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Jessica Snoddy	Jessica is a graduate of Southampton College of Long Island University. During her undergraduate years, Jessica gained experience working in aquaculture and fisheries, as well as in wildlife radio tracking techniques. For her MSc research, Jessica will investigate the behavior and movements of sea turtles released alive from fishing gear, with the ultimate goal of refining post-release mortality estimates used for fisheries management.


Lisa Goshe	Lisa graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and currently is employed by the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Beaufort Laboratory. Lisa has experience using skeletochronology to assess age and growth in sea turtles, and will be using these techniques to refine sea turtle population demographics as part of her MSc research. She is co-supervised by Larisa Avens at the NOAA Beaufort Laboratory.


JAMES CASEY	James graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005. His current graduate research combines the use of satellite-linked data recorders and stomach temperature pills to document leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) foraging behavior in the North Atlantic. Prior to his entry as a master’s student, James was involved in turtle conservation research projects at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, Edisto Beach State Park on Edisto Island, South Carolina and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Most recently, he monitored the sea turtle nesting activity and hatchling emergence success on Masonboro Island, North Carolina during 2007 nesting season.


LEIGH ANNE HARDEN	Leigh Anne is a 2007 graduate of Davidson College, NC where she received a BS in Biology. While attaining her undergraduate degree, she worked in the Davidson College Herpetology Laboratory where she focused her research on semi-aquatic turtles. She gained experience using several field/sampling techniques such as radio tracking, seining, hoop-net trapping, temperature data-loggers, and mark-recapture. For the past three years, she has been involved with a long-term mark-recapture study in Kiawah, SC on diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) conducted by researchers from Davidson College and UGA’s Savannah River Ecology Lab. She plans to take her experience from this study and apply it to salt marshes in southeastern NC to learn more about terrapin ecology, physiology, and behavior in this region. Her MSc will focus on the spatial ecology and thermal biology of diamondback terrapins in Middle Sound using radio-telemetry in conjunction with and temperature micro-dataloggers.