Our lab seeks to understand how animals navigate the challenges of reproduction and how ecological and social environments shape the decisions that determine reproductive success. Using frogs as a model system, we investigate how acoustic communication mediates social and reproductive interactions, how individuals choose where to reproduce, and how parents balance investment in offspring with their own survival. We combine behavioral observations, bioacoustics, experiments, and natural history approaches to connect these decisions to their ecological and evolutionary consequences. Increasingly, our work also asks how environmental change alters reproductive behavior and the outcomes of these decisions. We also use natural history collections as a complementary research and educational resource, from investigating patterns of sexual dimorphism to developing opportunities for undergraduate research and integrating collections-based learning into the classroom.