As part of Barnegat Bay Partnership’s “Ask a Barnegat Bay Scientist” free webinar series, John Wnek, recently retired from his position as supervisor of science and research at the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science in Manahawkin, took to WebEx last week to explain several projects initiated to protect the area’s northern diamondback terrapin, and to discuss how residents can help with terrapin conservation.

Wnek has spend nearly two decades studying local terrapin populations and, in his retirement, “continues to coordinate…