GRADUATE STUDENTS (Master of Science in Biological Sciences)
Rachel Hester (current) “Effects of temperature on bite-force variables in the southern alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata)”
Kieran Murray (current) “Predation on Californian native wildlife by invasive American bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) in a suburban nature preserve”
Daniel Sebastian (2025) “Bite-force performance: a review of method standardization and an experiment with chameleons”
John Taylor (2024) “Factors influencing the occurrence of nocturnal snakes on southern California roads”
Anthony Powell (2022) “Sustained force production by jaw muscles of specialized megalophagous frogs (Ceratophrys spp.)”
Desiree Rogers (2019) “Effects of temperature on dragonfly nymph prey-strike performance”
Pablo Garcia (2019) “Effects of bite out-lever and gape angle on bite-force performance in the brown anole (Anolis sagrei)”
Allyn Nguyen (2018) “The ‘love bite’: fatigue resistant jaw-adductor muscles allow long-lasting courtship behavior in the Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata)”
Jeffrey Modlin (2017) “Geometric morphometric analysis highlights feeding apparatus specialization and sexual dimorphism in crotaphytid lizards”
Kameron Roth (2016) “Territory establishment and maintenance in the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) and the side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) as determined with time-lapse imaging”
Thomas (Tony) Marino (2015) “Sexual dimorphism of the southern alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata) and northern alligator lizard (E. coerulea) in California”
Cassandra Stepp-Bolling (2012) “Temperature effects on strike performance of the southern Pacific rattlesnake (Crotalus helleri)”
Sean Wilcox (2012) “The role of swimming performance during cannibalistic interactions in green poison frog larvae (Dendrobates auratus)”
Aik Roy Heng (2011) “Specialized wet adhesion mechanism facilitates mechanical energy storage to power ballistic prey capture in toads”
Par Singhaseni (2011) “The effects of irrigation on the dietary ecology of the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)”
Molly Peters (2011) “Thermal preferences and cutaneous resistance to evaporative water loss of sympatric chorus frogs (Pseudacris cadaverina and P. hypochondriaca) in southern California
