3rd Box Turtle Conservation Workshop
A Box Turtle Conservation Workshop will be held November 9-10, 2007 at
Patuxent Research Refuge's National Wildlife Visitor Center in Laurel,
Maryland. This is the third in a series of workshops aimed at bringing
together individuals actively engaged in box turtle research and
conservation to assess the status of these species, the challenges they
face, and to devise strategies to help secure their future. The
workshop is sponsored by the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, The Humane
Society of the United States, and the North Carolina Zoological Park.
This workshop will focus exclusively on research studies of box turtle
population status, ecology, and life history strategies. It is widely
accepted that box turtle populations are declining throughout their
range, yet few efforts have been made to assess current population
status in the interest of developing long-term conservation strategies.
The principal goals of this workshop will be to provide current
information, where it exists, on population size assessment throughout
the species' range, and to initiate population studies in as many
states as possible where these turtles occur.
Researchers are invited to submit abstracts of 500 words or less
describing your ongoing or completed research in one of the workshop
subject areas. The abstract should be submitted as an attachment
(Microsoft Word format preferred); please do not paste the abstract
directly into your email message. In your email message, please
include: your name, organizational affiliation, presentation title, and
indicate your preference for giving an oral presentation or a poster.
Also, please include all of your contact information.
Submit your abstract to shagood@hsus.org and mfinkle@hsus.org. The
deadline for receiving abstracts is July 1, 2007; authors will be
notified by August 1 that their abstract was accepted. Abstracts will
be reviewed by the conference organizers and will be evaluated on the
basis of their consistency with the workshop objectives and the
geographic area represented by the project/research study that is
described.
To view and download a report on the first Box Turtle conservation
workshop held in 2004, please visit,
http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/urban_wildlife_our_wild_neighbors_box_turtle_workshop_summary.html.
We hope to have travel funds available for some speakers. If you have
questions about the workshop, please contact Chris Swarth
(cswarth@jugbay.org) or Susan Hagood (shagood@hsus.org).
