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About

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Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico - with Dermophis oaxacae
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Indio Mountains Research Station, Hudspeth County, Texas - with Crotalus atrox

 

 

My research interests center on the behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and natural history of herpetofauna. I have been fortunate to acquire a diverse research skill-set during my various academic and professional appointments, including the use of captive experimentation, long-term mark-recapture techniques, longitudinal monitoring technologies, animal-borne data logging, and a suite of herpetofauna survey methods. I'm currently most interested in questions concerning animal movement and space use strategies and using recent advances in bio-logging technologies and associated computational techniques to better understand proximate and ultimate drivers of observed patterns. Large-bodied pitvipers are my model organisms for an ongoing series of case studies coupling radio telemetry and accelerometry for long-term and continuous field monitoring of movement and behavior.  

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Crotalus horridus, Baldwin County, Georgia
Recent Activities

New Publication 

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Contact 

Dominic L. DeSantis, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor

Georgia College & State University - Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Email: dominic.desantis@gcsu.edu

Phone: (478) 445-5648

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