Bethany Nordstrom

PhD student @BiolSci_UWA. Studying the Western Swamp Turtle.

[Bethany Nordstrom @bethnor514]

@jess_hadlow @1jonevans @RowanLym Yay! Congrats Jess :)

[School of Biological Sciences, UWA @BiolSci_UWA]

Hey everyone! My name is Jess and this is the November #sbstwittertakeover and #PhDdayinthelife. I'm a final year PhD candidate working in the Centre for Evolutionary Biology - I study sperm and fertilisation in marine invertebrates!🦪Keep an eye out for my tweets today!

[Dr Eric Nordberg 🦎🌳 @ericjnordberg]

PhD Domestic Scholarship based at @ERS_UNE available for a project on Christmas Island Giant Gecko! Contact me or @emery_jp for details https://t.co/4f8100THgF

[School of Biological Sciences, UWA @BiolSci_UWA]

These animals are racing towards extinction. A new home might be their last chance https://t.co/PUg98ClDIM

[Donald McKnight @donaldmcknight2]

New #paper highlighting the need for more work and conservation efforts on Australia's freshwater #turtles. Great job leading this @deborah_bower
https://t.co/D3EL9IHw7m

[Functional Ecology @FunEcology]

🎧Podcast coming soon🎧

🐢We chat with @NickiJMitch about assisted colonisation and identifying a ‘just right’ site for the Western Swamp Turtle🧳 @bethnor514

⏰Episode out 17.08.23

📙https://t.co/F3CUDtbJix

[Bethany Nordstrom @bethnor514]

@MalindiGammon @BiolSci_UWA @NatCapProject Congrats Malindi!

[Nicki Mitchell @NickiJMitch]

We all love releasing turtles, but how about dealing with a billion data points as well? Siobhan Paget nailed it, and great to see her paper out today that changed where we are trialling assisted colonisation @BiolSci_UWA @Science_DBCA @Biodivcouncil @climatecouncil

[Tash Harrison @tash_harro]

Hot off the press! Perverse outcomes from fencing fauna. We find that a population of havened woylies show weakened anti-predator responses after 10 years isolated from predators. Read more below🧵
https://t.co/cTPMIl6NQS

[Bethany Nordstrom @bethnor514]

@defneasahin Wahoo!! Congrats :)

[Bethany Nordstrom @bethnor514]

@fishlogeography Looks great!! The colour suits you :)

[Taal Levi @taaltree]

We've been working on this paper out today (and open access) for over 7 years, so bear with me while I tell you the story of how we discovered that wolves kill and eat sea otters (Panels A-D) and what this means for wolves, otters, and deer. /1

https://t.co/mGbOeNtNVv

[WWF_Australia @WWF_Australia]

Our conservationists were recently out in-the-field with partners in a secret location in Western Australia to translocate 44 critically endangered western swamp tortoise, in the hopes of helping this reptile survive the impacts of climate change.

#RegenerateAustralia

[WWF_Australia @WWF_Australia]

Our conservationists were recently out in-the-field with partners in a secret location in Western Australia to translocate 44 critically endangered western swamp tortoise, in the hopes of helping this reptile survive the impacts of climate change.

#RegenerateAustralia

[WWF_Australia @WWF_Australia]

Did you know there are as few as 80 adult western swamp tortoise remaining in the wild?

44 captive-bred swamp turtles were translocated and released into a secret location.

We hope this helps the Critically Endangered species survive the impacts of climate changeDid you know there are as few as 80 adult western swamp tortoise remaining in the wild?

44 captive-bred swamp turtles were translocated and released into a secret location.

We hope this helps the Critically Endangered species survive the impacts of climate changeDid you know there are as few as 80 adult western swamp tortoise remaining in the wild?

44 captive-bred swamp turtles were translocated and released into a secret location.

We hope this helps the Critically Endangered species survive the impacts of climate changeDid you know there are as few as 80 adult western swamp tortoise remaining in the wild?

44 captive-bred swamp turtles were translocated and released into a secret location.

We hope this helps the Critically Endangered species survive the impacts of climate change.

[Bethany Nordstrom @bethnor514]

@simonyetmonyet @minimbus Hi Simon! Not all of the turtles are being relocated. The ones released down south were captive bred at Perth Zoo. The ones in Twin Swamps and Ellen Brook NR are staying put 🙂

[Bethany Nordstrom @bethnor514]

As my supervisor @minimbus said: it's not every day the New York Times visits your field site. Definitely a highlight of my PhD so far!
Have a read about some of the conservation efforts underway for the western swamp turtle 🐢:

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The western swamp tortoise’s natural habitat in Australia is becoming increasingly unsuitable as temperatures rise. An experiment to preserve the endangered reptile is the latest debate over how far humans should go to protect nature as the world warms. https://t.co/to21Dtv3kl

[Bethany Nordstrom @bethnor514]

@Harryymoore Alan the logistics king!

[Nicki Mitchell @NickiJMitch]

It’s not every day the New York Times visits your field site. Big shout out to all the @BiolSci_UWA grad students - most recently @bethnor514 and Nick Rodriguez - who’s research is underpinning what we do. @uwanews @Science_DBCA @WWF_Australia