"Given the rapid loss of species now occurring as the result of human actions and society's related manifold social and environmental problems, training in natural history should receive high priority. A natural history orientation is needed now more than ever before-since "civilization" began severing humanity's ties with the natural world. Yet growing urbanization, which separates people from nature, and an academic mindset that nature study is old fashion and lacking in scientific rigor(sometimes justified) impede corrective action." - Robert C. Stebbins

I currently the sit on the board of directors and am the chairman for conservation for The Southwestern Center For Conservation and Southwestern Herpetology Society.

I am a naturalist who has authored several papers and notes within SWCHR Bulletin and has been acknowledged in two books. My main interest is in herpetology is in Microscopy, quantitative, qualitative natural history and conservation of the geographical areas of the American southwest, Mesoamerica.

Herpetolocuture interest is in managing a genetic and physical healthy diverse collection of reptilia of the American Southwest and Meso America while focusing on enrichment and improving captive husbandry. Teratology, embryonic and developmental physiology as it applies to adaptation and natural selection. Captive reptiles and amphibians offer an opportunity to study aspects of their behavior which are just not observable in the wild for most species. For example, Walter Auffenberg used captive Varanus olivaceus to obtain much of the data on behavior (1988 Gray's Monitor Lizard). His work on V. bengalensis (1994 The Bengal Monitor) relies heavily on observations made on a captive group he kept at his Florida home. Such phenomena as sleeping and walking periods, walking and climbing speeds, and behavior related to feeding, courtship, and combat all lend themselves to analysis in captive specimens. One great advantage of studying such behaviors in captive animals is that comparative data can be gathered under controlled conditions...

Journals

~ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" - Carl Sagan ~

1) SSAR - https://ssarherps.org

Journal of Herpetology - http://www.bioone.org/loi/hpet
and
Herpetological Review - https://ssarherps.org/publications/herpetological-review/

2) Herpetology League - http://herpetologistsleague.org

3) American Society of Ichthyologist and herpetologist - http://www.asih.org/

4) Southwestern Association of Naturalist - http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/swan/swaneng.html

5) Western North American Naturalist - https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/

6) American Society of Naturalist - http://www.amnat.org/home.html

7) Toxicon - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/toxicon/

8) Mesoamerican herpetology - http://mesoamericanherpetology.com/index.html

9) Herpetological Conservation and Biology - http://www.herpconbio.org/

10) The Journal of North American Herpetology - http://jnah.cnah.org

11) Amphibian and Reptile Conservation - http://www.amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/issues.html

12) American Museum Novitates - http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/9

13) PloS Biology - http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

14) Molecular Biology and evolution - https://academic.oup.com/mbe

15) British Herpetology Society - https://thebhs.org/

16) Systematic Biology - https://academic.oup.com/sysbio

17) The American Midland Naturalist - http://www.bioone.org/loi/amid

18) Evolution - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1558-5646

19) Cladistics - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1096-0031

20) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/molecular-phylogenetics-and-evolution

21) Molecular Ecology - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-294X

22) Toxins - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/toxins

23) PloS Neglected Tropical Disease - http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/

24) International Reptile conservation Foundation - http://www.ircf.org/journal/

25) Bionomina https://www.mapress.com/bn/issue/archive

26) Herpetology Notes - https://www.biotaxa.org/hn

Websites -

1) Califronia Natural Resource Association - http://resources.ca.gov/

2) California Department of Fish and Game - https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/

3)California USGS - https://www.usgs.gov/science/regions/southwest/california?qt-states_l2_landing_page_tabs=0#qt-states_l2_landing_page_tabs

4) California US Forest Service - https://www.fs.fed.us/fs-tags/california

5) California State Park - https://www.parks.ca.gov/

6) BLM California - California - https://www.blm.gov/california

7) Mojave Watch - https://www.mojavewatch.org/

8) The Center For North American Herpetology - http://cnah.org/

9) Southwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation - http://www.swparc.org/

10) Southern California Chapter Wildlife Society - https://wildlife.org/tag/california/

11) USARK - http://usark.org

12) Joshua tree National Park - https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm

13) Mojave Desert National Preserve - https://www.nps.gov/moja/index.htm

14) Death Valley https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm

4) MSB Amphibians and Reptiles: publications based on specimens - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=70GWx7AAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&view_op=list_works&citft=1&citft=2&citft=3&email_for_op=chuckwalla007%40yahoo.com&gmla=AJsN-F5ozywOIhTXVxHTou9YiTzqG77xXvTvMc0bJWfuvRI65ci0cdOQWgr2IUFNP3aFPCcYhp7ulVdhQRtDjPOdoBs1YEuhnVYWdbjc5xTe53byK8o1HCs8YBkSM2y_Lvaa59Zdf_R-0jTRy-prQy8SbFGnDb5uZtczB9SRj4Q5CIgzhD_AjHVkkXB8gkIUv6No4hxEjritOvin2z3ZkK7PoQLndtZCiro3mS_PiRdxCBN7hVvy4UwIwpUKL4-07JvNUG5XL1mi

Field Corse/Education Resources -

~ We know almost exactly how many stars exist in our universe but we have no ideas about the number of animals living on our planet. ~

1) Desert Studies center - https://www.facebook.com/groups/323354281502202/friends/

2) Southwestern Research Station - https://www.amnh.org/our-research/southwestern-research-station

3) Desert tortoise council - https://deserttortoisecouncil.wildapricot.org/page-1075275

4) California Naturalist Program - http://calnat.ucanr.edu

5) iBiology - https://www.ibiology.org/

6) Microbiology Notes - https://microbenotes.com/

7) MicrscopyU - https://www.microscopyu.com/

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Symposiums/