In late May, Project Terrapin’s John Wnek and students from the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science in Manahawkin installed a diamondback terrapin hatchery on the grounds of the Long Beach Township Field Station in Holgate. A number of volunteers were then trained for “turtle watch,” and helped out during the species’ nesting and hatching seasons.

As LBT Sustainability Director Angela Andersen noted, the project is just one example “of how the facility plans to collaborate…