{"99111":{"#nid":"99111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lessons of the Lost: Global Amphibian Extinctions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Biology Adjunct Professor Joseph Mendelson recently published a paper in the American Scientist on global amphibian extinctions. He reflects on his personal experience witnessing multiple extinctions of amphibian species from fully protected parks and reserves in Mexico and Central and South America.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an amphibian taxonomist, he describes the sobering reality of \u0022discovering\u0022 species new to science after they have already gone extinct-the discovery being made from the shelves of natural history museums, not in their former cloud forest habitats. These discoveries resemble paleontology, but they are so recent that the term does not fit. Mendelson suggests the term \u0022Forensic Taxonomy\u0022 instead. Dr. Mendelson also is Curator of Herpetology at Zoo Atlanta and current President of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. He co-teaches Georgia Tech Biology undergraduates a research methods course at Zoo Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Biology Adjunct Professor Joseph Mendelson recently published a paper in the American Scientist on global amphibian extinctions. He reflects on his personal experience witnessing multiple extinctions of amphibian species from fully protected parks and reserves in Mexico and Central and South America.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lessons of the Lost: Global Amphibian Extinctions"}],"uid":"27245","created_gmt":"2011-11-14 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:02","author":"Troy Hilley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"99121":{"id":"99121","type":"image","title":"Joseph Mendelson","body":null,"created":"1449178142","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:02","changed":"1475894712","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:12"}},"media_ids":["99121"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.zooatlanta.org\/home\/zoo_experts\/zoo_expert-curator_herpetology","title":"Joseph Mendelson"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/news\/Mendelson.2011.LessonsfromtheLostAmerSci-1.pdf","title":"American Scientist"}],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Terraso\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact David Terraso\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}