Dr. Steve Dinkelacker

Senior Advisor · Ph.D.

Field research · Anatomy · Conservation

Herpetologist & Biology Professor

Ph.D. herpetologist, biology professor, and field researcher specializing in reptile populations and habitat associations. Since 1998 he has studied turtle populations across the United States — bog, spotted, common snapping, Blanding's, alligator snapping, and Eastern and Western chicken turtles — and published peer-reviewed research on American alligators, including broad-scale habitat associations in North Carolina and Arkansas and the influence of climate change on population stability at northern latitudes. Since 2011 he has led an ongoing mark-recapture program on American alligators across the Albemarle Peninsula of North Carolina. A professor at universities across the country and a pioneer of online science teaching since 2015, he pairs rigorous field science with the classroom — and, for over a decade, the breeding bench, producing scrub pythons (Barnecks and Southerns), yellow-tail cribos, reticulated, blood, and ball pythons, among others.

Dr. Steve Dinkelacker is Senior Advisor · Ph.D. and a member of the faculty at Citadel Culebra, the online school of reptile-keeping, and is associated with Herpetologist & Biology Professor.