• About the Author

• Writing Portfolio

≈ Science Writing

≈ Academic & Technical

≈ Nature's Laboratory

• Photography Portfolio

• E-mail

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. Presumed Extinct: Lost Species of the Bay Area. Bay Nature. 7(4): October-December pp 42-46.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. Raising the Dead: Bringing Ghosts to Life. Bay Nature. 7(4): October-December (online).

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. Field Guide to the Lost Species of the San Francisco Bay Area. Bay Nature. 7(4): October-December (online).

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. Gone With the Wind: How Plants Get Around. Bay Nature. 7(3): July-September p 52.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. Evolution's Bumper Sticker War Against Intelligent Design. Inkling Magazine. April 5.
  (which inspired the Intelligent Design Your Own Darwin Fish Contest)

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. Tentacled Tree Hugger Disarms Seventh Graders. Inkling Magazine. March 14.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. "That Time" in Evolutionary History. Inkling Magazine. January 31.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2007. Baby's Blues Call Cheatin' Moms. Inkling Magazine. January 24.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2006. Mammoth Rocks - Berkeley Researchers Find Evidence of Ancient Scratching Posts on the Sonoma Coast. Berkeley Science Review. 6(1): pp 14-15.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2006. Left to Burn: The Recollection of a Scientific Collection. Bay Nature. 6(2): April-June.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2005. Taking Refuge: The Endemic Nature of the Antioch Dunes. Bay Nature. 5(1): January - March pp 8-11.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2004. Coyote Ugly. www.faultline.org. May 28th.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2004. The Great Danes. Earth Island Journal. 19(1): Spring. pp 35-38.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2004. Signs of the Season: Finding the Fungi. Bay Nature. 4(1): January - March. pp 23-24.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2004. Experience the Bay. Bay Nature. 3(4): October - December. pp 31[Insert page: 15].

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2003. In Pursuit of the Dark-eyed Junco. www.faultline.org. April 30th.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2003. Hidden Treasures of the Harbor. Bay Nature. 3(2): April - June. pp 10-11, 32.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2003. Travels with Vinnie. www.faultline.org. February 6th.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2002. Closer Look: Impermanent Pools. California Wild. 55(2): Spring. pp 44-45.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2002. Pilgrimage to Indian Creek. Outdoor California. 63(2): March-April. pp 24-28.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2001. The Fundamental Biophysics of Nucleotides in a Restricted DNA Microarray Environment - NPACI & SDSC Online.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2001. Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas). Jaguarundi. pp 12-13.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2001. Honey Badger (Melivora capensis). Jaguarundi. pp 8-9, 18.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2001. Regional Overview: West Africa. Jaguarundi. pp 4-5.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P., R. Bruce Bury, Laura C. Patterson, and Glen M. Lubcke. 2006. Trachemys scripta elegans (Red-eared Slider). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 37(4): pp 459-460.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P., Christopher H. Thayer, and Dana E. Terry. 2006. Actinemys marmorata (Pacific Pond Turtle). Nest Architecture/Predation. Herpetological Review 37(2): pp 213-215.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P. and Christopher H. Thayer. 2006. Anniella pulchra pulchra (Silvery Legless Lizard). Habitat. Herpetological Review 37(2): pp 217-218.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P. and Ertan Taskavak. 2006. The Tortoise and the Tulip - Testudo graeca ibera and Osman Hamdi's "The Tortoise Trainer". Bibliotheca Herpetologica. 6(2): pp 11-15.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P. 2006. The Contemporary Value of Historical Herpetological Illustrations. Bibliotheca Herpetologica. 6(1):pp 6-16.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P. 2005. Marmorata: The Famed Mud Turtle of the San Francisco Market. California History. 82(4): pp 26-42. [Citation Note]

• Bettelheim, Matthew P., Dana E. Terry, and Julia Dunaeva. 2005. A Selective Translation of Alexander Strauch’s “Chenological Studies,” “Global Distribution,” and “Comments” Specific to the Western Pond Turtle (Clemmys marmorata), Including a Bibliography of his Known Herpetological Works. Bibliotheca Herpetologica. 5(2): pp 10-27.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P. 2005. The California Legless Lizard (Anniella pulchra) and the Baja California Legless Lizard (Anniella geronimensis)... A Natural History of the Species, Including a Translation of J.G. Fischer's 1885 Description of Anniella nigra from the Original German (by Dana E. Terry). Longwing Press/Turtlenest in the Park. 26 pp.

• Bettelheim, Matthew P. 2004. The Western Pond Turtle, Clemmys marmorata... A Natural History of the Species. Longwing Press/Turtlenest in the Park. 27 pp.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2002. A Review of the History, Natural History, and Status of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in California - A Literature Review. The Department of Fish and Game - Central Valley Bay-Delta Branch. 18 pp.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2001. An Evaluation of Big Chico Creek, Lindo Channel, and Mud Creek as Salmonid Nonnatal Rearing Habitats - A Literature Review. The Department of Fish and Game - Bay-Delta and Special Water Projects Division. 17 pp.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2001. Temperature and Flow Regulation in the Sacramento River and its Effect on the Sacramento Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus grandis) - A Literature Review. The Department of Fish and Game - Bay-Delta and Special Water Projects Division. 9 pp.

• Bettelheim, Matthew. 2001. A Guide to the Dark-Eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis: history, identification, nest-searching and habitat. Trevor Price Lab, U.C. San Diego. Unpublished. 34 pp.

• Nature's Laboratory - Archived Monthly Columns - November 2001 through January 2004

• Nature's Laboratory - Online Monthly Columns - October 2003 through February 2005

»» The correct pagination of this paper, pages 26-42, superecedes the pagination as it appeared in the draft copy distributed at The Wildlife Society's 2005 "Western Pond Turtle Workshop: Ecology and Conservation." The correct citation of this article is as it appears herein:

Bettelheim, Matthew P. 2005. Marmorata: The Famed Mud Turtle of the San Francisco Market. California History. 82(4): pp 26-42.

back...