Goessling Lab at Eckerd College

In the end we will conserve only what we love; 

we will love only what we understand; 

and we will understand only what we have been taught. 

          -Baba Dioum, 1968

As noted by Dioum, positive conservation results can only be expected from a better understanding of the factors affecting the loss of biological diversity, and ultimately disseminating this knowledge. This is a unifying thesis of all academia: gaining understanding, disseminating understanding, and using understanding to defend and advance the greater good.

Our Goal 

In the Goessling lab, we are zoologists who focus our efforts on understanding a diversity of proximate mechanisms and ultimate effects of environmental change on ectothermic tetrapods (i.e., reptiles and amphibians, "herps"). We are taxonomically biased in approach for two reasons. First, we all share at least a basic interest in, if not a love for, reptiles and amphibians; this bias is personal and of no specific scientific merit. Second, because their physiologies are uniquely tied to the environment, especially temperature, these taxa serve as prime experimental models for quantifying the effects of environmental change.

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Contact

Please contact Dr. Goessling (goessljm@eckerd.edu) should you be interested in our work.

If you'd like to email our broader Goessling lab group (including numerous Eckerd students!), please email glab-users@eckerd.edu.