Robin Lloyd is a recent recipient of the Alabama Audubon Walter F. Coxe Award and will be discussing his research on Gopher Tortoises in Alabama.

Lloyd is a fourth-year PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto in the Rollinson Lab, where he investigates the genetic architecture of temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles using quantitative genomics. His research integrates population genetics, developmental physiology, and climate change biology to better understand how environmental and genetic factors interact to shape sex ratios in natural populations.

Lloyd has over a decade of experience working with vertebrate systems, primarily herpetofauna, with additional experience in mammal and bird conservation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and marine ecology work in the Gulf of Mexico at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. He completed his undergraduate degree in 2017 at Auburn University, followed by his Master’s degree in 2020 from the University of South Alabama, where he researched gopher tortoise ecology and spatial distribution in southwest Alabama, before working as a wetlands ecologist for several years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–Mobile District.

He currently resides in Ontario, Canada, where he conducts long-term mark–recapture research on painted turtles in Algonquin Provincial Park, focusing on sex ratio dynamics and genome-wide variation in the subject population. In addition to his research, Robin teaches several courses at the University of Toronto, including vertebrate biodiversity and community ecology, as well as field courses in the temperate forests of Canada and the tropical rainforests of the Peruvian Amazon.

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