Pacific pond turtle (Clemmys marmorata) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

The Author

Melissa Cameron graduated with distinction from the University of Guelph in June, 2001, with an honours degree in Ecology. She is currently employed by the Department of Zoology at the University of Guelph, and will begin a Master’s Degree under R. Brooks (U. of Guelph) and J. Congdon (U. of Georgia) in May 2002 studying the developmental ecology of the Sonoran mud turtle in southeastern Arizona.

Robert St. Clair: For my Master’s Degree at the University of Victoria under P.T. Gregory, I studied the population ecology of painted turtles in eastern B.C. During this study, I became interested in the physiological costs incurred by northern turtles when they hibernate under the ice. I continued this interest in physiological ecology when I did my doctorate under V.H. Hutchison at the University of Oklahoma. Here I studied differences in growth and metabolic rate when box turtle eggs are incubated at different temperatures. Because this species has environmental sex determination, these differences are also differences between the sexes. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Victoria, I began to study habitat preferences of rubber boas in Creston, B.C. This study continues at a reduced level. In addition to this, I teach at the University of Alberta on a contract basis. I have published on growth and maturation in painted turtles and box turtles, physiological costs of hibernation in painted turtles, patterns of paternity and male parental care in birds, and, with Colleen Cassady St. Clair, patterns of egg loss in crested penguins.

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