Our Mission

Reptile Research is a conservation research organization, dedicated to understanding biodiversity of reptiles and amphibians. Education, volunteering, and capacity building are integral to this task. We offer people the experiences, skills and tools to promote understanding of biodiversity beyond our own organization. As images of nature are one of the best devices for both documenting biodiversity and sharing it with the world, photography is also central to our goals.

 

 Who are we?

Reptile Research is a group of professional naturalists, educators and photographers leading research expeditions in Ecuador and the Desert Southwestern United States.

 

 

Greg Vigle, Collaborator, Herpetologist

 

Greg is the Director of the Librarius Study Center at Reserva Jatun Sacha in Amazonian Ecuador, where we hold our Tropical Ecology course each year. He has spent the last 25 years studying Ecuadorian Herpetofauna, and is one of the leading scientists in this particular field. Greg acts as field coordinator for us at Jatun Sacha, and is first author of "A Photographic Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Jatun Sacha Biological Station, Amazonian Ecuador"

Ana Almedariz, Professor, Herpetologist (not pictured)

 

Ana is our herpetologist collaborator in Ecuador. She is curator of the exceptional herpetological collections at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional de Quito. She assists us with various logistical and scientific aspects of our work, and our specimens are left in her able care.