My name is Derek Coss, and I currently travel around the world finding exciting opportunities in environmental conservation and education. Currently, I am living in Japan teaching English and enjoying the culture and country.

 

My primary background, however, is in animal behavior and environmental conservation work. I obtained my MSc from Salisbury University, and my research is highlighted in this website. I studied sexual selection in Dr. Ryan Taylor and Dr. Kimberly Hunter's lab, studying the túngara frog, a small neotropical frog found in Central America. Túngara frogs are excellent organisms for studying acoustic and visual communication, and through phonotaxis experiments we tested how they perceive these signals under various conditions.