Otten’s research featured on Michigan news

Wildlife biologist and Cornell College Assistant Professor of Biology Joshua Otten was recently featured in a news story on Michigan’s Fox 17, “Kalamazoo River turtles find their way home after 2010 oil spill.”

Otten has completed extensive research studying the survival rates and long-term effects of turtles rehabilitated after that oil spill. 

In the article, he tells Fox 17, “We caught a large number of those turtles that we had to translocate to new locations, and seeing that their growth rates were continuing as normal showed that those individuals that had gone through that rehabilitation process, those individuals that had been relocated, were surviving well and had been able to find their way back home.”

Otten started working at Cornell in the fall of 2023 and continues his long-term turtle research, which now includes Cornell students. He earned his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Toledo.