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25.01.2022 How do turtles synchronise hatching ? Thyroid hormones.... Maybe, Corticosteroids..... ... Maybe.... Jess McGlashan presenting at the Australian Society of Herpetologists conference in Victoria this week

24.01.2022 Our PhD Student, Jessica Dormer, captured this cat with what looks to be a pigeon in its mouth. This is from one of her permanent field cameras.

24.01.2022 WildLab have been involved with the new book Carnivores of Australia. Dr Ricky Spencer is a co-author of chapter 7 When is a Dingo not a Dingo? You can purchase it here... http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6708.htm

24.01.2022 Katie Howard, our newest PhD student, speaking at #ASH15 on how broadscale fox baiting does F-all to reduce turtle nest predation rates

23.01.2022 WldLab s new website http://rspencer9.wix.com/wildlab

20.01.2022 WildLab had a visitor today. #everydaywonders #everydayhazards

19.01.2022 App available soon

18.01.2022 Dr Ricky Spencer, the head of @WildLabUWS will be speaking with @ashleyfwalsh on 891 ABC Adelaide this Sunday about Murray-Darling turtles and Citizen Science Projects. 10.15am Adelaide time (10.45am EST). Turtle Survey and Analysis Tools

17.01.2022 Post-doc opportunity. Applications close this week http://m.seek.com.au/job/27587274

15.01.2022 We will be releasing 2000 hatchling turtles to evaluate head starting as a management tool to mitigate fox predation on Murray River turtles. We are collaborating with a turtle farmer in SA. Our eggs will be hatching in 2 weeks. The photos here show the turtle ponds and eggs incubating. Notice what looks like pebbles on the water surface. These are actually short neck turtle heads... Amazing numbers.

15.01.2022 WildLab Students leading research into the nesting preferences of an endangered freshwater turtles. https://www.facebook.com/turtle.sat/posts/438352309662443?notif_t=like .Photo of the new WildLab Post-doc, James Van Dyke. His profile will be up on http://rspencer9.wix.com/wildlab this week.

15.01.2022 The Turtle Shuffle

15.01.2022 An article from Ricky Spencer about a possible extinction of a turtle in eastern Australia https://theconversation.com/turtle-extinction-event-bodes-i

14.01.2022 There will be a big launch of WomSAT next month. A Citizen Science tool to map wombat mortality and mange- pigging backing on the success of TurtleSAT. Today, I also created CatSAT. There are two aspects to CatSAT and both relate to assessing the impact and behaviour of domestic cats. The CatPrez survey, allows people to easily record those little lizard, bird or mammal (anything really) presentsthat fluffy brings home. They can upload a photo direct from their phone.... The CatSpy survey is primarily focused on people taking photos of cats in their yard or neighbourhood. This will allow us to identify them and look at their home range or activity patterns. When people register, they can upload a photo of their own cats so that we can relate any of their activity back to their central base. Unlike TURTLESAT, we are not going to have a public map. The surveys will use mobile apps and GPS technology, but cats are a sensitive issue and we dont want people or homes or the cats identified on a map. The data will lend itself to powerful GIS modelling and this (eg. Kernel density hotspot maps) is how we will provide feedback. They are a great visual communication tool. TurtleSAT had over 1700 sightings in its first field season. We are trawling through that day now. We will be looking for volunteers for CatSAT in the near future if anyone is interested.

14.01.2022 Unfortunately Blacky had to be relocated. Apparently, some people dont like snakes!!!!

13.01.2022 Today we met with Lee Joachim from the Yorta Yorta Nation. WildLab is providing several scholarships each year to motivated year 10 and 11 indigenous students to conduct a research project with us. The scholarships are multi- faceted though. The students will attend UWS for 1-2 weeks each year to experience University life and integrate into some of our programs. This will hopefully provide the encouragement for them to progress to tertiary education and most importantly, est...ablish a support network @uws to help reduce drop out rates. The Yorta Yorta nation are traditional owners of a large stretch of the Murray Goulburn and this program is a small step to develop an important partnership. http://www.yynac.com.au

13.01.2022 Turtles need your help. WildLab and TurtleSAT in the media ... https://www.dropbox.com/s/hjsdaiks1i3185b/338782827.pdf?dl=0 See more

11.01.2022 A new paper providing empirical evidence supporting the Charnov-Bull model for the evolution/maintenance of TSD in a turtle. Adaptation to living in cold environments https://onedrive.live.com/redir

11.01.2022 Gut contents of a feral pig

10.01.2022 In the coming weeks, we will be advertising an industry PhD stipend/project to work on Emu sustainability in urban areas. Stay tuned

09.01.2022 WildLab are highlighting the turtle crisis occurring in Australia. We have partnered up 9 partners from a diverse group of government agencies, indigenous groups and philanthropic foundations to establish an ARC Linkage Grant to halt the declines. It is Turtle Month and the media are helping us educate the public about this crisis. Read more here... http://www.abc.net.au//turtles-crisis-in-murray-da/5884438

08.01.2022 15 Tips to finish your PhD http://www.theguardian.com//finishing-phd-thesis-top-tips-

08.01.2022 How wild cats became domestic? Are similar genes involved in selecting for true feral cats? Jessica Dormer a PhD student in the lab is investigating breed selection by profiling stray cats in urban fringes, as well as deep in woodland forests and the desert http://www.iflscience.com//genome-comparison-shows-how-wil

08.01.2022 Ecological Modelling Course. 10 weeks, all online

07.01.2022 May I introduce Dr Jessica Dormer Congratulations Jess

07.01.2022 Congratulations to Kristen Petrov (@murraymuddler) for being awarded a UWS summer scholarship. Kristen will be finishing off exciting work on Murray River turtle nest site selection and predation, evaluating fox management strategies and kicking off her honours project on Murray River Food web dynamics http://rspencer9.wix.com/wildlab#!kristen-petrov/c1hqh

06.01.2022 Albino Murray River Turtle

05.01.2022 A Post doc position is available in WildLab. http://www.seek.com.au/job/27587274

04.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/nick.clema/posts/10153328648657589

04.01.2022 Last week several of the lab spent time digging into the over 1000 quail eggs as one several indices of turtle nest predation. We are working in partnership with the Goulburn -Broken and North Central CMAs to evaluate the effectiveness of fox baiting in reducing nest predation rates, which are >95% annually. We also released 11 broad shell hatchlings, making it 52 in total over the last 12 months. These 52 are pretty special to us. We cut the eggs out of their mothers that killed by cars and trucks on highways. We have kept 4 at our glasshouse facilities, which will be used to highlight the turtle crisis that is occurring in Australia at present

03.01.2022 Kristen Petrov from the lab captured her first turtles this week. Kristen will be conducting food web analysis to determine the role of turtles in a range of habitats. Lets face it, rivers and wetlands are all about fish and water birds, however turtles rival carp in their biomass in the rivers and probably are key to nutrient recycling. They are likely to be the taxa that turn big dead things into little dead things. Essentially those dead animals that may take days or ...weeks to break down, are devoured in hours with turtles around. Read more about Kristen and her project here http://rspencer9.wix.com/wildlab#!kristen-petrov/c1hqh

02.01.2022 A review of the mass deaths of the Bellinger River Turtle last week http://bellingerturtles.blogspot.com.au//is-bellinger-cris

02.01.2022 Images of the new CatSAT app. The app includes geolocation (no need to guess where you are) and the ability to upload photos of cats in your neighbourhood and any prey that your cat brings home