Joe is a Full Professor in the Department of Biology at Loyola University Chicago. He received his Bachelors from Adrian College, his Masters from Arkansas State University (working in Dr. Stan Trauth's lab) and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (working in Dr. John Maerz's lab). From 2010 to 2013 Joe was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati working under Dr. Matt Hopton, and in August 2013 he joined the faculty at Loyola Chicago. Joe teaches Ecology, Conservation Biology, and Natural History of Vertebrates. His research examines the impact of global change on amphibian and reptile distributions, the impact of urbanization on the physiological health, stoichiometry and stable isotope compositions of food webs, and the importance of herpetofauna to nutrient cycling and storage in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.