Staff Writer

VENTNOR – It was a pirate’s life for the students Friday, June 10 at the Ventnor Educational Community Complex as students celebrated a school year full of reading accomplishments.

Accelerated Reading Day was transformed into A.R.rrgh Day as school librarian Debbie Brahmi donned her captain’s hat and set her sights on reading excellence alongside first mate and library aide Tetje Linsk.

To help celebrate achieving nearly 45,000 A.R. points, the school welcomed Robin Scott from Ray Scott’s Dock along with Capt. Ed Giacomucci of Margate and John Wnek, supervisor of the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science in Manahawkin.

Together the special guests and mascot “scoots” stressed the importance of being a good steward of the barrier island, which includes preserving the population of the diamondback terrapin turtles.

Students learned the importance of keeping turtles out of the roadways to ensure a healthy turtle population and using a bycatch reduction device on commercial crab traps that prevents turtles from being caught while still allowing crabs to enter the trap.

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Visitors at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge may have noticed a few individuals walking around sometimes with t-shirts emblazoned with the picture of a Diamondback Terrapin on the back, along with lettering on the front that identified them as...   Apparently, Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook are the only two major nesting sites that are known within the Gateway environs for Diamondback Terrapins. They are part of a Terrapin Research program spearheaded by Dr. Russell Burke, an associate professor of Biology at Hofstra University....

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If you're sharing your entire photostream, you can create a Guest Pass that includes photos marked as friends or family (but not your private photos). If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass that includes any of your photos marked as friends, family, or private. If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public.

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UAB biologists are at the forefront of efforts to protect two species: diamondback terrapin turtles native to Dauphin Island, Alabama, and Gulf-native sea

This summer's heat wave has baked the diamondback terrapin eggs buried underneath local beaches to the point the minuscule turtles are

A Mississippi Diamond Back Terrapin in the exhibit "Scales, Shells & Tails: The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama" at Ruffner Mountain in Birmingham, Ala.,

If you've got short little legs like a diamondback terrapin or a horseshoe crab, you can't scale or shimmy up bulkhead or

The diamondback terrapins leave the water in the early summer, searching for places to lay eggs. Many of the turtles cross busy shore roads,