Voices | Richard Lehtinen | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/rlehtinen/activity/ Activity feed for Richard Lehtinen. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:01:07 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 485d93ccc48818a1c950cea4b4b32d33 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=648 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:39:57 +0000 Poster presentation at OHPARC 2026 The Ohio Chapter of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (OHPARC) met this past Thursday (April 16th) at the Cincinnati Zoo. I […]

]]> e0f4a2d95b60250271f4a484b9c8de15 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=643 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:15:11 +0000 Visit from an old friend On Feb. 5th, we were pleased to welcome the Phi Beta Kappa speaker Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty from Louisiana State University at the […]

]]> 5313d82879accc2214e2c40311f99678 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=637 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:24:52 +0000 New paper on long-term salamander population monitoring It took 10+ years, but our long-term monitoring efforts at Wooster Memorial Park have now been published. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in this (especially Derek Calhoun ’11, Jacob Gabriel ’15 and Hilary Edgington ’10)!

]]> ff2722bc75f6c9ac1001706c84ed7cda Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=631 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:10:51 +0000 New paper published on Blanchard's cricket frog population turnover Started in 2004, our long-term monitoring study of Blanchard’s cricket frog has yielded additional insights published this week in Ecology and Evolution. Thanks to all who helped make this happen!

]]> fc538192c2317b67d07a0014f2ece588 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=624 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:22:23 +0000 2025 Ohio PARC meeting A great beginning to spring every year is the Ohio PARC (Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation) meeting. This year it was held […]

]]> 2c3d2aa576b2f8dc53073ed399af4133 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=617 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:06:57 +0000 Adventures in Borneo In August 2024, I had the good fortune to travel to Borneo to attend the 10th World Congress of Herpetology (10WCH). This conference […]

]]> f89573f768bc977441bf93d73c1fbb5f Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=610 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:05:57 +0000 A Voice to the Voiceless: New Research on the Endangered Golden Tree Frog In November 2022, I had an amazing experience on top of El Tucuche (the second highest mountain on the island of Trinidad). I was lucky […]

]]> 82e289669626dc90bcfedb27eaad26c7 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=605 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:34:51 +0000 New Paper on Squirrel Melanism Another new paper from Lake Barrett’s (’23) Independent Study thesis was just published in Mammalia. Nice work all!

]]> 93d030281c13a9ba9d93b2e4fb756e9e Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=601 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:23:04 +0000 New Publication on the Genetics of Squirrel Melanism Lake Barrett (’23) was instrumental in getting this paper across the finish line. It also marks my first publication with long-time friend and colleague Dean Fraga!

]]> 1ab58439249aec71b231bd859dd32b00 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=597 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:55:57 +0000 Let the semester begin! Over the holiday break, I got moved into a nice new office with not one but TWO windows! It’s not Hogwarts but I’ll take it.

]]> ce2cd5cc9e08b5c2aecbcc9f06dd6b45 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=589 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:26:32 +0000 New snake species for Wooster Memorial Park Yesterday (9/27/2023) on a class field trip, my students and I found a baby milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum) in the woods at […]

]]> 761ce68d72555e89af57d524d02304e5 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=586 Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:46:27 +0000 Reforestation project kicks off! On Saturday August 26th, volunteers from the College of Wooster swim team helped initiate a reforestation project at Wooster Memorial […]

]]> bdf463308a8212faf9665831ede7a3ad Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=579 Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:30:06 +0000 New (and old) publication on the rescue effect I recently published a new paper providing some of the clearest empirical evidence for the demographic rescue effect that I know of. […]

]]> 62bea408c88ec4374d62d1d606057169 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=576 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:26:13 +0000 Poster presented at OHPARC meeting I presented a poster on long-term changes in salamander body size at the annual Ohio Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation […]

]]> 30ee2884cfe9c6615984a2f0557bf3e4 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=571 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:49:30 +0000 Since 2005, I have been formally cataloguing the amphibians and reptiles of Wooster Memorial Park (Wayne Co., Ohio). As of the spring of 2022, I was aware of seven species of salamanders, five species of frogs, […]

]]> f6af710ff5b28ebc120f8fd007c03e7f Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=566 Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:41:14 +0000 David Raines (’15) and I co-authored a poster entitled “Does past reproductive success influence subsequent reproductive performance?” at the recent Evolution conference in Cleveland, Ohio. This poster […]

]]> f3dc0b73bd0d4f1eb788c5fb7ecb9f8a Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=559 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:37:37 +0000 Congrats to Alexa Rojas (’18), Haley Hartman (’18) and Blake Marlowe (’17) on the recent publication of their (combined) undergraduate thesis research in the Journal of Herpetology!

]]> d11186baebc0663a03421b7c2e1725aa Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=553 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:01:16 +0000 This morning a new strawberry poison dart frog metamorph made its first appearance. Brightened what had been a bit of a gloomy day. Welcome to this thing called life, little one.

]]> c56eca1cc71f6e61d894d0ad350a62ed Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen https://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=550 Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:17:12 +0000 Back in June, Dr. Katherine Krynak (Ohio Northern University), John McCall (Michigan Tech. University) and I completed our fifth year of field surveys for Blanchard’s cricket frog, with the help of three awesome […]

]]> a657ba35db6e26a8ef0cb78ff11ad056 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=543 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:26:21 +0000 The online early version of our new paper on glass frog communities in old-growth and second-growth rain forests is now available. This paper is the result of seven expeditions over five years to Costa Rica and […]

]]> 454c711dcecdad31925b35764fffb274 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=538 Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:18:24 +0000 2020 has been a long year for everyone and it was a challenging to finish my salamander fieldwork for this year. I have several large, ongoing projects with local salamanders but under normal circumstances, I […]

]]> f5fe0eccd9c36b39b5126747f2499a76 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=535 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:10:26 +0000 Since 2011, I have been the director of the Fern Valley Field Station, the College of Wooster’s outdoor learning laboratory. This 56-acre property was generously donated to the College by David and Betty Wilkin. M […]

]]> b8f6b75bfd8ac88fb5e9a8906a58b124 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=531 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:31:06 +0000 After over two years of research and compiling information, I am happy to say that my new website “Phytotelm Breeding Frogs of the World” has launched! Phytotelm breeding frogs are those that reproduce in pla […]

]]> d05645dc98ae977155c8e5af2a820c41 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=526 Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:59:59 +0000 Just a few days ago, our first paper on melanistic gray squirrels appeared in the journal Ecology and Evolution. This paper was ten years in the making, as the first squirrel surveys in this effort were conducted […]

]]> 04a0dec77927a7e907d3add846c68778 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=520 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:52:12 +0000 I sit here in mid-December with the thermometer holding steady at 19 degrees F (-7 degrees C) and all the frogs, snakes, salamanders and lizards in Ohio are down for a long winter’s nap. Only a few weeks ago, h […]

]]> 0c3a054421f1e55d031a579138c89076 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=514 Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:52:45 +0000 Thanks to Dr. Cori Richards-Zawacki at the University of Pittsburgh and the hard work of Mackenzie Goltz (’20), we now have a dart frog colony at the College of Wooster! These little beauties are originally from P […]

]]> 0dda44507bf8bdda1f3503086852377d Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=509 Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:16:41 +0000 I’ve done a variety of things in my life for a job. Fast food employee, warehouse worker, grocery store shelf-stocker, golf caddy, corn detasseler. And, this past week, I pursued gainful employment as a snake c […]

]]> 57898c392345f20d64486eff74638f22 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=504 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:07:36 +0000 A beautiful spring day this morning and instead of staring at a mountain of email in my office, I went out to Wooster Memorial Park. The fresh air and sunshine did me good. Trees are leafing out, migratory […]

]]> 550b6fb107307bda6b28c967c7fa4a29 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=498 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:39:36 +0000 On March 20th, the Ohio Chapter of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conversation (PARC) held its 2nd annual meeting. My student Jesse Garrett-Larsen (’19) and I attended and presented this poster on our work on  […]

]]> fde58cfff8762bbcfd796eeb64702ed1 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=492 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:22:12 +0000 Recently, two colleagues and I described two more new species in the frog genus Guibemantis. This brings the total number of species in the genus to thirteen, more than doubling the known diversity in this group […]

]]> f2cb5479ad1ba21a0c5958b3c4b2b243 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=489 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:16:12 +0000

]]> b5315ce970b4d8ac951e9b02f1869e67 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=481 Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:03:49 +0000 Body coloration is important to organisms for a wide range of reasons including mate attraction, camouflage and thermoregulation. Short term changes in body coloration in frogs have been reported for a number of […]

]]> 815b042403afcf29d96a31a404267ef0 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=475 Tue, 22 May 2018 15:35:34 +0000 My colleagues and I have just published a paper describing a new rain forest frog in the genus Guibemantis from northern Madagascar.

We named it Guibemantis milingilingy, the latter part of which means “in […]

]]> e862c6daf64d41e9bb3ac0a4547a516b Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=469 Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:52:48 +0000 My students from “Natural History of the Vertebrates” and I set up our wildlife cameras again. This time, we put them out in the forest along the College of Wooster Golf Course, right in the middle of the town of […]

]]> f33fc73305df1c596fbb042b9d169d23 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=459 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:50:38 +0000 Recently, I got a few wildlife cameras for my “Natural History of the Vertebrates” class. We deployed them out at Fern Valley Field Station for about a month (January and February 2018). The great thing about the […]

]]> 0ba0245c47b478962ded624e762d4b62 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=452 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:47:20 +0000 On the Caribbean island of Tobago, there is an odd snake. Many snakes are well camouflaged to blend in their environments, to surprise a tasty meal and to avoid their own predators. Other snakes are brightly […]

]]> 4de0d2e1b31b84de70e6b59face71872 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=431 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:44:09 +0000 As I sit here, an ice storm is on the way that will wreck havoc among all of us endotherms that are active at this latitude in January. Our salamander friends, however, are waiting (happily, I hope) below the […]

]]> c5fa72cacbbae1d7f28e538b056e59a0 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=386 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:02:03 +0000 Earlier this year, my friend Yeong-Choy Kam and I published a paper based on an experiment I conducted in his lab over ten years ago in Taiwan. Time flies! Previously, there had been anecdotal reports of […]

]]> aae8f127f824464c47bc6296068372aa Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=381 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:04:52 +0000 Salamander of the Month – the axolotl

The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) commonly referred to as the “Mexican walking fish” is featured as this month’s salamander of the month. This amphibian is interes […]

]]> 5cf872461d48d9bdaae4dbc92c83db06 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=375 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:45:54 +0000 Recently, several colleagues and I published a new taxonomic paper entitled “Cryptic multicolored lizards in the Polychrus marmoratus Group (Squamata: Sauria: Polychrotidae) and the status of Leiolepis auduboni H […]

]]> 5d26952f5e9e57c605f7745a465ce44e Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=361 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:13:34 +0000 Salamander of the Month – the Olm (Proteus anguinus)

                                                                             © 2015 Dr. Joachim Nerz

The olm is a cave specialized salamander that lives […]

]]> 995ece282c319e0e2eb1e5d089625f79 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=358 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:03:00 +0000 Earlier in November, our last Salamander Squad outing nabbed four different species (red-backed, ravine, slimy and northern two-lined salamanders) at Wooster Memorial Park. We had three outings this fall and […]

]]> 146867d2b8d96d98eb0a6e2980af95c6 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=354 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:23:31 +0000 The Wooster Salamander Squad recently had its second outing of the fall on Oct. 8th. Many secretive salamanders were found by young and old! Our next outing (and last of the fall) will be on Saturday November 5th […]

]]> 22e8bcb6dd5d7f2ad221d18e923a77b5 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=351 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:27:50 +0000 In May of this year, I took three College of Wooster undergraduates to the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica to study frogs, snakes and lizards. April Arquilla (’17) did a field experiment on coral snake mimicry, Ben […]

]]> d9c93fd0a366749bb19ed9de352abfee Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=349 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:11:25 +0000 The very first group of intrepid salamander biologists went out to Wooster Memorial Park on Saturday, September 17th. It rained much of the early morning hours but then let up as we went out into the woods. The […]

]]> 56d72b093b654e87fdcbc8ee53ef05a1 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=338 Fri, 05 Aug 2016 19:52:06 +0000 I was happy to be able to attend the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists this year, which met recently in New Orleans. With co-author Erin Hodson (’14) I gave a talk entitled “Decline of an […]

]]> 9597f651d5644bfe7131ba7d5cba91f9 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=331 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:36:58 +0000 Late last year, Jacob Beckstead (’16) and I got some squirrel nest boxes set up on the College of Wooster campus. These nest boxes are equipped with web cams that allow us to peak in on the squirrels activities […]

]]> 64acd5fbfe2ed247ed61abb91e8320ca Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=327 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:36:25 +0000 My student Jake Beckstead (’16) recently set up three squirrel nest boxes with web cams that are now up on three trees on the College of Wooster campus (near Kauke, Scovel and Severance Halls). It took about 3 or […]

]]> e7c2c0943682d2d6d312a1e7782b1441 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=325 Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:09:36 +0000 Recently, my students and I had a paper accepted to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Herpetology. This paper “Re-assessing the conservation status of an island endemic frog”, was based on thr […]

]]> 41abe6e7fa721affd4d817cbfb4659c2 Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen http://supersalamander.voices.wooster.edu/?p=321 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:06:21 +0000 Hola from La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica!

I am here with three Wooster students conducting research on glass frogs. The station is an excellent place to conduct biological research in the lowland […]

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