Research Projects

• Systematics of the scincid lizard genus Sphenomorphus in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (collaboration with Fred Kraus and Allen Allison, Bishop Museum; Steve Richards, South Australian Museum)
• Systematics and natural history of the lizard fauna of New Caledonia
  (collaboration with Ross Sadlier, Australian Museum; Aaron Bauer, Villanova University; Hervé Jourdan, IRD, New Caledonia)
• Male reproductive cycles of Australian elapid snakes (collaboration with Rick Shine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney)
• Systematics of the Australian skinks of the Egernia striolata species-group (collaboration with Sarah Smith, Charles Darwin University; Ross Sadlier, Australian Museum)
• Phylogenetic systematics of pygopodid lizards (collaboration with Arnold Kluge, University of Michigan)
• Reproductive biology of Australian lizards.
• Systematics of Australian typhlopid snakes.
• History of Australian herpetology.