Academy Fellow David Blackburn, now Associate Curator of Herpetology in the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, headed the Academy’s Cameroon expeditions, regularly joined by biologist Brian Freiermuth, as well as participating researchers from outside institutions (including Vance Vrendenburg, a chytrid fungus expert from San Francisco State University, and Aaron Bauer, a biology professor at Villanova University). Graduate students Marcel Talla Kouete, Greg Jongsma, Dan Portik, and Becca Tarvin have also joined the expedition to conduct separate research on amphibians in the area.
During the past 10 years, Blackburn's fieldwork has received additional support from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the National Science Foundation.