Every other year I teach a sea turtles course at UNCG. In recent years, Wendy has been doing a necropsy for the students along with other activities like quizzing them on turtle species, which they have studied prior to the field trip to the coast. Once we were in a lab, not outdoors as in the picture below, when one of the students became ill as Wendy started cutting into the thawed turtle. Initially, the student started weaving but then went down like a giant redwood tree being felled. Nearby formaldehyde-preserved specimens of marine mammal parts in glass containers tumbled to the concrete floor and shattered. Wendy was calm, cool, and collected as we tried to revive the prone student and calm the standing ones. She is always fun as well as professional and I was glad that she handled herself and the group with such composure that day. I look forward to continuing to work with her at the aquarium. Good luck with your new job Wendy!
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