Dr. Jason T. Irwin

Education

Ph.D. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 2000

Teaching

Human Anatomy and Physiology, Zoophysiology, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Entomology

Research

Physiological and ecological aspects of cold tolerance, particularly in freeze-tolerant insects and amphibians.

Recent Publications

• Irwin, J.T. 2005. Overwintering in northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans). In Amphibian Decline: The Conservation Status of United States Species (Lannoo, M.J., ed.). University of California Press, Los Angeles.
• Irwin, J.T., and R.E. Lee, Jr. 2003. Geographic variation in energy storage and physiological responses to freezing in the gray treefrogs, Hyla versicolor andH. chrysoscelis. Journal of Experimental Biology, 206: 2859-2867.
• Irwin, J.T., J.P. Costanzo, and R.E. Lee, Jr. 2003. Post-freeze reduction of locomotor endurance in the freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica.Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 76: 331-338.
• Irwin, J.T., and R.E. Lee, Jr. 2003. Cold winter microenvironments conserve energy and improve overwintering survival and potential fecundity of the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae). Oikos 100: 71-78.
• Irwin, J.T., and R.E. Lee, Jr. 2002. Energy and water conservation in frozen versus supercooled larvae of the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis Fitch (Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of Experimental Zoology 292: 345-350.