Terrapin Station and Freshwater Turtles

05/24/2018

Happy Turtle Day, Everyone!

"The purpose of World Turtle Day, May 23, sponsored yearly since 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue, is to bring attention to, and increase knowledge of and respect for turtles and tortoises, and encourage human action to help them survive and thrive."

(Photo: State-Threatened Red-bellied Turtles using a basking platform made of recycled plastic at Silver Lake, Bristol, Pennsylvania USA).

08/13/2015

An interesting male terrapin captured yesterday at Barnegat Bay, NJ. Note the curvature of the plastron and entire body.

08/05/2015

Setting a fyke with our field team in Barnegat Bay today to estimate how the population size has changed since Hurricane Sandy.

04/10/2015

Congratulations to Dr. Abigail Dominy who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation today on the visual ecology of the diamondback terrapin!

04/06/2015

Ever wonder how invasive species can impact their native counterparts? So did Steven Pearson! Check out his new publication to learn more about red-eared slider turtles' impact on red-bellied turtles!
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320715001044

03/24/2015

Frank Mazzeo, an independent fisherman, wears a baseball hat with a simple message: “Eat. Sleep. Fish.”

03/06/2015

Great news for terrapins in New Jersey!

Due to pressures from increased harvesting of northern diamondback terrapins in coastal areas of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin has signed an Administrative Order closing the remainder of the commercial...

12/12/2013

Check out our brand new article on the interactions between recreational boats and terrapins in Barnegat Bay, NJ. Thanks to all the Earthwatch volunteers and staff members who made this research possible!

10/10/2013

A study on the effects of longline fishing on turtles and sharks was just published from our lab! Congrats to terrapin team alum Derek Dapp! http://drexel.edu/now/news-media/releases/archive/2013/October/Costa-Rica-Longline-Fishery-Threatens-Sea-Turtles-Sharks/

The second-most-common catch on Costa Rica’s longline fisheries in the last decade was not a commercial fish species. It was olive ridley sea turtles. These lines also caught more green turtles than most species of fish.

08/29/2013

This is what happens when terrapin blood samples are collected for 7 years. We roughly estimate 3,600 samples...and all of them are nicely alphabetized!

08/14/2013

Awesome photo feature in LBI's local SandPaper of our QUEST teacher team this past July!
http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/nj-teachers-investigate-terrapins-storm-modified-habitat/1034549

A group of eight New Jersey teachers who studied at the Lighthouse Center for Natural Resource Education in Waretown stood around the dock at Bob’s Bay Marina in Barnegat discussing the impact of severe weather on terrapin populations (and old LBI memories) just before 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 11...

08/07/2013

Abby Dominy is making waves with her visual ecology research! Check it out!!
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351373/description/News_in_Brief_Highlights_from_the_Evolution_2013_meeting

Terrapins' light displays, a natural fish experiment and how a variety of eye colors persist in white Europeans, presented June 21-25 in Snowbird, Utah