Zack has worked on several field projects involving amphibians and reptiles in the USA, Latin America, and Madagascar. He started in the lab in 2017, conducting field work in Colombia showing that Pristimantis frogs track preferred temperatures from forest to clearings along an elevational gradient. Zack did his PhD in Luke Frishkoff’s lab at the University of Texas, Arlington. He graduated in 2025, and is currently a postdoc at Virginia Commonwealth University