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Brian R. Warren


Address:
1309 Gatewood Drive
Apartment No. 1707
Auburn, AL 36830-2883
Phone:
(334) 826-9922
E-mail:
salamander_hunter@yahoo.com
WWW:
http://www.geocities.com/salamander_hunter/index.html

Personal Information

Age:
28

  

Birthdate:
September 21, 1972

  

Hair:
Brown

 

Marital Status:
Engaged

  

  

  

Height:
5' 9"

 

Birthplace:
Hammond, LA

  

Eyes: Brown

  

Weight:
167 lbs.

 

 

Education

University of Southwestern Louisiana
Biology, 1990-1991

Louisiana State University
Zoology and Physiology, 1991-1994
Bachelor of Science (1994)

Southeastern Louisiana University
Biological Sciences, 1995-1999
Area of interest: ecology and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles
Master of Science (1999)

 

Professional Experience

Auburn University
Contract Research Biologist, 2000-present
installed a drift fence and monitored a funnel-trap array for the capture of flatwoods salamanders (Ambystoma cingulatum), a federally-listed species; purpose of the project is to ascertain what amount of capture effort is needed to determine whether flatwoods salamanders are present on a given piece of property

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals/Office of Public Health
Sanitarian, 1999-2000
performed inspections of retail food establishments, grocery stores, day care centers, and other venues to verify compliance with the Louisiana State Sanitary Code

Southeastern Louisiana University
Research Associate, 1998-1999
maintained lab Macintosh computers and performed general labwork in a molecular phylogenetics lab

Southeastern Louisiana University
Teaching Assistant, 1995-1998
organized and taught introductory zoology labs

Contemporary Herpetology
Copy Editor, 1998-present
responsible for editing manuscripts for grammatical and mechanical content

 

 

Professional Memberships

 

Society for the Study of Reptiles and Amphibians (1995 - present)
The Herpetologists’ League (1995 - present)
Society for Conservation Biology (1997 - 1998)
Society of Systematic Biologists (1997 - present)
The Willi Hennig Society (1999)

 

 

Publications

in prep

Warren, B.R., Crother, B.I., and M.E. White. Archosaurs and the tetrapod phylogeny problem: new data and old hypotheses. [a paper I am currently revising based upon my thesis research]

 

Warren, B.R. and B.I. Crother. Methods in Vicariance Biogeography: The Caribbean Example. [a chapter on cladistic biogeography for a forthcoming text]

 

1999

Crea, M., Merler, J., and R. Quintana. 1989. Contribucion a la Sistematica de Caiman latirostris (Daudin, 1802) (Crocodylia, Alligatoridae). Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso 20: 75-80. [English translation by B.R. Warren; published in Contemporary Herpetology's information series]

 

1998

Warren, B.R. 1998. "Re-evaluating the tragedy of the commons." Conservation Biology. 12(6): 1168-1169.

 

 

Web Pages

A Synopsis of Caiman Taxonomy
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/cbd-evo-1.htm
In conjunction with Dr. Adam Britton’s information project on crocodilians, I authored this non-peer reviewed article on the historical context of caiman taxonomy and the present state of affairs.

 

 

References

Dr. Craig Guyer, herpetologist
Auburn University
Department of Biological Sciences
Auburn, AL 36849
(334) 844-9232                                                                                                                                                           cguyer@acesag.auburn.edu                                                                                                                                                 

Dr. Mary E. White, molecular/developmental biologist
Southeastern Louisiana University
Department of Biological Sciences
SLU 10736
Hammond, LA 70402
(504) 549-3508
mwhite@selu.edu

Dr. Brian I. Crother, systematic herpetologist
Southeastern Louisiana University
Department of Biological Sciences
SLU 10736
Hammond, LA 70402
(504) 549-2162 
bcrother@selu.edu                             

 

Professional Meetings Attended

HL-ASIH Joint Annual Meeting 1996 - New Orleans, LA, USA
meeting of the Herpetologists’ League and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; no presentation

SSAR Annual Meeting 1996 - Lawrence, KS, USA
meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; no presentation

HL-ASIH-SSAR Joint Annual Meeting 1999 - State College, PA, USA
meeting of the Herpetologists' League, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; presentation: oral, "Archosaurs and the Tetrapod Phylogeny Problem"

 

© 1998-2001 Brian R. Warren
Last updated 3-17-01