Turtle Trading Post

6:30 - 7:30pm

Wednesday 26th March

Where: TBD

Who: The Turtle Trading post is open to all students and projects from low-income countries (or countries with high inflation rates), and folks in areas that are or have experienced environmental or humanitarian hardship (e.g., hurricanes/typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, war).

Why: The goal of the Turtle Trading Post is so students and projects meeting the criteria above can benefit from surplus equipment and supplies from other projects. It is a raffle that is part swap-meet, and part lottery.

It does not cost students or others anything to participate or benefit from this and it will mean a second life for field and lab equipment no longer in use! But we do rely on the greater sea turtle community to donate new or old (but functioning) equipment so that other projects may give second life to your gear.

How to donate: Please bring any items you wish to donate to the meeting. We will establish a drop-off table near the auction drop-off at the symposium. All donations must be submitted no later than 5pm the day BEFORE the event (Tuesday 25th March).

For each donation (or lot), please fill out the donation form downloadable in Word or PDF format (copies will also be available at the registration desk).

Be sure to pack any donations with you before traveling to Ghana. Please make sure that all donated items are clean and still operational/functional and have all the necessary parts, chargers, etc.. Donation ideas include (but aren’t limited to):

  • Unused/sterile (still in package) biopsy punches

  • GPS handhelds (still functioning)

  • Glass or plastic sample vials

  • Field notebooks (unused)

  • Tape measures

  • Old calipers

  • Rehabilitation equipment (no medicines/drugs, please)

  • Field gear (new: hats, rain gear/ponchos, buffs, sun shirts, etc.)

  • Sunscreen/insect repellant

  • Educational and outreach materials (generic and non-project specific)

  • New or barely used field backpacks

  • New or barely used headlamps (with red lights)

  • Functioning cameras (with chargers, SD cards)

  • Rite-in-Rain paper

  • Data loggers

  • New water bottles

  • Multi-tools

If you have big ticket items (e.g. drones, satellite/radio/acoustic tags or tracking equipment) languishing in your lab, even better! Please remember that CLS/Argos satellite time may prohibit some groups from satellite tracking, so consider sponsoring tag IDs, too!

How it works: On the day of the event (6:30 -7:30 pm, Wednesday 26th March), tables displaying the donated items will be set up and we will disburse tickets (up to 10 per participant) for participants to place on items of interest. Each ticket will have two parts, one to fill in with your name and organization/institution, and a matching ticket to keep. All tickets must be placed with an item prior to the event in order to be considered. You may place one or more tickets per item.

During the event, we will draw one ticket per item donated and the ticket owner will receive the item once the matching ticket is provided to the organizers.

All item recipients are responsible for the item once received.

Questions: Contact Kate Mansfield

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