Author Archive for Joanne Nicholson
Joanne is NMLC's Executive Assistant and Outreach Coordinator.
National Marine Life Center is seeking four summer interns to help with education!
The National Marine Life Center is seeking four summer interns to help with education. Applications including cover letter, resume and one letter of reference are due March 31, 2010 at 5pm. Applications can be emailed, faxed or dropped off.
Click here for pdf internship announcement
We had two wonderful interns for the summer of 2009. Our two [...]
Eight new Red Bellied Cooters Arrive!
Eight 1 1/2 week old Northern Red Bellied Cooters (Pseudemys rubiventris) arrived at NMLC today around 2pm. Volunteer Linda Jackson and I drove to the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species offices in Westborough and picked up 8 cooters for our facility and 20 cooters that will be disbursed among other groups in Cape Cod, [...]
Last Red Bellied Cooter of the 2008-2009 Head start class released!
It was an overcast day as the three of us ascended upon Great Quitticas Pond on the Lakeville/Middleboro line to release the last of the Red Bellied Cooters from the head start class 2008-2009. There were three people and a dog there fishing and enjoying the area. Lori and Tim Benson have taken care of [...]
National Marine Life Center Participates in Coastsweep 2009
On Saturday September 19, 2009 a group of 17 volunteers set out to the Cape Cod Canal to clean the coastline between the Train Bridge and Bourne Bridge on the Buzzards Bay side. After 2 and 1/2 hours we came back with 149 lbs of trash and cover 1.25 miles of rocks and coastline. Of [...]
5 Endangered Northern Red Bellied Cooters Released
The National Marine Life Center released five endangered Northern Red Bellied Cooters today at Great Quittacas Pond in Middleborough, MA. These five turtles were ones that had gone through the headstart program run by the state, and unfortunately were not big enough to be released with the rest of the headstart turtles on June 1st, [...]
Diamondback Terrapin Release!!
The National Marine Life Center released four headstart Diamondback Terrapins at Turtle Point, Lieutenant Island, Wellfleet, MA. The tiny turtles weighed only 5.5 grams when they were brought to NMLC last October, after having hatched too late in the season to survive the winter in the wild. Now an average of 56 grams – a [...]
Diamondback Terrapin Release! June 25, 2009
Please join us in releasing our four headstart Diamondback Terrapins June 25, 2009 5pm, Lieutenant Island, Welfleet. We will meet at the one lane bridge and then continue as a group to turtle point for the release as a group.
Please join us in releasing:
Directions:
Take Route 6 to just beyond the 98 mile marker, take a [...]
Education over April Vacation!
Thank you to all who participated in the Cape Cod Jr. Tech workshop of Turtle TLC/Seal SOS! We hope all the participants had fun while learning. Thank you to all the staff and volunteers that helped make the three day workshop run smoothly!
No live animals were used during this program only case studies and models.
