Welcome to KaBEL:

The Kansas Biodiversity and Evolution Lab

I am the Zoology Collections Manager at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas. I completed my dissertation at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science focused on systematics, biogeography, and evolution in snakes of the Pacific, specifically New Guinea. In addition to my continued interest in Pacific snake evolution, my research here at the Sternberg Museum is focusing on similar fundamental evolutionary questions, but with snakes and other squamates of the Great Plains. If you are interested in accessing the zoology collections of the Sternberg Museum, please go to tab above to the right, or email me directly. Thanks for visiting!