Meet the Turtle Dogs!
Wildlife Disease and Reptile Trivia
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Week 10: Blanding’s Blunders and Bloopers
Throughout our summer blog we have mainly focused on our accomplishments and the fun we have had while working. However, this summer was not always sunshine and rainbows. This week we want to highlight some of the “challenges" we experienced and never discussed. Oh the things we have learned... Don’t freeze your Complete Blood [...]
Alligator Snapping Turtle: Sample Collection and Processing
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Week 9: The Turtle Tapes – Our Summer in 8 Minutes
Time is counting down until we are out of the field and into the lab. We have collected over 300 samples thus far and we have a lot of hematology work and DNA extractions to get going on. Over the past few short months, we have tried to capture the highlights of the amazing "work" [...]
Coded for Success
The first time I learned about DNA was in biology class my freshman year of high school. I learned that DNA is made up of paired letters that form a twisting ladder structure, and that the structure determines how living things look and function. I learned more about how my own set of DNA [...]
Week 8: Team work makes the dream work
This week, we are going to change things up! We wanted to showcase the incredible, amazing, wonderful, fantastic team we have been working and living with this summer so we asked everyone to write a little bio about themselves!! Working with this group has truly been an awesome experience and they help make work fun [...]
Week 7: Blanding’s Bowl IV
Who got the most Blanding's in their traps? Who avoided all the snappers? Who got the most hand-caps? Who got those big bonus points? This week was all about the Bowl... the Blanding’s Bowl that is! The biggest competition in turtle history that lasts one week after the end of nesting season in celebration of [...]
Week 6: Digging Holes and Dropping Eggs
Nesting season is winding down and that means that we are no longer monitoring our turtles at night to see where they lay eggs! We were able to follow a total of 21 turtles as they naturally nested in the wild and those nests will be periodically checked for depredation (destruction of nest by animals [...]
Two Weeks of Turtling Adventures!
Over the past two weeks, I decided to take a few breaks from research to see what my peers were up to so far this summer! I was able to go on a few short road trips, spend lots of time in the field soaking up the sun, and hang out with ENDLESS amounts of [...]