Tag EngstromTag Engstrom received his BS in biology from Eckerd College in 1994. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to study marine turtle conservation in Queensland Australia. He completed his Ph.D. in population biology at the University of California Davis in2002 and conducted postdoctoral research at Stonybrook University before accepting a position at California State University, Chico in 2004. At Chico State, he as taught courses in across the biology curriculum, including a first semester bridge course focusing on student success for first time college students, the first semester of the introductory course for biology majors as well as general education courses in evolution and upper division and graduate courses in ecology, zoology, herpetology, comparative vertebrate anatomy and conservation biology. His research is in the fields of phylogenetics, population genetics and conservation of amphibians and reptiles with a focus on turtles. He has published in Systematic Biology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Molecular Ecology and Conservation Biology, and has conducted field studies in Florida, the Caribbean coast of Panama and Costa Rica, Australia, the Peruvian Amazon, Hawaii and throughout California. Read More Read Less