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Dr. Thomas Wilson\u2019s Environmental Science Survey Methods class studies turtle research methods Thursday, June 8, on the Tennessee River. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cHi, dude!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t look happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not surprising that Dude\/He doesn\u2019t look happy. He\u2019s being pulled out of a net in the Tennessee River specifically set up to capture him.<\/p>\n

Dude\/He is a turtle.<\/p>\n

On a recent afternoon, several turtles were pulled from nets placed in the river by Dr. Thomas Wilson, UC Foundation professor in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, and graduate student Bri Millican.<\/p>\n

As part of the Environmental Science Survey Methods course, students spent an afternoon in chest-high waders, walking in and out of the river to check nets placed in several locations, then taking any turtles they found back to the riverbank.<\/p>\n

Once there, Wilson held the reptiles in his hands and talked about them\u2014whether they\u2019re male or female and how to tell, explaining their general habits, measuring them and pointing out specific things to check on their shells\u2014before returning them to the river.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea behind this is I try to approach this class from a practitioner standpoint,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI\u2019m just showing them what the various tools and various options are for measuring environmental and biological phenomena at the ecological scale.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of them will go on to graduate school and now have some exposure to these techniques and ideas for implementing on some of their projects, or they may go directly in the workforce\u2014and they will not have to have the methods explained to them because they will be somewhat familiar with them by concept.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s really just teaching them to survey the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

All the turtles found during the class excursion were sliders, the kind often seen sunning themselves on logs and sliding into the water when humans get too close. Most were about the size of a dinner plate or smaller.<\/p>\n

Millican, pursuing a master\u2019s degree in environmental science, noted that, while the turtles could be taken back to a lab at UTC for examination, an analysis in the wild is more practical and safer.<\/p>\n

Senior environmental science major Lauren Hull said she hopes for a career in the U.S. National Parks Service. The Environmental Science Survey Methods class helps provide a foundation for that plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to get some experience in case this is anything I ever work with later in my career, so I have some hands-on experience with this sort of thing,\u201d said Hull, a Ringgold (Georgia) High School graduate.<\/p>\n

Hands-on experience is valuable, Wilson warned the students, but be careful where you put those hands when holding sliders. They\u2019re not snapping turtles\u2014which can take off a finger\u2014but \u201cthey\u2019ll pop you good,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a student who got one too close to his forearm and he got popped,\u201d Wilson recalled. \u201cI think he cried.\u201d<\/p>\n

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