“I first sampled the blackbelly salamander back in 2008 during work on my dissertation,” said Beamer, Ph.D., of Nash Community College and The Amphibian Foundation.

A blackbelly salamander is seen in 2014 on the Tennesee side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. What Is Your Research Focusing On? With regard to pathology, we’re looking at a few different ...

Until recently, it was thought that 30 species of salamander live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But a recent article in Bionomia, the international journal devoted to biological naming ...