Areas of research expertise:

• Tropical and coral reef ecology
• Ecology of iguanid lizards
• Biology of desert invertebrates

Student thesis topics - a sampling:

• Ben Stevens-- Lichen communities on Black oak in the San Bernardino mountains.  An ecological survey relative to oxidant air pollutants, revisted.
• Guisselles Torre-- Fog precipitation in the cloud forest of Volcano Mombacho Natural Reserve, Nicuaragua.
• Kelly Spencer-- Salmonella incidence in the western fence lizard Sceloporus occidentalis longipes.  Is there a correlation to fitness?
• Zandy Chinte-- Germination efficiency of Prunus ilicifolia seeds egested by the California black bear, Ursus americanas.
• Mindy Salazar-- A faunal comparison of queen conch (Strombus gigas) shell communities of Belize, Central America.
• Ron Fauntleroy-- Incidence of Salmonella in fecal samples of the Iguanid lizard Sceloporus occidentalis longipes.
• Tracey Owens-- Population density of the long snout seahorse Hippocampus reidi  in disturbed and undisturbed mangrove habitats of Twin Cayes, Belize.
• Stamps, Andrew--Species diversity of small mammals within burned and unburned chaparral sites.