On April 13, our speaker will be Dr. Brice Noonan, an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Mississippi. His presentation is entitled “Your Big Backyard. . . And All Its Wonderful Reptiles and Amphibians.” If you have questions about what kind of snakes and amphibians might be inhabiting your garden, you won’t want to miss this lecture!

Dr. Noonan holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Biology from the University of Texas at Arlington. At UM, Dr. Noonan teaches classes in Evolution, Genetics, Herpetology, Biology of Invasive Species, Biology of the Caribbean and Island Biogeography at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level he teaches courses in Molecular Systematics, Phylogenetic Systematics, and Phylogeography.