About this site

This website is the result of more than thirty years of travel to the Galápagos with student groups, beginning with my first trip in 1989. Early in this experience I created a website, “galapagos@rit, hosted by my university, the Rochester Institute of Technology. About midway through those years, I began working on my Paradise for Reptiles project. Squeezing researching and writing into a heavy teaching load, I necessarily had to let the website lie fallow for a long time. Now that “Paradise” is complete I am turning to the website. The first step is to migrate the site from RIT to WordPress. Then I will edit, update and add new material according to the cladogram below: