James Van Dyke
Professor
School of Environmental Sciences
Charles Sturt University
Australia
Biography
Dr James Van Dyke is an ecophysiologist interested how animals "work", and how they are affected by environmental disturbances, like pollution or global warming. He applies his work to understand how animals decline as a result of environmental change. He completed his PhD at the University of Arkansas in 2011, which focused on reproductive biology of vertebrates, mainly snakes and turtles. From 2011-2012, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Tech, where he assessed how turtles were impacted by a massive coal fly-ash spill in Tennessee, USA.
Research Interest
Conservation and restoration of freshwater turtles.
