Samantha Clark

Co-Founder / Director of Medical Services

Sea Turtle Care & Conservation Specialists

Samantha Clark is a licensed veterinary technician who graduated from Sweet Briar College with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Initially, she had worked monitoring nesting beaches during high school and college summer breaks.

After graduation, Sam spent eighteen months with the School for Field Studies in Baja Mexico doing, among other things, population studies with sea turtles and gray whales. There followed a rehabilitation internship under AmeriCorps at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island, Georgia. She decided to make sea turtles her career focus, so she attended St. Petersburg College and earned her license as a veterinary technician in 2014.

Sam thereafter worked in sea turtle hospitals, exotic animal hospitals, and zoological hospitals on both Florida coasts. In her role as hospital clinical operations manager, she developed and expanded clinical operation protocols, with particular interest in sea turtle health and conservation.

Although she has spent much of her time out rescuing stranded sea turtles, or in hospitals and behind a microscope, she also often participates in field research involving sea turtle nesting populations.