Part Five – Grad school and postdoc

My graduate career had several parts. After I graduated from UC Berkeley in early 1966, I flew to Costa Rica and took a graduate course (two months) on tropical ecology taught by the Organization for Tropical Studies. Returning to Berkeley, I worked for a year in the herp lab of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (UC Berkeley) and then (summer 1967) went on a museum expedition to the coastal deserts of Peru. I finally started an MA program at the University of Texas, Austin (September 1967- June 1969) and then went to Africa for 15 months. Once I was back in the states, I started a Ph.D. program at Harvard (1971-75) and then went back to Berkeley for a Miller Postdoc (1975-77). Those were formative years.