Frogs live just about everywhere, occupying the environment that in many ways are most important to our own welfare. In this talk, Yale Ecology Professor and Peabody Museum of Natural History Director David Skelly talks about why he studies frogs and how understanding their biology leads to better understanding about our very own biology.
From the 2018 TEDxUConn Conference which took place on April 8th, 2018. The theme for the event was Zero to Hero. David K. Skelly is Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University. Prior to assuming the Museum Directorship in 2014 he served for five years as Associate Dean for Research in Forestry. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Dave is a field biologist whose research focuses primarily on the ecology and development of amphibians. He has authored more than 80 papers, and his work on the effects of water pollution on the development of frogs in suburban environments has received wide attention in the national media. Dave has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been awarded the Forestry School’s annual prize for teaching excellence on four occasions. Dave received his B.A. from Middlebury College and Ph.D. in biology from the University of Michigan, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Wollongong, Australia and the University of Washington before joining Yale’s faculty in 1996. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
From the 2018 TEDxUConn Conference which took place on April 8th, 2018. The theme for the event was Zero to Hero. David K. Skelly is Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University. Prior to assuming the Museum Directorship in 2014 he served for five years as Associate Dean for Research in Forestry. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Dave is a field biologist whose research focuses primarily on the ecology and development of amphibians. He has authored more than 80 papers, and his work on the effects of water pollution on the development of frogs in suburban environments has received wide attention in the national media. Dave has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been awarded the Forestry School’s annual prize for teaching excellence on four occasions. Dave received his B.A. from Middlebury College and Ph.D. in biology from the University of Michigan, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Wollongong, Australia and the University of Washington before joining Yale’s faculty in 1996. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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