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December 16, 2023 141 mins

CheloniaCast sits down with Dr. Arthur Georges, Distinguished Professor in the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra, to talk about his research on the ecology, evolution, and systematics of Australian turtles. The conversation ranges from the biogeography of and current threats to Australian Chelid species, the evolutionary and genetic basis of temperature dependent sex determination, the use of calculus in biology, what constitutes a species, turtle taxonomy, and much more.

 

You can learn more about Dr. Georges' lab here: http://georges.biomatix.org/

 

Learn more about the CheloniaCast Podcast here: https://theturtleroom.org/cheloniacast/

 

Learn more about the CheloniaCast Podcast Fund here: https://theturtleroom.org/project/cheloniacast-podcast/

 

Follow the CheloniaCast Podcast on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @cheloniacast

 

Host social media - Jason Wills - @chelonian.carter / Michael Skibsted - @michael.skibstedd / Jack Thompson - @jack_reptile_naturalist_302 / Ken Wang - @americanmamushi / Wyatt Keil - @wyatts_wildlife_photography

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