Hello everyone! Reporting live from the 2022 Kane County Blandings Field Season! In our first post of the season, we would like to introduce this year's Wildlife Epidemiology Lab students! My name is Dylan Burke and I am a second-year veterinary student at the University of Illinois and received a B.S. in Animal Science here [...]
The last time I was at Nachusa, I was in elementary school. Back then, we called it “the buffalo place”. Cue Hannah Montana, “You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home”. I have changed a lot since Monroe Center Elementary took a field trip out to see the Lee County buffalo. I think at that point [...]
Lake Co. Blanding Blog post coming soon
Kane County Blanding post coming soon!
Hello and welcome to the turtle-y awesome Cook County blog! You heard that right, this summer is the first summer that the Wildlife Epidemiology Lab will be working alongside Cook County Forest Preserve to save the world one turtle at a time! My name is Kami Grochowski and I am a first year veterinary student [...]
Turtle Doc to Range Control – 1 PAX 1 VIC all clear of the training area. Well folks, the time has come for me to leave Cape Cod and say goodbye to all my turtle (& human!) friends that I have made this summer. I had an absolute blast out in the field and will [...]
These past few weeks in Cape Cod have been spent turtle tracking, reading scientific papers, and getting started on my manuscript! After some significant writer’s block, I have finally put some words down on paper and am getting way too excited about publishing this research for all of you to read! My summer office [...]
I am in denial that I only have two more weeks in beautiful Cape Cod. This summer has flown by and I don’t want it to end…OK I won’t get too emotional now because we still have a lot of turtles to track! Nicole, my roomie and turtle-tracking sidekick, is a pro at using radiotelemetry and [...]
Alexis removing a frog from the trap while Maura holds the trap above water Welcome back readers! Full disclosure, we wrote this blog about 4 weeks ago and forgot to ever publish it. So, now we get a walk down memory lane while Maura and Alexis are working our way through all of [...]
Hello beloved readers! Alexis and Maura reporting live from our lab in Champaign, reminding about the final week in the field. The last week in the field was definitely bittersweet for all! The week started off while Joey and Natalie placed traps at the two final sites of the field season, Alexis and Maura took [...]
