A Tale of Two Lab Girlies
This week, it was time to roll up our sleeves, put on a lab coat, and analyze some of our own box turtle samples! We also had the opportunity to help our zoo residents with [...]
When Your Waders are Wet but there’s Turtles to Catch
This past week the Walder team and Dr. Kaitlin Moorehead (Ph.D. student in WEL) worked with Du Page field biologist, Dan Thompson, to trap turtles in Du Page County. Dan Thompson has been lead biologist [...]
What’s the Password?
On Friday May 26th, Lake County team, Walder team, box turtle team, and Dr. Kaitlin Moorehead (Ph.D. student in WEL) came together to trap and track turtles in Lake County. Everyone split up the work [...]
#StuckSurina
This week is brought to you by World Turtle Day and very sticky marsh mud. While Week 2 was a short week for us, we were still able to have a successful haul and [...]
Dunkin’ in the Des Plaines
We started this week nice and early on Monday morning setting a plethora (27!) of traps along the Des Plaines river with Paul from the USDA! While we didn't catch any turtles that day, Kami [...]