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UNL research identifies drought's effects on painted turtles
- Julie Anderson Omaha World-Herald
- Jul 4, 2023
- Jul 4, 2023
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Painted turtles are relatively common in the eastern United States and the northern Midwest and Great Plains.
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Julie Anderson Omaha World-Herald
Data collected by 50-some University of Nebraska-Lincoln undergraduate students at a western Nebraska pond over a dozen years suggests possible challenges — or at least changes — for turtles if drought becomes more common, as predicted for the Great Plains with climate change.
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Nebraska students Ellen Dolph (from left), Tristan Powell and Charrissa Neil adjust the bait for a hoop net used to capture painted turtles.
LARKIN POWELL, UNL
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Will Hernandez, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior in environmental science, reels in a PVC-framed turtle trap.
LARKIN POWELL, UNL
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The life and work of Lincoln's Joel Sartore
A veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) at the Rolling Hills Zoo.
Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is seen with one of his banner prints of a spotted owl displayed in Morrill Hall on the UNL Campus in 2004.
Journal Star file photo
A clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) at the Houston Zoo. This species is listed as federally endangered. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
A Blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates azureus) at Reptile Gardens. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore is a longtime National Geographic photographer who lives in Lincoln.
Courtesy photo
Pygmy marmoset at Lincoln Children's Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore photographed these four coyote puppies at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab in Louisville. The image, part of Sartore's Photo Ark series, was one of many by several National Geographic photographers that was projected upon the walls of St. Peter's Basilica Dec. 8, 2015. The project, "Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home," was designed to highlight the plights of animals and bring attention to the Paris climate talks.
Fiat Lux event photo by David Doubilet / projected image by Joel Sartore
A critically endangered red wolf (Canis rufus gregoryi) at the Great Plains Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
The Florida panther (puma concolor coryi) is endangered.
Courtesy Joel Sartore
A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) named Bensar at the George M. Sutton Avian Research Center. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore of Lincoln pauses in the middle of a 12-hour workday in 2013 as he worked on the hardwood floor of the Lewis-Syford House, which he and his family were renovating. Built in 1878, the French Second Empire-style house on the 700 block of North 16th Street was being prepared for his eldest son, Cole, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
FRANCIS GARDLER/Journal Star file photo
A female African elephant (Loxodonta africana) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
These dog images are on soundproofing panels in the Pieloch center’s kennel areas in Lincoln's Capital Humane Society. A few years ago Joel Sartore photographed the dogs, which were in the Park Boulevard facility’s adoption program.
Shane & Sunny Photography
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at Zoo Atlanta. This endangered species is native to China. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Photographer Joel Sartore is one of the three artists whose images appear on new Union Bank & Trust debit cards. This image captured by Sartore is of a curl-crested aracari, part of the toucan family.
Courtesy photo
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) at the Omaha Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
This caricature of Joel Sartore was done by Jim Horan, who has drawn all but two of the Omaha Press Club’s 136 Faces on the Barroom Floor.
Courtesy image
Breast cancer survivor Kathy Sartore and husband Joel Sartore, National Geographic photographer, in 2012 stand in front of a gray wolf image he photographed for National Geographic.
MARK SCHWANIGER/Journal Star file photo
Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore (right), a National Geographic photographer, and Charles DeVries of SignCo install a banner in between the pillars of Morrill Hall where an exhibit of Sartore's images was displayed in 2004.
Journal Star file photo
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) from the Sierra Chincua mountain range, Mexico. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore and Anne Thompson of NBC Nightly News prepare to photograph a West African dwarf crocodile at the Lincoln Children's Zoo in 2012. Sartore was taking images of the 6,000 species in U.S. zoos. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com
The federally endangered blowout penstemon (Penstemon haydenii), raised by Jim Stubbendieck, who helped bring the plant back from the brink of extinction.
Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore poses with his wife Kathy and three kids, (from left) Spencer, Ellen and Cole and dog, Muldoon, at their home in Lincoln, Jan. 25, 2009.
LJS file photo
Grey gibbons (Hylobates muelleri muelleri) at the Miller Park Zoo. This species is listed as endangered. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore cleans the rain gutter over his front door in late June 2007 after hanging a large American flag.
ERIC GREGORY/Journal Star file photo
The Salt Creek tiger beetle (Cicindela nevadica lincolniana) in a lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore (top) gets help from Charles DeVries of SignCO with installing one of two large banners in between the pillars of Morrill Hall to promote an exhibit of Sartore's photography and to raise funds and memberships for the museum on the UNL Campus in 2004.
Journal Star file photo
A Linne's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore, Lincoln resident and National Geographic photographer, made a presentation on endangered species at Lincoln East in 1999.
TED KIRK/Journal Star file photo
Minnows over the Powder River in Wyoming, an ecosystem threatened by coal bed methane development.
Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore shares with a 2012 Lincoln audience his photography from travels around the world and how his wife’s breast cancer has impacted him and his family.
MARK SCHWANIGER/Journal Star file photo
Reimann's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina reimanni). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore views three photo banners of a bison and calf, a puffy prairie dog and tallgrass prairie with walking sticks that were to be displayed in Sartore's exhibit in Morrill Hall in 2004.
Journal Star file photo
Humboldt penguins off the Chilean coast.
Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com
A family portrait of (from left) Cole, Joel, Kathy and Spencer Sartore framed in the second-story window of the Lewis-Syford House, which the family was renovating in 2013.
FRANCIS GARDLER/Journal Star file photo
A captive, 5-month-old mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Ivory-billed woodpecker, University of Nebraska State Museum.
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore's "Photo Ark: A World Worth Saving" is a 60-page softcover book featuring Sartore's photos of animals.
Sartore founded The Photo Ark, his multiyear documentary project to save species and habitat, which has included having his photos projected on New York City skyscrapers. All of us can share in Sartore's passion through the products he's made available. They include his book "Photo Ark: A World Worth Saving" ($9.95) -- signed copies are available through the website -- as well as daily and wall calendars ($14.95 each).
Courtesy photo
Small as it is, few species are as controversial as the prairie dog. Joel Sartore photographed this one in Montana in 1995. Photo by Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com
Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com
Hasari, a 3-year-old cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), at White Oak Conservation Center. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
National Geographic photographer and Nebraska native Joel Sartore (right) and Joel Neilson stand on ladders in 2004 to make a fit for a large photo banner of a bison and calf that was featured in Sartore's exhibit at Morrill Hall.
Journal Star file photo
An endangered Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
A portrait of a turkey vulture. (Courtesy Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com
Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) at the Great Plains Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
A male okapi (Okapia johnstoni), at White Oak Conservation Center. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
A spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
A male eastern bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) at the Great Plains Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) named Usi from the Omaha Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
A young female snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) at Raptor Recovery Nebraska. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore/www.joelsartore.com
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Painted turtles are relatively common in the eastern United States and the northern Midwest and Great Plains.
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Nebraska students Ellen Dolph (from left), Tristan Powell and Charrissa Neil adjust the bait for a hoop net used to capture painted turtles.
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Will Hernandez, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior in environmental science, reels in a PVC-framed turtle trap.
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