page_title: Leslie Rissler
hierarchical_section_title: Leslie Rissler
caption_attribution_description: English: Leslie J Rissler with Kobayashi's horned frog in Borneo.
context_page_description: Leslie Jane Rissler is an American biologist best known for her work on amphibian and reptile biogeography, evolutionary ecology, systematics, and conservation
  , and for her strong advocacy of improving the public’s understanding and appreciation of evolution. She is currently Program Officer in the Evolutionary Processes Cluster of the Division of Environmental Biology and Directorate of Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
  Rissler was formerly at the University of Alabama, where she was a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Curator of Herpetology
context_section_description: Leslie Jane Rissler (b May 11, 1969) is an American biologist best known for her work on amphibian and reptile biogeography, evolutionary ecology, systematics, and conservation 
  
  , and for her strong advocacy of improving the public’s understanding and appreciation of evolution. She is currently Program Officer in the Evolutionary Processes Cluster of the Division of Environmental Biology and Directorate of Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
  Rissler was formerly at the University of Alabama (2003-2015), where she was a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Curator of Herpetology
caption: with Kobayashi's horned frog in Borneo, 2012.
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