Martha L "Marty" Crump is a behavioral ecologist in the Department of Biology and the Ecology Center at Utah State University who studies amphibians and reptiles.
13 Facts About Marty Crump
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Marty Crump has co-authoried one of the most popular modern herpetology textbooks, Herpetology as well as the memoir In Search of the Golden Frog and a number of other books for both adults and children.
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Martha L "Marty" Crump was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and her interest in ecology and the environment were spurred by her childhood spent in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
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Marty Crump received her master's degree at the University of Kansas for her research in Brazil concerning amphibians and reptiles, and did her doctorate research in Ecuador on frogs' reproductive behavior.
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Marty Crump was the first individual to perform a long-term ecological study on a community of tropical amphibians.
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Marty Crump studied reproductive strategies in the neotropical anuran community at Santa Cecilia, Ecuador and recognized ten different modes of reproduction.
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Marty Crump was a pioneer in classifying variability in amphibian egg size as a function of habitat predictability.
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Marty Crump's research, focusing on tropical tree frogs, shows that in species that breed in temporary ponds, individual females produce clutches that have a greater range of egg sizes while those breeding in permanent ponds have a very concentrated distribution, rarely deviating from the mean.
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Marty Crump has been involved in several conservation activities, including acting as a board member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as part of the DAPTF from 2000 to 2010.
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Marty Crump has held several editorial positions including Associate Editor of Herpetological Natural History from 2000 to 2006 and has served as an officer in several professional organizations including the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, and The Herpetologists' League.
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Marty Crump is currently the Program Officer for the annual scientific conference Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
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Marty Crump co-authored all four editions of one of the two most popular modern herpetology textbooks, Herpetology.
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In 1997, Marty Crump received the Distinguished Herpetologist Award from The Herpetologists' League.