Most of my field experience has been in southern Mexico, where I have focused on herpetological research in diverse, beautiful habitats. There and in the American Southwest I research phenotypic evolution, speciation, and more specifically variation in color, signals, dimorphism, and genetics at the macro- and microevolutionary scales in anoles (Anolis) and tree lizards (Urosaurus). This page summarizes all the fieldwork I have been fortunate to be part of whether North of the Arctic Circle, in my home state of New Mexico, or various regions of Latin America.
American Southwest (May 2021) Collection trip for Urosaurus ornatus and Cophosaurus texanus in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Blair (CUNY). In Texas, I was joined by Dr. David Hillis, Dr. Tom Devitt, Anne Chambers, Thom Marshall, and Ruben Tovar. Later in the summer UNM undergrad and museum technician, Ari Torres, joined in Arizona and New Mexico.
American Southwest (June – July 2020) First collection trip for my dissertation research on Urosaurus ornatus.
Mexico (July – September 2019)
Texas (March 2019)
Mexico (May 2018 – July 2018) – Preliminary data collection for my graduate research in Veracruz and Chiapas, Mexico with Sofia Prado-Irwin and Dr. Levi Gray.
American Southwest (May – June 2015, 2016, 2017) – I have been lucky enough to have multiple opportunities to help survey lizard communities in and around the Mojave Desert with a crew of UC Davis alumni (Dr. Amber Wright, Dr. Anthony J. Barley, Dr. Gregory Pauly, Dr. Levi N. Gray, and Dr. Robert Thomson).
Puerto Rico (July 2017) – Sampling in Puerto Rico with Dr. Ian Wang for a large-scale project on Anolis. To this day, I am struck by the degree of sympatry in these anoles and the seemingly undifferentiated morphology and niche space on the island in some species of the same ecomorphology.
Alaska (September 2017) – I was part of the Deep Nitrogen Roots Crew at the Toolik Field Station which is a collaborative fungal and plant project between the labs of Dr. Lee Taylor and Dr. Michelle Mack. Let me tell you, only scientists would gently pick fine roots from soil for hours at at time and end up with life-long friends!
Belize & Mexico (December 2015 & January 2016) – I helped survey Anolis sagrei in Belize and the Mexican states of: Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan with Dr. Alexis Harrison, Dr. Levi Gray, and Carlos J. Pavón Vázquez. When we were not looking for A. sagrei, we made good use of our time by sampling for other Mexican herpetofauna.
New Mexico (May 2015 – July 2015) – My first independent research was conducted as an NSF REU at the Sevilleta LTER NWR Field Station in central New Mexico researching demography in the Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus).
Britt A. White 