Brad Lock. Assistant Curator of Herpetology at Zoo Atlanta
Scott Davis, Ph D. Executive Director of the Turtle Survival Alliance
Turtle Survival Alliance Conservation Efforts for 2010
Carl J. Franklin. Biological Curator and Collections Manager. UT Arlington Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center
Michael Forstner, Ph D. Professor of Biology Texas State UniversityTexas Turtles: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Keynote speaker. Peter C.H. Pritchard, Ph D. Director of the Chelonian Research Institute

Dr. Pritchard will be presenting the documentary film: Sidenecks of Gondwanaland

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Christopher H. Jones M.S., Esq.
Precedent for Revoking State Commercial Harvest Laws of Freshwater turtles in the United States:   Exploitation and protection of freshwater turtles in Texas public waters and the administrative action that got us there.


Ben Anders Ph D candidate University of Texas at Arlington
Conservation biology of the red-necked turtle

Jim Koukl, Ph D. Associate Professor of Biology University of Texas at Tyler. Radiotelemetry Studies on Resident and Relocated Adult, Hatchling, and Juvenile Three-toed Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina triungius)
John Placyk, Ph D. Assistant Professor of Biology University of Texas at Tyler. Preliminary Molecular Phylogenetics of the North American Box Turtles (Terrapene spp.) using mtDNA