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The Newsletter of the Diamondback Terrapin Working Group Volume 5 Issue 1
Summer 2020
The
Diamondback
Terrapin
Working Group (DTWG) held the
8th Symposium on the Ecology,
Status and Conservation of the
Diamondback
Terrapin
in
Wilmington,
North
Carolina
October 11—13, 2019.
The
Symposium is held every three
years to provide diamondback
terrapin
researchers
and
conservationists
with
the
opportunity to share the results
of their work, catch up with
friends and colleagues, build new
collaborations, and plan the way
forward to
insure there are
healthy
populations
of
diamondback terrapins in our coastal marshes for future generations. The 2019 meeting was attended
by 68 participants from across the country. The program included 42 presentations, 15 of which were
presented with students as the first author; we awarded nine $450 travel
grants to support symposium attendance by students. Dr. Russell Burke
received the 2019 Terrapin Conservation Award in recognition of his numerous
contributions to our understanding of terrapin biology and his long-term
research and conservation initiatives in Jamaica Bay, New York. Joseph
Facendola, a Fisheries Biologist with the North Carolina Division of Marine
Fisheries, opened the Symposium with a keynote presentation entitled
“Mitigating Diamondback Terrapin Interactions with the North Carolina Blue
Crab Fishery: Past, Present, and Future Challenges”. Fisheries interactions
present one of the most pressing conservation challenges for the diamondback
terrapin in the coastal Carolinas and throughout the species’ range.
(continued on page 3)
2019 Symposium Summary
3
Terrapin Conservation Award
4
2019 Business Meeting
5
2020 Research Grants
5
DTWG Goals
6
Recent Publications
7-8
Grant Opportunities
9
Inside this issue:
Summary of the 8th Symposium on the Ecology, Status,
and Conservation of the Diamondback Terrapin
Photo: Julia Singer
Photo: Amanda Williard
Terrapin Times - Volume 5 Issue