News | Nicole F. Angeli Herpetology Conservation

2018: The Lizard Lady/La dama de las Siguanas comes out in ONE month.

~~Get it in Spanish, too! Click the photo to head over and buy it.~~

2017: An interview for Smithsonian Insider talking about my favorite study animal - St. Croix ground lizards. Thanks for a great interview, John!

~~MONGOOSE WIPED THEM OUT. NOW NICOLE ANGELI WANTS THE ST. CROIX GROUND LIZARD HOME AGAIN~~

2017: A not-so-short thread detailing some of my thoughts on #animalsPosthurricane

~~Twitter thread of my thoughts on hurricanes and the resilience of wildlife.~~

2017: Earther interview about this year's hurricane season and unusual intensity.

~~Beautiful sunsets have returned, but are the wildlife resilient? I spoke with Earther about potential impacts to animals after hurricanes.~~

2017: Inverse interview about snakes in your plumbing...I do love snakes...maybe not in my toilet!

~~Inverse magazine asked me why snakes might be in your plumbing.~~

2017: Excited to join my postdoc lab at Alabama Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit (and get some spiffy pro photos)

~~Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University~~

2017: Johns Hopkins Magazine feature!

~~The Futures that Follow - Johns Hopkins followed up with six former Woodrow Wilson Fellows. Proud to be asked to share my story!~~

2017 TAMU Kunze Award winner!

Nicole is honored to receive the Kunze Award from the TAMU graduate school. The annual Kunze Award honors a doctoral student who displays superior academic achievement, one or more publications in refereed journals of national or international stature, and good citizenship.

2017: Earth Optimism Summit - https://earthoptimism.si.edu/

~~I spent Sunday, April 23 sharing the amazing science leading the St. Croix ground lizard to recovery with teens and the public at NMNH!~~

2017: Expert is In at National Museum of Natural Science

~~On Thursday, April 13, I was an NMNH 'Expert is In'. Over 60 people stopped to hear 'Why aren't St. Croix ground lizards on St. Croix?'~~

2017: Gizmodo interview on biodiversity!

"Nicole F. Angeli, a herpetologist...agreed that this sort of research is crucial to the future of conservation efforts in the Western Ghats and beyond. “Research on diversity in our world helps us to identify unique genes, organisms, and ecosystems,” she told Gizmodo. “Biologists are racing to identify what makes our world unique today, despite losses and before losses, in hopes that this knowledge is useful for conservation prioritization and future innovation.”

2016: Smithsonian Peer-Led Bioinformatics Workshop is available online.

~~Find Dec 2016 Rmarkdown file and data at SI Github.~~

2016: Camile Borja, my summer intern at NMNH, wrote a blog for the Global Genome Institute.

2016: #HERpers went viral in Feb 2016!

~~Nicole's fingernails were famous for a minute in the Twitterverse.~~

2015: NPS public lecture in Christiansted, St. Croix and feature in the St. Croix Source!!

2015: Virgin Islands Consortium publicized the Oct 2015 NPS public lecture with a great St. Croix ground lizard layout!

2015: Eva María Rivera Meléndez created a website for her UPR-Mayaguëz Práctica Co-op!

2015: Kristina, Kaycee, and I co-authored a note on Ameiva exsul!

~~Angeli, N., Chyn, K., and Faunce, K. 2015. Ameiva exsul (Puerto Rican ground lizard) REPRODUCTION. Herpetological Review. 46(2): 249-250.~~

2014: Kaycee created a website because #YoheartSiguana

~~Field tech/volunteer Kaycee Faunce created a website for the ground lizard project: Ground Lizard Research Initiative (click picture for link)~~

2014: Applied Biodiversity Sciences NSF-IGERT program's student spotlight

~~Excited to join the amazing ABS students in writing about my work and hopes for the future.~~

2013: Buck Island, U.S. Virgin Islands team witnessed novel burrowing behavior of Ameiva polops at the end of a long workday.

~~Angeli, N., K. Auer, N. Schwartz, Z. Westfall, C. Pollock, I. Lundgren, and Z. Hillis-Starr. 2013. Ameiva polops (St. Croix Ground Lizard) Behavior. Herpetological Review. 44(3): 504.~~

2013: Cameron Venable presented a poster on our work in Puerto Rico.

~~Cameron Venable was awarded an Arnold Experiential Education Grant from Lebanon Valley College.~~

2013: St. Croix Avis wrote an article about the May NPS public lecture.

2013: St. Croix Source article on 2013 NPS public lecture.

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