Education:

• Ph.D. (Zoology) University of Nottingham (1984)
• B.Sc. (Zoology) King's College, London (1980)

Appointments:

• University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
• University of Bristol, UK (Temporary Lecturer)
• University of Zimbabwe (Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow)
• Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London (Postdoctoral Researcher)
• University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Royal Society European Exchange Programme Research Fellow)

Research Interests:

• Animal ecology and conservation
• Ecological physiology
• Herpetology

Current Graduate Students:

• Daveka Boodram (M.Phil.) Ecology of the white-tailed sabrewing hummingbird on Tobago.
• Michelle Cazabon (M.Phil.) Distribution and abundance of hawksbill and green turtles on Tobago and an assessment of their value in the ecology and economy of the island.
• Kerrie Naranjit (M.Phil.) Ecology of the Trinidad piping-guan or pawi.
• Nicole Sookoo (M.Phil.) Ecotoxicology of pesticides in tropical frogs.
• Jo-Anne Sewlal (Ph.D.) Contribution of habitat diversity to the biodiversity of orb-weaving spiders in Trinidad.

Current Research Projects:

• Formation of an ecological community - invasive Anolis species in Trinidad
• Surveys of the sabrewing hummingbird and pawi
• Ecology, ecophysiology and ecotoxicology of tropical amphibians and reptiles
• Population dynamics of Greek tortoise populations

Professional Memberships (*current):

• Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, UK (Ethics Committee)*
• Biodiversity Advisory Council, Trinidad and Tobago
• Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (MIEEM)
• IUCN  Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group*
• IUCN-UK Committee
• Managing Editor, Applied Herpetology

 

Bibliography:

• Full list (with abstracts and pdfs)

 

Referee for the Journals (102 papers):

• Acta Herpetologica (Italy)

• African Journal of Ecology (UK)

• African Journal of Herpetology (South Africa)

• African Zoology (South Africa)

• Amphibia-Reptilia (Netherlands)

• Applied Herpetology (Netherlands)

• Asiatic Herpetological Research (China)

• Australian Journal of Zoology (Australia)

• Behavioral Ecology (USA)

• Biodiversity and Conservation (Netherlands)

• Biologia (Slovakia)

• Biological Conservation (UK)

• Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (UK)

• Bird Conservation International (UK)

• Canadian Journal of Zoology (Canada)

• Chelonian Conservation and Biology (USA)

• Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (UK)

• Contributions to Zoology (Netherlands)

• Ecoscience (Canada)

• Evolutionary Ecology (Netherlands)

• Functional Ecology (UK)

• Herpetologica (USA)

• Herpetological Journal (UK)

• Herpetological review (USA)

• Italian Journal of Zoology (Italy)

• Journal of Applied Ecology (UK)

• Journal of Herpetology (USA)

• Journal of Tropical Ecology (UK)

• Journal of Zoology (UK)

• Living World (Trinidad and Tobago)

• Miscellania Zoologica (Spain)

• Oecologia (Germany)

• Oikos (Sweden)

• Oryx (UK)

• South African Journal of Zoology (South Africa)

• Zoo Biology (USA)

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