EDUCATION - Trinity College

1 AMBER L. PITT, Environmental Science Program and Department of Biology, Trinity College 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 Telephone: (860) 297-2239; E-mail: Website: EDUCATION 2008 Doctor of Philosophy Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 2005 Master of Science Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 1997 Bachelor of Arts Zoology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD 2016-Pres. Assistant Professor, Environmental Science Program and Department of Biology, Trinity College , Hartford, CT 2014-Pres.

2 Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Agricultural, Forest, & Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 2013-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological & Allied Health Sciences, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 2009-2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Wetlands Project Manager, School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 2003-2009 Research Technician, Department of Herpetology, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS & EDITED VOLUMES 28.

3 Pitt, , Tavano, and Nickerson. In review. Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi (Ozark hellbender). Larval behavior. 27. Hartzell, , Pitt, Tavano, and S. Davis. In review. Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (spring salamander). Habitat. 26. Pitt, , Howard, Baldwin, Baldwin, and Brown. In review. Small parks as local social-ecological systems contributing to conservation of small isolated and ephemeral wetlands. 25. Nickerson, , Pitt, Tavano, Hecht, Mitchell. In review. Riparian forest removal and the cascade of effects corresponding with Ozark hellbender population decline.

4 24. Chow, , Pitt, Baldwin, D. Suhre, and J. Wang. In review. Water quality dynamics of ephemeral wetlands in the Piedmont ecoregion, South Carolina, USA. 23. England, *, and Pitt. In review. Post-fire salvage logging negatively affects forest bird populations and assemblages: a review of the direct effects of post-fire salvage logging on birds. (*Undergraduate student) 22. Tucker Serniak, , Corbin, Pitt, and Rier. In review. The effects of Japanese knotweed on avian diversity and function in riparian habitats. 21. Tavano, , and Pitt.

5 In press. Hemidactylium scutatum (four-toed salamander). USA: Pennsylvania: Columbia Co. Herpetological Review. 20. Hartzell, , Hartzell, and Pitt. 2016. Terrepene carolina carolina (woodland box turtle). USA: Pennsylvania: Northumberland Co. Herpetological Review 47(1):80. 19. Hartzell, , and Pitt. 2015. Sternotherus odoratus (eastern musk turtle). USA: Pennsylvania: Montour Co. Herpetological Review 46(4):566. Pitt Curriculum Vitae June 2016 Page 1 of 1418. Groff, , Pitt, Baldwin, Calhoun, Loftin. 2015. Evaluation of a waistband for attaching external transmitters to anurans.

6 Wildlife Society Bulletin 39(3):610-615. DOI: 17. Pitt, , Buckle*, Wahlman*, and DiTomo*. 2015. Anaxyrus americanus (American toad). Arboreal behavior. Herpetological Review 46(2):229-230. (*Undergraduate student) 16. Yu, X., J. Hawley-Howard, Pitt, J. Wang, Baldwin, and Chow. 2015. Water quality of small, seasonal wetlands in the Piedmont ecoregion, South Carolina, USA: effects of land-use and hydrology. Water Research 73:98-108. DOI: 15. Pitt, , and Nickerson. 2014. Description and comparison of turtle assemblages and populations located within a spring-fed river.

7 Herpetological Conservation and Biology 9(3):475-483. 14. Hartzell, *, and Pitt. 2014. Glyptemys insculpta (wood turtle). Nesting habitat and behavior. Herpetological Review 45(4):687-688. (*Undergraduate student) 13. Pitt, , Tavano, Baldwin, and Waldrop. 2013. Effects of fuel reduction treatments on movement and habitat use of American toads (Anaxyrus americanus) in a southern Appalachian hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management 310:289-299. 12. Pitt, , and Nickerson. 2013. Potential recovery of a declined turtle population diminished by a community shift towards more generalist species.

8 Amphibia-Reptilia 34(2):193-200. 11. Pitt, , and Nickerson. 2012. Reassessment of the turtle community in the North Fork of White River, Ozark County, Missouri. Copeia 2012(3):367-374. 10. Pitt, (editor). 2012. Contributions from the Herpetology Conference including the All Florida Herpetological Event. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(4):217-278. 9. Nickerson, , and Pitt. 2012. Historical turtle population decline and community changes in an Ozark river. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(4):257-267. 8. Pitt, , Baldwin, Brown, Lipscomb, Hawley, Allard, and Leonard.

9 2012. The missing wetlands: using local ecological knowledge to find cryptic ecosystems. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:51-63. 7. Nickerson, , Ott, Castro, Garcia, Molina, Briggler, Pitt, Tavano, Byram, J. Barrila, and Nickerson. 2011. Evaluation of microorganisms cultured from injured and repressed tissue regeneration sites in endangered giant aquatic Ozark hellbender salamanders. PLoS ONE 6(12):e28906. 6. Pitt, , Allard, Hawley, Baldwin, and Brown. 2011. Lithobates sylvaticus (wood frog). Predation. Herpetological Review 42(2):263.

10 5. Pitt, , Hawley, Allard, Baldwin, and Brown. 2011. Notophthalmus viridescens (eastern newt). Necrophilia and cannibalism. Herpetological Review 42(2):258. 4. Nickerson, , Pitt, and Prysby. 2007. Die auswirkungen von hochwasser auf populationen des schlammteufels, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis Daudin, 1803. Der Salamander 3(2):111-117. 3. Nickerson, , Pitt, and Prysby. 2007. Effects of flooding on hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis Daudin, 1803, populations. Salamandra 43(2):111-117. 2. Tavano, , Pitt, and Nickerson.