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News from the field: Science, sound and innovation!

5/27/2016

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I just spent two weeks with sea turtle, acoustics and animal behaviour experts from national and international institutions including  Gettysburg college (USA), Duke University (USA), Chicago Zoological Society (USA), Van Oord (Netherlands), MarBrasil (Brazil), Karumbe (Uruguay), PRICTMA (Argentina), LEC-UFPR (Brazil), and TAMAR (Brazil)  in Paranaguá, Brazil to assess the health and movements of local juvenile green turtle populations and to investigate potential technological solutions for minimising sea turtle interactions with hopper dredging and marine construction projects. This ground-breaking research, funded by Van Oord, will aid in the conservation and management of global sea turtle populations and ensure sustained populations for future generations.
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News from the field: Assessing the effects of the recreational bay scallop fishery on sea turtles in the Big Bend of Florida

5/18/2016

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Christian Gredzens and Dr. Mariana Fuentes successfully deployed 10 satellite tags on juvenile green and Kemp's ridley sea turtles in Crystal River, FL during a collaborative trip with the Inwater Research Group (IRG). This work is part of Christian's dissertation work on the spatial ecology of juvenile turtles and the effects of disturbance on movement patterns and distribution. This trip marks the beginning of a busy field season assessing recreational use, habitat, and prey distributions in the Big Bend Region of Florida. We'd like to thank everyone involved, especially IRG, for their hard work and making it a great trip. We'd also like to thank the Sea Turtle License Plate Grants program for partially funding this work.  Check back soon for updates on our tagged turtles and project development.

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Research and photos taken as part of NMFS and FWC permitted project .
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Teaching K-12 students about sea turtles

5/7/2016

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Our lab encourages undergraduate and graduate students to conduct outreach activities with the broad community. Both Dora DeMaria and Natalie Montero have been busy educating K-12 kids about sea turtles, their biology ecology and conservation.

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Dora with NEST students
Dora DeMaria _ Women in Math, Science & Engineering Program undergraduate student
 
Dora created an outreach program for students in the Florida panhandle area. The program focused on educating school children about sea turtles, their life cycle, threats they encounter, and conservation efforts. She worked with children at the after school program called The Nest in Franklin County, due to their proximity to St. George Island, a beach town that is known for Loggerhead sea turtle nesting in the panhandle.
Natalie Montero, Noyce SOAR program undergraduate student

Natalie thought public K-12 schools in Leon and Wakulla counties about the potential impacts of climate change on sea turtles. Natalie’s classes focused on interactive activities to illustrate how sea level rise may affect sea turtles.


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Natalie presenting at the STEM Equity Conference, FSU
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Climate Change and Sea Turtle workshop

5/3/2016

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Twenty  managers and researchers recently meet at the Barrier Island Center, Melbourne beach, Florida, to identify key knowledge gaps and research priorities related to sea turtles and climate change in Florida. The workshop was organized by myself, kate Mansfield (UCF) and Vince Saba (NOAA) and funded by the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research at UF and the Disney Conservation Fund. The Barrier Island Center kindly provided the venue.
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