Michael J. Lannoo is a professor of anatomy and cell biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the author of Okoboji Wetlands: A Lesson in Natural History (Iowa, 1996), Malformed Frogs: The Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems, and Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism and the editor of Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians (Iowa, 1998) and Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species.