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Jennifer A. Sheridan
Curator of Amphibians & Reptiles Carnegie Museum of Natural History I am broadly interested in ecological responses to changes in both climate and habitat & land use. I mainly utilize frogs as study organisms, but with an eye for how they fit into the ecosystem as a whole. I am interested in supervising students who are keen to address questions related to these topics, regardless of study organism, and welcome collaborations in related fields such as changes in aquatic primary productivity, functional roles of tadpoles in riparian systems, sustainability, and social impacts of oil palm cultivation. |
JOINING OUR TEAM
If you are interested in working on projects examining ecological responses to climate or land use change, particularly ones which utilize the CMNH collections, or a combination of museum collections and field work, please contact me.
We are particularly keen to have students from all Pittsburgh-area universities helping with curatorial activities in the collections, as well partnering with us on capstone projects, independent research, internships, or work-study.
If you are interested in joining us as a post-doc, please contact me with your ideas for how you see yourself fitting in to our research group, and we can discuss paths to funding.
We are particularly keen to have students from all Pittsburgh-area universities helping with curatorial activities in the collections, as well partnering with us on capstone projects, independent research, internships, or work-study.
If you are interested in joining us as a post-doc, please contact me with your ideas for how you see yourself fitting in to our research group, and we can discuss paths to funding.
MUSEUM TEAM
Mariana Marques, Collections Manager
Mariana is a herpetologist dedicated to the management of natural history collections and to the study of the diversity of African amphibians and reptiles. Her research is focused on two main topics: 1) best practices of care and management of natural history collections to maximize the useful lifetime of specimen(s) while promoting specimen-based research, and 2) integrative taxonomy and the evolutionary processes responsible for the diversity and distribution patterns of amphibians and reptiles in sub-Saharan Africa. |
Amanda Martin, Research Associate
Amanda is a former post-doc in the section of amphibians and reptiles. Her research interests include spatial ecology, natural history, and predicting species distributions based on expected land use and climate changes. While at the museum, she conducted pitfall trapping at Powdermill Nature Reserve to examine amphibian & reptile diversity, and more recently we have examined the combined effects of land use and climate change on amphibian body size. Work Study Team
Cullen Hanes Tesa Marchesin Kat Wilson Melissa Bakich Chatham University Chatham U. Duquesne University Duquesne U. 2019-2021 2019-2022 2020-2021 2020-2021 |
FREQUENT COLLABORATORS
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Dr. Pablo Vazquez-Garcia
Research Associate, CMNH |
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