Dr. George Brooks
POSTDOCTORAL NETWORK | Global Change Center
Postdoctoral Researcher
FACULTY MENTOR: Dr. William Hopkins
Department of Fish & Wildlife Conservation
boa10gb@vt.edu • Google Scholar • personal site
Dr. Brooks is an evolutionary ecologist. His research combines theory and quantitative methods to address challenges in conservation science. He primarily works with reptiles and amphibians, and some of his past research projects include conducting a population viability assessment for flatwoods salamanders, investigating the adaptive significance of cannibalism in Eastern hellbenders, and exploring the evolutionary history of live-birth in snakes and lizards.
Dr. Brooks is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech studying the evolution of life on land. He is interested in the contrasting pressures experienced in aquatic and terrestrial environments, and how those pressures shape vertebrate life histories. His work seeks to develop a framework to predict the susceptibility of different life-history strategies to novel threats and prioritize conservation efforts around the globe.
Dr. Brooks serves on the recovery team for flatwoods salamanders, runs workshops for graduate students on Inclusive Pedagogy, and teaches undergraduate courses in Herpetology, Natural History Collections, and Wildlife Field Biology.
The GCC postdoctoral network connects our outstanding postdoctoral researchers to our broader GCC community, and provides them with a variety of professional development opportunities such as training in mentorship, grant writing, and science communication.
