Joseph R. Mendelson

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Joseph Ralph Mendelson III (born April 7, 1964 in Fort Sill , Oklahoma ), also known as Joe Mendelson , is an American herpetologist .

Life

Mendelson is the youngest of four children of Joseph Ralph Mendelson II and Frances Elizabeth Smith. From 1983 he studied zoology at the University of California at Santa Barbara , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1986 . In 1991 he graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a Master of Arts degree in biology under the direction of Jonathan A. Campbell . In 1997 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of William E. Duellman and Linda Trueb. PhD in Systematics and Ecology from the University of Kansas . He was Assistant Professor from 1997 to 2003, Associate Professor from 2003 to 2004, and Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Utah State University from 2004 to 2010 .

From 2006 to 2007 he was a board member in the Amphibian Specialist Group of the IUCN / Species Survival Commission and from 2007 to 2012 scientific advisor at the IUCN Amphibian Ark. From 2011 to 2013 he was President of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) and from 2004 to 2012 Curator for Herpetology at Atlanta Zoo . Since 2010 he has been an adjunct professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Biology . Since 2013 he has been research and development officer at the IUCN Amphibian Ark and head of herpetological research at Atlanta Zoo.

Mendelson's projects focus on biodiversity studies in Latin America , on biomechanics , on taxonomy, natural history , phylogenesis and biogeography of neotropical amphibians, on the patterns and consequences of epidemics caused by the introduced amphibians pathogens , on research and development programs amphibian protection as well as nature conservation biology and general vertebrate biology.

Mendelson is one of the first to describe two reptile species and nearly 40 amphibian species , including the frog species Ecnomiohyla rabborum from Panama , which has been considered extinct since 2016 .

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SURNAME Mendelson, Joseph R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mendelson, Joseph Ralph III (full name); Mendelson, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Sill , Oklahoma