Using non-invasively collected skin sheds from threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnakes to determine sex of wild, reintroduced, and zoo-housed snakes to increase the accuracy of conservation decisions (Chen et al., in prep).
Longitudinal study of body mass and growth rate of eastern massasauga rattlesnakes in zoos using the Zoological Information Management System (Species 360 ZIMS) (Chen & Mastromonaco, submitted).
The largest clutch of tiger salamanders ever produced from cryopreserved sperm was acheived in 2021 using a newly tested sperm cryoprotectant treatment (Chen et al., 2025).
Nine species of at-risk lemur species were captured using arboreal camera traps which led to occupancy modeling to inform on population status. (Chen et al., 2021)