Student Opportunities

There may be opportunities for students to get involved in this collection. For more information, contact Dr. Peter Zani at pzani@uwsp.edu. 


Current Research

Dr. Zani's research interests are in the temperate zone and understanding how animals cope with extremely seasonal environments, especially winter, and the implications of climate limitations and how a changing climate might alter those limitations for individuals, populations, and species. Dr. Zani's approach combines field work, mostly on side-blotched lizards in the high desert of eastern Oregon, semi-controlled outdoor mesocosm experiments of enclosed cohorts of lizards, and controlled-environment laboratory experiments here at UWSP.






Contact the Curator


Peter Zani
Office: TNR 444
Phone: (715) 346-2237
Fax: (715) 346-3624
Email: pzani@uwsp.edu

Curator of Herpetology
Assistant Professor of Biology 

Ph.D. Biology-University of Oregon