Education
He earned his B.S in zoology and Master of Surgery in biology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working with William Glen Bradley, a mammalogist, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine under Albert F. Bennett a comparative physiologist. During his Doctor of Philosophy work, he recorded the maximum speed (346 km/h) of what to date remains the world"s fastest lizard, Ctenosaura similis. Subsequently, he completed postdoctoral training at the University of Washington with Raymond B. Huey.
Career
He was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for 14 years, served as a program director for the Population Biology and Physiological Ecology Program at the National Science Foundation during 1991-1992, and is Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside. While in graduate school, he served as President of the Southern Nevada Herpetology Association. Garland is the Editor in Chief for the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, is a Topic Editor for Comprehensive Physiology, is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Zoology, and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Morphology, The American Naturalist, and Evolution.
He is an Associate Director for the Network for Experimental Research on Evolution, a University of California Multicampus Research Program.
His major scientific contributions have been in the areas of lizard locomotor physiology and ecology, allometry, phylogenetic comparative methods ). And the application of artificial selection experiments to understand the correlated evolution of physiology and behavior, as well as the physiological, neurobiological, and genetic bases of voluntary activity levels (physical exercise).
