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aligreto, Wegi, M3acull Berkeley reptile and amphibian expert Robert Stebbins dies at 98By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | September 27, 2013 BERKELEY  Robert C. Stebbins, the preeminent expert on western North American reptiles and amphibians who was best known for writing and illustrating A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, died at his home in Eugene, Ore., on Monday, Sept. 23. He was 98.
Connecting with nature In his later years, Stebbins’ passion manifested itself in educational outreach to school children, in whom he hoped to spark an interest in nature. He made two educational films about conservation and nature with the Sierra Club and wrote several science books for elementary school students. His most recent book, Connecting with Nature: A Naturalist’s Perspective (Llumina Press, 2009), was a mix of personal stories, hands-on activities for children, and arguments for studying ecology as a pathway to connecting with nature.
Berkeley years He was hired by UC Berkeley in 1945 as the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology’s first curator of herpetology and as an assistant professor of zoology. In addition to identifying and collating specimens for the museum, he began research on the ecology and evolution of the Ensatina salamander and its many subspecies that ring California’s Central Valley. He later did research on the function of reptiles’ pineal gland, or so called third eye, but increasingly focused on illustrating and describing reptiles and amphibians from around the West. Stebbins was a painstaking scientific illustrator, Wake said, often studying his live specimens for days before beginning to paint a watercolor portrait. Upon retirement in 1978, Stebbins took professional painting lessons and produced many beautiful oil portraits of animals and landscapes.
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