Turtles and Road Ecology
| Date: | May 21st, 2012 |
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| Time: | 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Our regular meeting location |
Why did the turtle cross the road? To get to the other side if it’s lucky! Getting across our busy roadways has become a major challenge for these creatures. At our May meeting, Kari Gunson, a road ecologist and principal for Eco-Kare International, will discuss the ongoing efforts to reduce turtle mortality along roadways. She will also share results of her current research in measuring whether turtle signage is an effective tool to help turtles cross roads safely.
Eco-Kare International is a company initiated in Ontario in 2009, in response to a need to combine road ecology with transportation projects. Kari has also helped build the Ontario Road Ecology Group, and has been instrumental in designing, and monitoring several road mitigation projects such as eco-passages for turtles on the Long Point Causeway.
Kari received a B.Sc. in Zoology and Ecology from the University of Calgary, an M.Sc. in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and another M.Sc. in Geospatial Technologies from the State University of New York, in Syracuse, New York. In the past 12 years she has worked with several faunal species including frogs in Eastern North America, and grizzly bears in Montana and Alberta.
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