Tim's Fertile Turtles

Scientists seek to answer questions that nobody knows the answer to. Often, science classrooms solely focus on the information scientists have previously obtained at the expense of teaching students how to use the scientific process. My goal is to introduce students to this process by sharing with them the challenges and rewards of my research. I hope these activities allow students to see science in a new way. Pictured here are some hatchling Red Eared Sliders produced by fertile turtles!.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

New Website

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Dear followers of Tim's Fertile Turtles.  I have a new website and blog where future postings will go.  Please visit my new website at h...
Friday, November 9, 2012

TREE students talk about their research!

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The 2012 TREE program students give a brief explanation of their summer research. Here from all three teams:
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Anole eating anole!

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Today we had another first for the Lizard Project.  While on island H capturing lizards, we found a green anole eating a brown anole.  While...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

We found eggs!

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Earlier this week I wrote a post about a nest-site choice study that Aaron and Dan had done in the lab.  However, anole nests are notoriousl...

Lots of Lizards, big and small

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We have been catching lizards for four days now, and we have nearly eclipsed the 500 lizard mark!!!   That is a ton of liza...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Day 1 & 2: LOTS OF LIZARDS

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Dan Warner, David Delaney and I started catching lizards on our islands yesterday.  On Day 1 we caught 151 lizards, which is a new recor...

Partnering with Youngzine again!

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Youngzine is a news website targeted towards young people, and they are highlighting our science research again!  Check out the following ar...

Lizard Team uses labs and field work

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  When asked about where a scientist works, most people would probably think of the laboratory.   And while it is true many scie...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Lizard Team is back at it!!!

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Hi Everyone, This summer we had a record setting Turtle season and I have been very busy following up with this summer's experiments...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Turtle Camp Research and Education in Ecology (TREE) Program starts!

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For two weeks each year, 8 high school students join the graduate and undergraduate students doing research at turtle camp.   Fo...

25th Year Anniversary

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For 25 years, Fred Janzen and his collaborators and students have intensely studied a population of painted turtles on the Mississippi Riv...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Turtle Life Part 5: Spring Emergence

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A baby turtle on its journey to water. Black is all you ever have seen. You and your sisters are packed into your subterranean nest...

Turtle Life Part 4: Winter Months

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You are a COLD baby turtle! You and your sisters have hatched in your nest, and now position yourselves with your tail down and your ...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Turtle Life Part 3: Summer Months

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A developing turtle embryo! Its now early July and you have been developing well. Your sexual structures have not yet developed and w...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Turtle Life Part 2: Early June

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Now it is early June.  Your nest (luckily) was not sniffed out by a hungry predator, and you remain safely buried in the soil.  At this poin...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Turtle Life: Part 1 The first year of life for a turtle

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Use your imagination for a moment, and put yourself in the shoes (or shell!) of a painted turtle during the first year of life. ...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Turtle Nesting 101

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Turtles are oviparous which means that they lay eggs.   Many other animals lay eggs as well, like birds, insects, amphibians, fi...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Turtle Camp 2012! The 25th Year!

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What is Turtle Camp? 25 years ago, a PhD student from the University of Chicago was looking for a place to find Painted Turtle eggs fo...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Turtle Camp Begins!

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On Monday we arrived at our Turtle Research site in Thomson, IL.  We will spend the next 6 weeks here doing science research, working most...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Sex-determination explained

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Ted ED partnered with Aaron Reedy (of the Lizard Project) to make this great video about the diversity of sex-determining mechanisms. ...
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Tim Mitchell
Ames, Iowa, United States
I am a scientist at Iowa State University in the field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I work on the reproductive biology of Painted Turtles. I am working on my PhD under the guidance of Fred Janzen. I also work with Mr. Gary Morris, a science teacher at Meredith Middle School in Des Moines, IA. I am supported by an NSF-GK12 Fellowship through SYMBI at Iowa State. If you have any questions about my research or my experience in the program, email me: timmitch@iastate.edu
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