Houston Chandler

Who would have thought you can detect snake DNA in sand?

Excited to continue working on spotted turtle conservation!

Herpetology job!

Behold Jabba the Particularly Giant California Giant Salamander! This beast was likely suffering from dropsy for some reason. I find the poor thing gigantically adorable. 📷 Jaeda Chin

I'm excited to have several of my photo prints in this year's @OrianneSociety Giving Tuesday raffle. Each photo showcases a species native to our imperiled longleaf pine ecosystems. Follow link for full print/prize list. Ticket sales end tonight at 9pm! oriannesociety.org/news/2023-givi…

#JoinOurTeam! We are looking to hire a seasonal technician to work on multiple research projects focused on the imperiled Eastern Indigo Snake in southern Georgia. Now accepting applications! Please visit the #Careers page on our website to apply today: oriannesociety.org/careers/

@JoePlant2021 More likely to be diamondbacks on this property. Plenty of other snake diversity too.

@KyHoopFan Rough green snake. They turn blue when they die.

@TheSnakeDude hey man do you know what kind of snake this is ... found it dead when I mowed my lawn last week ... rural southeastern KY is location

@USJRB Eastern indigo from Georgia

@TheSnakeDude I give up. What and where?

Had a great time at #JMIH23. Got to talk to a lot of people about flatwoods salamander conservation.

SFS is dismayed by today's Supreme Court Ruling regarding Waters of the United States. This decision is scientifically indefensible. Read our full statement #SCOTUS #WOTUS freshwater-science.org/news/sfs-respo…

Absolute dinosaur caught on our Herpetology field trip today. Students were really excited to see a snapping #turtle this big up close. Cool to have an animal like this thriving on the @virginia_tech campus. @vt_cnre

2023 Spotted Turtle population monitoring is underway, and it's great to see some of our marked juveniles survived another year. I'm also taking Eastern Mud Turtle data, which means many attempts have been made on my life this week. I'm happy to report only minimal bloodshed.

Check out the rattle on this Eastern Diamondback! This large adult female had 17 rattle segments, which is one of the largest rattles we've ever seen on a wild snake. Snakes frequently gain and lose segments, so contrary to a popular belief, you cannot age a #snake by its rattle.

Green Treefrog perched on a branch observing the prescribed fire in the background. #Orianne #CalebGoldsmith #LongleafStewardshipCenter #LightingaMatch #goodfire #prescribedfire #longleafpine #rxburn #controlledburn #burnboss #driptorch #conservation

Had a great time at #SEPARC2023. Nice to see so many friends and hear all about the great conservation work happening in the southeast.

The JMIH 2023 (#JMIH23) Meeting Site is now open and ready to take abstracts burkclients.com/JMIH/meetings/… JMIH is the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and includes the Annual Meeting of the @IchsAndHerps

Well I’ve gotten down to 6 minutes and now trying to decide what I can take out and still tell a coherent story 😭