Biology and Molecular Biology

Science Hall 202     (973) 655-3418

hazardl@mail.montclair.edu

Dr. Hazard's Website: http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/%7Ebarrylab/Lisa/

Courses Taught

BIOL 113 Principles of BIology II

BIOL 199 Freshman Seminar in Biology

BIOL 330 Environmental Biology and Related Controversial Issues

BIOL 486/586 Selected Topics in Biology: Physiological Ecology

Research Interests

As an evolutionary physiologist, I am interested in patterns of physiological evolution and the processes that led to the formation of these patterns. My research has focused on how desert and intertidal reptiles have evolved in response to their potentially stressful environments. Currently, I am directly measuring the fitness consequences of variation in physiological traits of lizards, and I will later apply these techniques to salt gland evolution. Long-term, my goals are to explain how patterns of physiological diversity (for example, qualitative and quantitative differences in salt glands across taxa) arise, using complementary field and lab-based studies.

Publications

Refereed Published Articles

Sinervo, Barry, Alexis Chaine, Jean Clobert, Ryan Calsbeek, Lisa Hazard, Lesley Lancaster, Andrew McAdam, Suzanne Alonzo, Gwynne Corrigan, and Michael Hochberg.  2006.  Self-recognition, color signals, and genetic cycles of green-beard mutualism and altruism.   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(19): 7372-7377.

Hazard, L.C. and D.J. Morafka.  2004.  Characteristics of burrows used by neonate and juvenile desert tortoises during hibernation.  Journal of Herpetology 38(3): 443-447.

Hazard, L.C. and D. J. Morafka.  2002.  Comparative dispersion of juvenile and neonate desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii):  a preliminary assessment of age and nursery-based biases.  Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(2):406-409.

Hazard, L.C. 2001.  Ion secretion by salt glands of desert iguanas (Dipsosaurus dorsalis). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74(1): 22-31.

Hazard, L.C., V.H. Shoemaker and L.L. Grismer. 1998.  Salt gland secretion by an intertidal lizard, Uta tumidarostra.  Copeia 1998(1): 231-234.

Submitted Refereed Articles

Mills, S, L. Hazard,   Submitted.  Gonadotropin hormone modulation of testosterone, immune function,performance and behavioural tradeoffs amoung male morphs of the lizard Uta stansburiana.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.

Proceedings

Hazard, L. and J. Rotenberry.  1996.  Herpetofauna and vegetation survey of Cornfield Spring and Piute Spring.  Proceedings of the East Mojave Desert Symposium, 7-8 1992, University of California, Riverside.  C. Luke, J. André, and M. Herring, eds.  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports, Number 10.

Books and Chapters

Hazard, L.C.  2004.  Sodium and potassium secretion by iguana salt glands: Acclimation or adaptation?  Pp. 84-93. In:  Iguanas:  Biology and Conservation.  A. Alberts, R.L. Carter, W.B. Hayes, and E. Martins, editors. University of California Press.