The following people have registered to attend the 2025 online ISG Meeting.
An * denotes a presentation. Download the Abstracts and Agenda for the meeting here.
Allison Alberts – International Iguana Foundation, California, USA (LinkedIn; ResearchGate; EcoLeaders)
Ron Andrew – Division of Forestry and Land Resource Management, Saint Lucia, West Indies
Baptiste Angin – Ardops Environnement, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, French West Indies
*Daniel Ariano-Sánchez – Centro de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
“Update on Ctenosaura palearis Conservation Program”
Garry Auguiste – WildDominique, Roseau, Dominica
Chuck Becker – Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
John Bendon – IUCN-UK Committe member, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK
Etienne Bezault – Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, & WildDominique, Dominica
John Binns – International Reptile Conservation Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA (homepage)
*Kelly Bradley – Fort Worth Zoo, Texas, USA
“Conservation Update for the Anegada Rock Iguana (Cyclura pinguis)”
*Amie Bräutigam – International Iguana Foundation, Washington D.C., USA
“International Iguana Foundation: Update on Activities and Plans for the Future”
*Jeanelle Brisbane – Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, & WildDominique, Dominica
“Genetics Without Borders: Regional Collaboration for the Survival of the Lesser Antillean Iguana”
Tom Brown – Kanahau Wildlife Conservation Organization, Útila, Honduras
Judith Bryja – Independent, Morrison, Colorado, USA
Sandra Buckner – Independent, Nassau, The Bahamas
*Paul Bunker – Chiron K9, Somerset, Texas, USA
“Iguana Detection Canine: Meeting the Challenges of Training Canines to Detect Rare Species”
Joseph Burgess – Gulf Islands National Seashore, National Park Service, Gulf Breeze, Florida
Damany Calder – National Environment and Planning Agency, Kingston, Jamaica
*Paul Calle – Wildlife Conservation Society (Emeritus), Bronx, NY USA
“Lessons Learned from Long Term Health Assessments of the Grand Cayman Iguana (Cyclura lewisi)
Aloysius Charles – Department of Forestry, Saint Lucia, West Indies
*Giuliano Colosimo – University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
“Quantifying the Response of an Endemic Island Species to Cat Eradication: Are the Iguanas Coming Back?”
Ken Conley – Disney’s Animals, Science, and Environment, Orlando, Florida, USA
Daniel Cueva – Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Jennifer Daltry – Re:wild and Fauna & Flora
*Kevin de Queiroz – National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
“The Spiny-tailed Iguanas of Clarion Island: Introduced or Native?”
*Nathalie Duporge – Independent, Le Carbet, Martinique, French West Indies (LinkedIn; FaceBook personal; homepage; FaceBook AquaSearch)
“Monitoring Efficiency of Iguana Control Measures in Martinique — A Protocol Challenge”
*Zach Dykema – Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
“Quantifying Losses of Genomic Variation Using a RADseq Approach in Serially Bottlenecked Populations of Cyclura pinguis, the Critically Endangered Anegada Rock Iguana”
Andrea Echeverry Alcendra – IUCN SSC Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Daniel Emanuel – Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
Cielo Figuerola – Island Conservation, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, USA
Susannah French – Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
*Miguel Garcia – US Fish and Wildlife Service, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Conservation Actions to Extant and Extirpated Cyclura Iguanas in the Puerto Rican Archipelago”
*Lorenzo Garizio – University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
“Integrating Metagenomic and Morphological Approaches to Assess Diet and Trophic Niche Overlap in Galápagos Land Iguanas”
Glenroy Gaymes – Forestry Department, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
*Gabriele Gentile – University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
“Joint presentation with Victor Reynoso”
Richard Gibson – Auckland Zoo, New Zealand
*Johana Gil – Heloderma Natural Reserve, Zacapa, Guatemala
“Joint presentation with Daniel Ariano”
*Matt Goetz – Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands
“Regional Approach to Iguana delicatissima Conservation Through Disease Testing and Biosecurity Insight”
Ashley Goode – Independent, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
*Tandora Grant – Independent, San Diego, California, USA (ResearchGate)
“Red List Updating Plan and Green List Primer”
Jane Haakonsson – Department of Environment, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Peter Harlow – Independent, New South Wales, Australia
Evert Henningheim – Dutch Iguana Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Julia López-Delgado – University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Jose Luis Herrera – Island Conservation, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, USA
Arica Hill – Fauna & Flora, Americas & Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda
Kirsten Hines – Independent, Miami, Florida, USA
Saphira Hunt – Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Saint Lucia, West Indies
John Iverson – Earlham College, Indiana, USA (homepage)
Jill Jollay – Independent, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Luke Jones – Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, UK
Rory Keenan – Zoos Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Charles Knapp – John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois, USA (homepage; GoogleScholar; ResearchGate)
Kirtana Kumar – University of Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
Catherine Malone – Independent, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leighton Mamdeen – National Environment and Planning Agency, Kingston, Jamaica
Joey Markx – Dutch Iguana Foundation, The Netherlands
*Daisy Maryon – Kanahau Wildlife Conservation Organization, Útila, Honduras
“Saving the Swamper — Progress Updates on the IUCN SSC Conservation Action Plan for Ctenosaura bakeri 2020–2025″
José Luis Matamoros – Fundacion Islas de la Bahia, Útila, Honduras
Philip Mayhew – Albuquerque BioPark, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Adam Mitchell – St. Eustatius National Parks Foundation, Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands
*Blaklie Mitchell – Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
“Assessing the Impact of Trade Bans on Invasive Iguana Populations in Southern Florida Through Mathematical Modeling”
Yoni Muggen-van Uden – Dutch Iguana Foundation, Koningsbosch, Limburg, The Netherlands (homepage)
Saifudeen Muhammad – Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists Club, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Farah Mukhida – Anguilla National Trust, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies
*Ann-Elizabeth Nash – University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, USA
“Do Male Personality Traits Drive Copulation Success?”
Karin Nelson – University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sophie O’Hehir – University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Cecilia Paradiso – University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
“Genetic Load in Syntopic Populations of Two Species of Endangered Galápagos Land Iguanas with Divergent Demographic Histories”
*Stesha Pasachnik – Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (ResearchGate; LinkedIn)
“Conservation of the Jamaican Rock Iguana (Cyclura collei)”
Nancy Pascoe – National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Kidan Patanant – Independant, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Prakriti Pathak – Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
Julie Pauwels – Independent, Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Cayle Pearson – Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Florida, USA
Paul Perez – Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
*David Iván Pérez Ramírez – El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
“How is the Habitat of Ctenosaura similis in Southern Mexico?”
Sean Perry – Mississippi Aquarium, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
Treya Picking – Re:wild, Kingston, Jamaica
Andrea Pizarro – Fauna & Flora, Cambridge, UK
Nakita Poon Kong – Fauna & Flora, Antigua & Barbuda
*Elaine Powers – Lyric Power Publishing, Tucson, Arizona, USA
“Presenting Science in Entertainment Media to Increase Public Outreach”
Jess Proctor – Galápagos Conservancy, Washington D.C., USA
*Kim Rainwater – Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
“Updates From 2024–2025 Jamaican Iguana (Cyclura collei) Health Assessments”
Jan Ramer – Columbus Zoo and The Wilds, Cumberland, Ohio, USA
Bonnie L. Raphael – Independant, New York City, New York, USA
David Reid – National Environment and Planning Agency, Kingston, Jamaica
*Victor Hugo Reynoso – Pabellón Nacional de la Biodiversidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
“Update: Iguana Research and Outreach Conducted in México Associated with CAWs (Collaborators All Around the World)”
Ernst Rupp – Grupo Jaragua, Oviedo, Provincia de Pedernales, Dominican Republic
Ashawnte Russell – Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
Kaysie Ryan – Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Montserrat, West Indies
Stacey Sekscienski – Albuquerque BioPark, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Shania Stephens – National Environment and Planning Agency, Kingston, Jamaica
Alexandra Sumarli – University of California, Riverside, California, USA
*Nunia Thomas-Moko – NatureFiji-MareqetiViti, Suva, Fiji
“Progress of the Fiji Iguana Species Recovery Plan”
Nadin Thompson – Creature Care, St. Joseph, Trinidad
Wendy Townsend – Independent, Callicoon, New York, USA
*Matthijs van den Burg – Independent, Den Haag, South Holland, The Netherlands
“An Update on the Removal Efforts for Non-native Iguanas on Saba, Caribbean Netherlands”
Jeroen van Kuijk – Independent, Best, North Brabant, The Netherlands
Jethro van’t Hul – St. Eustatius National Parks Foundation, Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands
Andrea Varela – University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Rick Van Veen – Independent, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Jeannette Victor – Department of Forestry, Saint Lucia, West Indies
Isabel Vique – Re:wild, Cambridge, UK
Nicholas Walker – WildDominique, Roseau, Dominica
Joseph Wasilewski – Natural Selections of South Florida, Homestead, Florida, USA
George Waters – TerraNet Group, Saint Augustine, Florida, USA
Jimmy Wehsener – University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Mark Welch – Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
Rachel Welt – American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA
*Damion Whyte – University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
“Evaluation of the Proposed Great Goat Island Wildlife Sanctuary for the Reintroduction of the Critically Endangered Jamaican Iguana (Cyclura collei)”
Tom Wiewandt – Wild Horizons, Inc., Tucson, Arizona, USA
Byron Wilson – Independent, Kentfield, California, USA
Joshel Wilson – Environmental Awareness Group, Joshel Wilson, Saint George’s, Antigua
Ali Zakariyya – Independent, Port of Spain, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago
Eugenia Zarza – El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
