Jean-Paul Carneiro

A man wearing sunglasses, a backwards cap and a reflective yellow vest holds a turtle. He has one hand under the shell and one holding the back of the shell. Its mouth cannot reach his hands.

On June 23, 2021, Ryan Frantzen, a Roads and Grounds employee at Fermilab, correctly handles a spiny softshell turtle that Fermilab scientist Jean-Paul Carneiro found crossing the road. Coincidentally, Frantzen was in the first car Carneiro asked to stop to protect the creature. If you want to move a turtle on a road on campus, place it on the side of the road it is heading toward. Never pick up a turtle by the tail. Larger turtles may be feisty. Roads and Grounds responds to calls to move the turtles, too.