Dr. Wostl Joined the Department of Biological Sciences at St. Edward's in 2020. He teaches Human Physiology, Human Anatomy, and Vertebrate Biology. His research at St. Edward's is focused on vertebrate communities and their response to anthropogenic changes of the environment. Dr. Wostl earned his Ph.D. From the University of Texas, Arlington where he worked on the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeography of amphibians and reptiles on the Sunda Shelf.
As a biologist, I am interested in the processes that shape the distribution of organisms. In pursuit of this interest I have worked on a broad range of taxa in a diverse array of settings ranging from critical habitat assessments for bats in Colorado, the impact of invasive predators on Guam, the drivers of evolution in Trinidad killifish, and the work I conducted for my Ph. D. studying amphibians and reptiles in Southeast Asia.
In 1968, the Senegalese environmentalist Baba Dioum famously stated: "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught." At St. Ed’s, I get to combine my passions for teaching and research. In the process, I strive to engender student’s understanding, and love, of the world around them.
Ph. D. in Quantitative Biology. University of Texas at Arlington
B. A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. University of Colorado, Boulder