SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
2024
Dannemiller NG, Lynch AM, Christiansen EF, Harms CA. 2024. An 18-µm microaggregate blood filter does not cause hemolysis during in vitro whole blood transfusions in sea turtles. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 1(aop):1-8. https://doi.org/10.2460/ajvr.23.12.0269
2023
Dannemiller NG, Souza AR, Sherrod T, Womble M, Ozawa SM, Lewbart GA, Zagzebski KA, Harms CA. 2023. Esophageal stricture and occlusion in a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas). J Herp Med Surg. https://doi.org/10.5818/JHMS-D-23-00020
2022
Heniff AC, Minter LJ, Harms CA, Bibus D, Koutsos EA, Ange-van Heugten KD. 2022. Whole blood fatty acid profiles of cold-stunned juvenile green, Kemp's ridley, and loggerhead sea turtles. J Zool Bot Gard 4:1-11, https://doi.org/10.3390/jzbg4010001.
Jones HJ, Minter LJ, Harms C, Bibus D, Koutsos L, Ange-van Heugten K. 2022. Fatty acid profiles in managed care green and Kemp's ridley turtles over time. J Zool Bot Gard 3:545-554, https://doi.org/10.3390/jzbg3040040.
2021
Gregory TM, Harms CA, Gorges MA, Lewbart GA, Papich MG. 2021. Pharmacokinetics of ketorolac in juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after a single intramuscular injection. J Vet Pharm Ther 44.4: 583-589. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.12952.
Harms CA, Ruterbories LK, Stacy NI, Christiansen EF, Papich MG, Lynch AG, Barratclough A, Serrano ME. 2021. Safety of multiple dose intramuscular ketoprofen treatment in loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta). J Zoo Wildl Med 52: 126-132.
Mones AB, Gruber EJ, Harms CA, Lohmann CMF, Lohmann KJ, Lewbart GA. 2021. Lactic acidosis induced by manual restraint for health evaluation and comparison of two point-of-care analyzers in healthy loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). J Zoo Wildl Med 52:1195-1204.
(work done with Lohmann Lab turtles, but inspired by pilot work at KBSTRRC)
2020
Harms CA, Boylan SM, Stacy BA, Beasley JF, García-Párraga D, Godfrey MH. 2020. Gas embolism and massive blunt force trauma to sea turtles entrained in hopper dredges in North Carolina and South Carolina, USA. Dis Aquat Org 142: 1889-196, doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03542.
Page-Karjian A, Serrano ME, Carzendafner J, Morgan A, Ritchie BW, Gregory CR, McNeill JB, Perrault JR, Christiansen EF, Harms CA. 2020. Molecular assessment of Chelonid Alphaherpesvirus 5 infection in green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles in North Carolina, USA, 2015-2019. Animals 10:1964; doi:10.3390/ani10111964.
2019
Barratclough A, Tuxbury K, Hanel R, Stacy NI, Ruterbories L, Christiansen E, Harms CA. 2019. Baseline plasma thromboelastography in Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles and its use to diagnose coagulopathies in cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley and green sea turtles. J Zoo Wildl Med 50: 62-68. https://doi.org/10.1638/2018-0142.
Harms CA, Wyneken J. 2019. Husbandry and management of sea turtles in human care. In: Divers SJ, Stahl S, Mader DR (eds.). Mader’s Reptile Medicine and Surgery, 3rd ed. Elsevier, St. Louis, Chapter 24, pp. 180-193.
Innis CJ, Finn S, Kennedy A, Burgess E, Norton T, Manire CA, Harms C. 2019. A summary of sea turtles released from rescue and rehabilitation programs in the United States, with observations on re-encounters. Chelonian Cons Biol 18:309. doi:10.2744/CCB-1335.1.
Lively MJ, Westermeyer HD, Harms CA, Christiansen EF. 2019. Ophthalmic lesions in a population of cold-stunned sea turtles (Chelonia mydas, Lepidochelys kempii, Caretta caretta). Vet Ophthal 22: 910-915. DOI: 10.1111/vop.12672.
Westermeyer HD, Cook AG, Harms C, Boylan S. 2019. Phacoemulsification cataract surgery in the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta): surgical technique and outcomes in 10 cases. Vet Ophthalmol 22: 644-650. DOI: 10.1111/vop.12635.
2018
Stacy, NI, Lynch JM, Arendt MD, Avens L, McNeill JB, Cray C, Day RD, Harms CA, Lee AM, Peden-Adams MM, Thorvalson K, Segars AL, Norton TM. 2018. Chronic debilitation in stranded loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the southeastern United States: morphometrics and clinicopathological findings. PLOS One 13(7): e0200355, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200355.
2017
Manire CA, Norton TM, Stacy BA, Innis CJ, Harms CA (eds.). 2017. Sea Turtle Health and Rehabilitation. J. Ross Publishing, Jupiter, Florida, 1010 pp.
Phillips BE, Stoskopf MK, Beasley JF, Harms CA. 2017. Evaluation of three anticoagulants used for short-term storage of loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) whole blood. J Herp Med Surg 27: 97-103. https://doi.org/10.5818/17-06-116.1.
2015
Niemuth JN, Harms CA, Stoskopf MK. 2015. Effects of processing time on whole blood and plasma samples from loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) for 1H-NMR-based metabolomics. Herp Cons Biol 10: 149-160.
Page-Karjian A, Norton, TM, Harms C, Mader D, Herbst LH, Stedman N, Gottdenker NL. 2015. Fibropapillomatosis in rehabilitating loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Dis Aquat Org 115: 185-191. doi: 10.3354/dao02878
2013
Erlacher-Reid CD, Norton TM, Harms CA, Thompson R, Walsh MT, Stamper MA. 2013. Intestinal and cloacal strictures in free-ranging and aquarium-maintained green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). J Zoo Wildl Med 44: 408-429.
2011
Anderson ET, Minter LJ, Clarke EO, Mroch RM, Beasley JF, Harms CA. 2011. The effects of feeding on hematological and plasma biochemical profiles in green (Chelonia mydas) and Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) sea turtles. Vet Med Int. 2011, DOI:10.4061/2011/890829, 7 pp. http://www.sage-hindawi.com/journals/vmi/aip/890829/.
Harms CA, Cranston EA, Papich MB, Rodriguez MX, Higgins MB, Flanagan JP. 2011. Pharmacokinetics of clindamycin in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after a single intravenous, intramuscular or oral dose. J Herp Med Surg 21: 113-119.
(not quite as direct a connection, but inspired by use of clindamycin at KBSTRRC, and contains a J. Beasley pers. comm. reference)
2010
Stringer EM, Harms CA, Beasley JF, Anderson ET. 2010. Comparison of ionized calcium, parathyroid hormone, and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in rehabilitating and healthy wild green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). J Herp Med Surg 20: 122-127, DOI: 10.5818/1529-9651-20.4.122.
2009
Church ML, Grafinger MS, Harms CA, Lewbart GA, Christian LS, Beasley JF. 2009. Surgical repair of severe flipper lacerations in a loggerhead, Caretta caretta, and a Kemp’s ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, sea turtle. J Zoo Wildl. Med 40: 744-751.
Snoddy JE, Landon M, Blanvillain G, Southwood A. 2009. Blood biochemistry of sea turtles captured in gillnets in the Lower Cape Fear River, North Carolina, USA. J Wildl Manage 73: 1394-1401.
2008
Maclean RA, Harms CA, Braun-McNeill J. 2008. Propofol anesthesia in loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles. J Wildl Dis 44: 143-150.
(another not quite as directly connected, but the KBSTRRC took two turtles that became floaters as a result of the surgical procedure for which the anesthesia was performed, until they were ready for release, so it would have been really problematic for this project without the KBSTRRC's help, and KBSTRRC is specifically mentioned in the text for that)
Wolf KN, Harms CA, Beasley JF. 2008. Evaluation of multiple clinical chemistry analyzers for sea turtle health assessment. J Am Vet Med Assoc 233: 470-475.
2007
Valentine KH, Harms CA, Cadenas MB, Birkenheuer AJ, Marr HS, Braun-McNeill J, Maggi RG, Breitschwerdt EB. 2007. Bartonella DNA in loggerhead sea turtles. Emerg Infec Dis 13: 949-950.
2004
Keller JM, Kucklick JR, Stamper MA, Harms CA, McClellan-Green PD. 2004. Associations between organochlorine contaminant concentrations and clinical health parameters in loggerhead sea turtles from North Carolina, U.S.A. Environmental Health Perspectives 112: 1074-1079.
2003
Jaeger GH, Wosar MA, Harms CA, Lewbart GA. 2003. Supraplastron approach to the cranial coelomic cavity in a loggerhead turtle. J Am Vet Med Assoc 223: 353-355.
Presler BM, Goodman RA, Harms CA, Hawkins EC, Lewbart GA. 2003. Endoscopic evaluation of the esophagus and stomach in three loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and a Malaysian giant turtle (Orlitia borneensis). J Zoo Wildl Med 34: 88-92.
2002
Chittick EJ, Stamper MA, Beasley JF, Lewbart GA, Horne WA. 2002. Medetomidine, ketamine, and sevoflurane for anesthesia of injured loggerhead sea turtles: 13 cases (1996-2000). J Am Vet Med Assoc 221: 1019-1025.
Mallo K, Harms CA, Lewbart GA, Papich MG. 2002. Pharmacokinetics of fluconazole in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after single intravenous and subcutaneous injections, and multiple subcutaneous injections. J Zoo Wildl Med 33: 29-35.
Harms CA, Lewbart GA, Beasley JF. 2002. Medical management of mixed nocardial and unidentified fungal osteomyelitis in a Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii. J Herp Med Surg 12 (3): 21-26.
2000
Nutter FB, Lee DD, Stamper MA, Lewbart GA, Stoskopf MK. 2000. Hemiovariosalpingectomy in a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Vet Rec 146: 78-80.
Dannemiller NG, Lynch AM, Christiansen EF, Harms CA. 2024. An 18-µm microaggregate blood filter does not cause hemolysis during in vitro whole blood transfusions in sea turtles. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 1(aop):1-8. https://doi.org/10.2460/ajvr.23.12.0269
2023
Dannemiller NG, Souza AR, Sherrod T, Womble M, Ozawa SM, Lewbart GA, Zagzebski KA, Harms CA. 2023. Esophageal stricture and occlusion in a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas). J Herp Med Surg. https://doi.org/10.5818/JHMS-D-23-00020
2022
Heniff AC, Minter LJ, Harms CA, Bibus D, Koutsos EA, Ange-van Heugten KD. 2022. Whole blood fatty acid profiles of cold-stunned juvenile green, Kemp's ridley, and loggerhead sea turtles. J Zool Bot Gard 4:1-11, https://doi.org/10.3390/jzbg4010001.
Jones HJ, Minter LJ, Harms C, Bibus D, Koutsos L, Ange-van Heugten K. 2022. Fatty acid profiles in managed care green and Kemp's ridley turtles over time. J Zool Bot Gard 3:545-554, https://doi.org/10.3390/jzbg3040040.
2021
Gregory TM, Harms CA, Gorges MA, Lewbart GA, Papich MG. 2021. Pharmacokinetics of ketorolac in juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after a single intramuscular injection. J Vet Pharm Ther 44.4: 583-589. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.12952.
Harms CA, Ruterbories LK, Stacy NI, Christiansen EF, Papich MG, Lynch AG, Barratclough A, Serrano ME. 2021. Safety of multiple dose intramuscular ketoprofen treatment in loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta). J Zoo Wildl Med 52: 126-132.
Mones AB, Gruber EJ, Harms CA, Lohmann CMF, Lohmann KJ, Lewbart GA. 2021. Lactic acidosis induced by manual restraint for health evaluation and comparison of two point-of-care analyzers in healthy loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). J Zoo Wildl Med 52:1195-1204.
(work done with Lohmann Lab turtles, but inspired by pilot work at KBSTRRC)
2020
Harms CA, Boylan SM, Stacy BA, Beasley JF, García-Párraga D, Godfrey MH. 2020. Gas embolism and massive blunt force trauma to sea turtles entrained in hopper dredges in North Carolina and South Carolina, USA. Dis Aquat Org 142: 1889-196, doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03542.
Page-Karjian A, Serrano ME, Carzendafner J, Morgan A, Ritchie BW, Gregory CR, McNeill JB, Perrault JR, Christiansen EF, Harms CA. 2020. Molecular assessment of Chelonid Alphaherpesvirus 5 infection in green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles in North Carolina, USA, 2015-2019. Animals 10:1964; doi:10.3390/ani10111964.
2019
Barratclough A, Tuxbury K, Hanel R, Stacy NI, Ruterbories L, Christiansen E, Harms CA. 2019. Baseline plasma thromboelastography in Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles and its use to diagnose coagulopathies in cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley and green sea turtles. J Zoo Wildl Med 50: 62-68. https://doi.org/10.1638/2018-0142.
Harms CA, Wyneken J. 2019. Husbandry and management of sea turtles in human care. In: Divers SJ, Stahl S, Mader DR (eds.). Mader’s Reptile Medicine and Surgery, 3rd ed. Elsevier, St. Louis, Chapter 24, pp. 180-193.
Innis CJ, Finn S, Kennedy A, Burgess E, Norton T, Manire CA, Harms C. 2019. A summary of sea turtles released from rescue and rehabilitation programs in the United States, with observations on re-encounters. Chelonian Cons Biol 18:309. doi:10.2744/CCB-1335.1.
Lively MJ, Westermeyer HD, Harms CA, Christiansen EF. 2019. Ophthalmic lesions in a population of cold-stunned sea turtles (Chelonia mydas, Lepidochelys kempii, Caretta caretta). Vet Ophthal 22: 910-915. DOI: 10.1111/vop.12672.
Westermeyer HD, Cook AG, Harms C, Boylan S. 2019. Phacoemulsification cataract surgery in the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta): surgical technique and outcomes in 10 cases. Vet Ophthalmol 22: 644-650. DOI: 10.1111/vop.12635.
2018
Stacy, NI, Lynch JM, Arendt MD, Avens L, McNeill JB, Cray C, Day RD, Harms CA, Lee AM, Peden-Adams MM, Thorvalson K, Segars AL, Norton TM. 2018. Chronic debilitation in stranded loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the southeastern United States: morphometrics and clinicopathological findings. PLOS One 13(7): e0200355, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200355.
2017
Manire CA, Norton TM, Stacy BA, Innis CJ, Harms CA (eds.). 2017. Sea Turtle Health and Rehabilitation. J. Ross Publishing, Jupiter, Florida, 1010 pp.
Phillips BE, Stoskopf MK, Beasley JF, Harms CA. 2017. Evaluation of three anticoagulants used for short-term storage of loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) whole blood. J Herp Med Surg 27: 97-103. https://doi.org/10.5818/17-06-116.1.
2015
Niemuth JN, Harms CA, Stoskopf MK. 2015. Effects of processing time on whole blood and plasma samples from loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) for 1H-NMR-based metabolomics. Herp Cons Biol 10: 149-160.
Page-Karjian A, Norton, TM, Harms C, Mader D, Herbst LH, Stedman N, Gottdenker NL. 2015. Fibropapillomatosis in rehabilitating loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Dis Aquat Org 115: 185-191. doi: 10.3354/dao02878
2013
Erlacher-Reid CD, Norton TM, Harms CA, Thompson R, Walsh MT, Stamper MA. 2013. Intestinal and cloacal strictures in free-ranging and aquarium-maintained green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). J Zoo Wildl Med 44: 408-429.
2011
Anderson ET, Minter LJ, Clarke EO, Mroch RM, Beasley JF, Harms CA. 2011. The effects of feeding on hematological and plasma biochemical profiles in green (Chelonia mydas) and Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) sea turtles. Vet Med Int. 2011, DOI:10.4061/2011/890829, 7 pp. http://www.sage-hindawi.com/journals/vmi/aip/890829/.
Harms CA, Cranston EA, Papich MB, Rodriguez MX, Higgins MB, Flanagan JP. 2011. Pharmacokinetics of clindamycin in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after a single intravenous, intramuscular or oral dose. J Herp Med Surg 21: 113-119.
(not quite as direct a connection, but inspired by use of clindamycin at KBSTRRC, and contains a J. Beasley pers. comm. reference)
2010
Stringer EM, Harms CA, Beasley JF, Anderson ET. 2010. Comparison of ionized calcium, parathyroid hormone, and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in rehabilitating and healthy wild green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). J Herp Med Surg 20: 122-127, DOI: 10.5818/1529-9651-20.4.122.
2009
Church ML, Grafinger MS, Harms CA, Lewbart GA, Christian LS, Beasley JF. 2009. Surgical repair of severe flipper lacerations in a loggerhead, Caretta caretta, and a Kemp’s ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, sea turtle. J Zoo Wildl. Med 40: 744-751.
Snoddy JE, Landon M, Blanvillain G, Southwood A. 2009. Blood biochemistry of sea turtles captured in gillnets in the Lower Cape Fear River, North Carolina, USA. J Wildl Manage 73: 1394-1401.
2008
Maclean RA, Harms CA, Braun-McNeill J. 2008. Propofol anesthesia in loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles. J Wildl Dis 44: 143-150.
(another not quite as directly connected, but the KBSTRRC took two turtles that became floaters as a result of the surgical procedure for which the anesthesia was performed, until they were ready for release, so it would have been really problematic for this project without the KBSTRRC's help, and KBSTRRC is specifically mentioned in the text for that)
Wolf KN, Harms CA, Beasley JF. 2008. Evaluation of multiple clinical chemistry analyzers for sea turtle health assessment. J Am Vet Med Assoc 233: 470-475.
2007
Valentine KH, Harms CA, Cadenas MB, Birkenheuer AJ, Marr HS, Braun-McNeill J, Maggi RG, Breitschwerdt EB. 2007. Bartonella DNA in loggerhead sea turtles. Emerg Infec Dis 13: 949-950.
2004
Keller JM, Kucklick JR, Stamper MA, Harms CA, McClellan-Green PD. 2004. Associations between organochlorine contaminant concentrations and clinical health parameters in loggerhead sea turtles from North Carolina, U.S.A. Environmental Health Perspectives 112: 1074-1079.
2003
Jaeger GH, Wosar MA, Harms CA, Lewbart GA. 2003. Supraplastron approach to the cranial coelomic cavity in a loggerhead turtle. J Am Vet Med Assoc 223: 353-355.
Presler BM, Goodman RA, Harms CA, Hawkins EC, Lewbart GA. 2003. Endoscopic evaluation of the esophagus and stomach in three loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and a Malaysian giant turtle (Orlitia borneensis). J Zoo Wildl Med 34: 88-92.
2002
Chittick EJ, Stamper MA, Beasley JF, Lewbart GA, Horne WA. 2002. Medetomidine, ketamine, and sevoflurane for anesthesia of injured loggerhead sea turtles: 13 cases (1996-2000). J Am Vet Med Assoc 221: 1019-1025.
Mallo K, Harms CA, Lewbart GA, Papich MG. 2002. Pharmacokinetics of fluconazole in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after single intravenous and subcutaneous injections, and multiple subcutaneous injections. J Zoo Wildl Med 33: 29-35.
Harms CA, Lewbart GA, Beasley JF. 2002. Medical management of mixed nocardial and unidentified fungal osteomyelitis in a Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii. J Herp Med Surg 12 (3): 21-26.
2000
Nutter FB, Lee DD, Stamper MA, Lewbart GA, Stoskopf MK. 2000. Hemiovariosalpingectomy in a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Vet Rec 146: 78-80.
