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July Program – Reptiles and Amphibians of the Cincinnati Region
July 17 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Our monthly program will feature Ryan Jorgensen who will present his program entitled “The Families of Reptiles & Amphibians of the Cincinnati Region”. This program will be held at the Sharon Woods Visitor Center on Wednesday July 17th beginning at 7:00 PM. The visitor center is located at 11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, OH 45241
Ryan’s program will focus on the local families of reptiles and amphibians and their specific unique characteristics that suit them for their various habitats. He will cover their relationships to other families and whether they are cosmopolitan families or if they are North American specific.
Ryan attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he received his BS in Integrative Biology, and studied Four-toed Salamander ecology. From there Ryan went to the University of Cincinnati to receiver his MS in Biological Sciences. At UC Ryan studied arboreal snake locomotion and worked on several published papers on the topic. He was also a TA for Ornithology while at UC. After graduation Ryan worked at Northwestern in Cardiology and currently works at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Cancer Biology. We are also proud to announce that Ryan has recently become an ASO board member.
Ryan is a life-long naturalist specializing in reptiles and amphibians and has been a birder for over a decade. We hope to see you there for what should be a unique program.
Note that Ryan will also be leading an ASO field trip on Sunday, July 21st. The focus of that trip will be, yes, you guessed it, finding reptiles and amphibians. Brian is also a skilled birder and will point out the birds we see and hear. That trip will be held at the Mt. Airy arboretum. See the separate writeup on the field trip for details.
(Contributed by Jay Stenger)