The Terrapin, Tortoise, & Freshwater Turtle Meeting at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. The Terrapin, Tortoise, & Freshwater Turtle Meeting will take place 2-4 February 2013, 2013. [8:00 AM 5:00 PM & 7:00 10:00PM on Saturday and Sunday, February 2nd and 3rd and 8:00 AM 3:00 PM on Monday, February 4th at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, 700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, Maryland. This year it is dedicated to Ernie Liner and Susan Hagood.
It looks like its going to be quite a gathering with over sixty presentations over three days: Saturday North America, etc., Sunday International plus, Monday Mostly Terrapins. And we just added video nights on Saturday and Sunday. Add to this, four more days of sea turtle presentations, posters, an exciting variety of exhibitors and vendors, over 1,200 attendees representing over 75 countries, evening activities, live auction, and banquet and you have the largest chelonian congregation to date! There will also be book signings by Carl Ernst, Peter Pritchard, and Dick Vogt. Many of their books will be on sale at the meeting. Our Speakers to date include: Omar Attum, Dincer Ayaz, Tom Akre, Patrick Baker, Al Breisch, Russ Burke, Joe Butler, Edwin Cadena, Christina Castellano, Rebecca Christoffel, Justin Congdon, Jack Cover, Sean Doody, Dana Ehret, Carl Ernst (keynote), Andres Estrades, Camila Ferrara, Nancy Fitsimmons, Eric Goode, Cris Hagen, Kristen Hart, Mike Jones, Thushan Kapurusinghe, Yakup Kaska, Thomas Leuteritz, Greg Lewbart, Peter Lindeman, Jeff Miller, Asghar Mobaraki, Rick Morin, Terry Norton, Dave Owens, Ed Pirog, Peter Pritchard, Tom Radzio, John Roe, Willem Roosenberg, Dave Rostal, Allen Salzberg, Chuck Schaffer, Rick Schaffer, John Seyjagat, Kevin Shoemaker, Rich Siegel, Scott Smith, Meryem Tekin, Tony Tucker, Oguz Türkozan, Peter Paul van Dijk, Lily Venizelos, Dick Vogt, Marguerite Whilden, Thane Wibbels, Roger Wood, and Bob Zappalorti. And there will be a few surprises yet to come. The Meeting is a small part of the larger Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation which runs from February 2-8, also at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Each year the International Sea Turtle Society assembles a variety of chelonian researchers, rehabbers, and a variety of other individuals from around the world in an amazing Symposium. You are encouraged to make your hotel reservations early and can do so here -https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do? mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=9575293. The special group sleeping room rate is $155 per night for one, two, three, or four people sharing. Those who make their reservation via this link will receive free internet access in their guestroom (normally a $12.95 charge per day). Reserving through this link also helps support the meeting as we are committed to fill a certain number of guest rooms at the hotel in order to receive free meeting space. Online registration is now online [http://iconferences.seaturtle.org/] but here is a very brief glimpse of what is in store for you at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation - · Sea Turtles 101 and Sea Turtle Success Stories (Both of these meetings will be live webcast into Baltimore City Public Schools.) · Dive Behavior Workshop, Sea Turtle Medicine Workshop, Statistics and Data Analyses Workshop Anatomy, Physiology and Health Meeting, In-Water Biology Meeting, Conservation, Management and Policy Meeting, Fisheries and Threats Meeting, Nesting Biology Meeting, Social, Economic and Cultural Studies Meeting, and Population Biology and Monitoring Meeting · Opening Social on Monday evening, 04 February · Adventures from the Field on Tuesday evening, 05 February - this is a very informal gathering; participants are encouraged to share their experiences from the field · Live Auction on Thursday evening, 07 February · Farewell Banquet on Friday evening, 08 February, come dine, dance and spend some time with friends, new and old, until we meet again in 2014! Email Chuck Shaffer at [email protected] for any additional information.
