The end of the year traditionally requires an accounting of said year – and a very good year it was! I added 41 notches to my life list, got out in the field with lots of old friends, and made some new ones along the way. Here are some highlight reels for your enjoyment. In January I went to Georgia with some friends on behalf of the HerpMapper project. HerpMapper was establishing a relationship with Project Orianne, and one of the side benefits of the trip was spending a day looking for Eastern Indigo Snakes with the Orianne survey crew. Success? You bet! Over thirty feet of Indigo – six specimens, the largest at just under seven feet. Frogs…
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KHS 42nd Annual Meeting
It’s a long way from my house to Hays, Kansas. Eleven hours behind the wheel is enough to make one wobbly, wild-eyed and weary, but the annual meeting of the Kansas Herpetological Society was worth it. A big part of the KHS meeting are the presentations that occupy the daytime hours. Listening to herpetologists speak on a variety of topics is an intellectually energizing experience, even when the details may be over my head. I don’t know much about P-values or Bayesian inferences, but I can ponder the big questions as well as anyone. Eli Greenbaum from the U of T – El Paso was the keynote speaker. His topic: “Mambas, Malaria, and Militias: 21st Century Herpetology in the Jungles…
