Josiah H Townsend

Josiah H Townsend, Ph.D.

  • Positions:
    Postodoctoral Researcher

    WEC/SFRC Molecular Ecology Laboratory

    University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

    Affiliate Scientist

    Instituto Regional de Biodiversidad (IRBio), Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Honduras

    Adjunct Lecturer

    UFTeach

    University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
     
    M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
     
    B.Sc., Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    James D. Austin (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
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  • Research:
    Systematics, biogeography, and conservation of amphibians and reptiles in Mesoamerica.
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  • Other Experience:

    2004 Intern, Wildlife Conservation Society Mesoamerican Program Office, Gainesville, Florida

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  • Honors:

    2010 Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Graduate Teaching Award

    2008-2009 Doris Lowe and Earl and Verna Lowe Scholarship

    2007-2009 National Science Foundation GK-12 Teaching Fellowship from the UF SPICE Program

    2006-2009 University of Florida Foundation Grinter Fellowship

    2005-2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science for Life Graduate Student Award

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Josiah Townsend's Publications (8)



Josiah Townsend's Posters and Presentations (6)

  • The Amphibians of Honduras: a Critically Endangered Fauna of Regional and Global Biodiversity Significance (poster)

    Josiah H Townsend, Ileana R Luque-Montes, Larry D Wilson, James D Austin

    9th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: “Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World” , National Council for Science and the Environment; 12/2008
  • Actualización del Estado de Conservación de los Anfibios de Honduras (poster)

    Ileana R Luque-Montes, Josiah H Townsend

    VIII Congreso Latinamericano de Herpetología, Veradero, Matanzas, Cuba, Regional meeting held every 3 years; 11/2008
  • Cryptic diversity in Nototriton barbouri (Caudata: Plethodontidae), revealed using mitocondrial sequence data (poster)

    Josiah H Townsend, James D Austin, Jason M Butler, Larry D Wilson

    VIII Congreso Latinamericano de Herpetología, Veradero, Matanzas, Cuba, Regional meeting held every 3 years; 11/2008
  • Evaluación de las Listas de Sitios y Especies de la Alianza para Zero Extinciones (AZE) para Honduras: Adiciones, Supresiones y Ajustes (presentation)

    Josiah H Townsend

    Congreso Mesoamericana para la Biologia y la Conservación, San Salvador, El Salvador, "Segundo simposio para intercambio y consolidacíon de informacíon en studios regionales de especies críticamente amenazadas en sitios AZE en Mesoamerica Norte"; 11/2008
  • Resultados preliminares en la investigación sobre la herpetofauna del Parque Nacional Cerro Azul Meámbar, Honduras, un potencial sitio AZE (presentation)

    Ileana R Luque-Montes, Josiah H Townsend

    Congreso Mesoamericana para la Biologia y la Conservación, San Salvador, El Salvador, "Segundo simposio para intercambio y consolidacíon de informacíon en studios regionales de especies críticamente amenazadas en sitios AZE en Mesoamerica Norte"; 11/2008
  • Conservación de Anfibios en Honduras: Proyectos Actuales y Retos por el Futuro (presentation)

    Josiah H Townsend

    "Establecimiento de un marco regional para el monitoreo y conservación de anfibios en Mesoamérica,” Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, El Zamorano, Honduras, Sponsored by Conservation International/Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo/Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad/Arizona State University; 09/2008

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