Harold Heatwole

Harold Heatwole is an ecologist and herpetologist. His first PhD 
(University of Michigan) dealt with habitat use by amphibians, but then he
 branched out and studied other taxa, mostly reptiles and amphibians, but
 also ants, tarigrades, and seabirds. He earned a second PhD in Botany 
with a dissertation on the dynamics of vegetation on coral cays on the 
Great Barrier Reef of Australia (University of Queensland). He completed 
his education with a PhD in Geography (James Cook University) and a DsC
 (University of New England, Australia). He had faculty appointments at
 the University of Puerto Rico, University of New England, and currently is
 Professor of Biology at North Carolina State University and Adjunct
 Professor of Zoology at the University of New England. He is editor in
 Chief of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology. He is a Fellow
 of the Explorers Club.