fly blog on April 7, 2017 President Trump is a businessman. His goals have included minimizing...
In defense of swamps and alligators
Recent political discourse in the United States has been, shall we say, lacking in civility. Then again, we’re talking about politics, a...
Gearing up for field work
I took a trip up to Yale-Myers Forest in northeastern Connecticut today to check on the experimental cages that I left in the field all...
Field biologists on film: the good and the bad
Science and Hollywood have always had a complicated relationship: filmmakers love using scientific ideas to drive storylines, but they...
Animals encountered in New England
Originally published on the Schmitz Lab blog on October 8, 2015 I spent the summer traveling all over New England collecting grasshoppers...
Research in Guyana (part 2)
Originally published on the Schmitz Lab blog on May 5, 2014 Catching caimans is not that complicated. First, you get in a boat at night,...