Terence Farrell

Professor of Biology

Terence Farrell was born in 1958 and caught ring-necked snakes and red-backed salamanders in his back yard four years later. Since 1989, he has been a faculty member at Stetson. For the much of the last two decades he has studied pigmy rattlesnakes and box turtles at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge with Dr. Peter May and a dedicated group of Stetson students. Approximately 20 of these students have published their work. He has also served as department chair and worked to improve Stetson's science facilities. In recent years he has won both the John Hague Award for outstanding teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences and the William Hugh McEniry Award for outstanding teaching at Stetson University.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, Calif., 1987-1989
Ph.D., zoology (minor in biometry), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore., 1987
B.S., biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn., 1980

Research

Ecology and behavior of turtles and rattlesnakes

Courses

Invertebrate Zoology
Biostatistical Methods
Ecology and Evolution

Publications

2009 Farrell, T.M., P.G. May, and M.A. Pilgrim. "Repeatability of female reproductive traits in pigmy rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius)." Journal of Herpetology, 43:332-335.
2011 T.M. Farrell, P.G. May, and P.T. Andreadis. "Experimental manipulation of tail color does not affect foraging success in a caudal luring rattlesnake." Journal of Herpetology 45:291-293.
2011 Pilgrim, M.A., T.M. Farrell and P.G. May, M.R. Vollman, and R.A. Seigel. "Secondary sex ratios in six snake species." Copeia. 2011:553-558.
2011 Farrell, T.M., M.A. Pilgrim, W.B. Blihovde, and P.G. May. "The Herpetofauna of Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge, Florida." Southeastern Naturalist. 10:647-658.
2011 Schultheis, A.S., T.M. Farrell, and E.L. Paul. "Promoting Undergraduate Research through Improved Tenure and Promotion Policies." Council for Undergraduate Research Quarterly. 31:25-31.
2011 H.L. Gibbs, L. Sanz, J.E. Chiucchi, T.M. Farrell, and J.J. Calvete. "Proteomic analysis of ontogenetic and diet related changes in venom composition of juvenile and adult Dusky Pigmy rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri)." Journal of Proteomics. 10:2169-2179.

Faculty Expert

Pigmy Rattlesnakes

Florida Reptiles

Snake Bites

Email

tfarrell@stetson.edu

Phone

386-822-8171