Robert A. Thomas

Loyola Chair in Environmental Communications (Department of Communications)
E-mail: rathomas@loyno.edu
Phone: 865-2107, Office: Communications/Music 327
Website:  http://www.loyno.edu/lucec

Ph.D. in Vertebrate Systematics, Texas A&M University, 1976.

Research interests

His biological research interests are in the area of the systematics of South American and Caribbean snakes and the status of declining amphibian populations. His communications students and he are involved in several studies analyzing how environmental issues are covered in the press. Additionally, he is very active in environmental communications and journalism in the West Indies and Central America .

Recent publications

Herpetologia, Journal of Herpetology, and Texas Journal of Science.

Courses

Courses taught in Biological Sciences Herpetology (BIOL A345 & A346), Ecology of the Mississippi River Delta Region (BIOL Z144), and Tropical Biology (BIOL A118). Also teaches Introduction to Environmental Communications (CMMN A370), Covering the Environmental Beat (CMMN A371), and several other courses on occasion.