Unfortunately some of the amazing natural areas in Antigua are plagued by large amounts of garbage. There is an effort ongoing to clean this up – from removing bulk waste at unauthorized dump sites, to coastal…

My research with the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project has brought me face to face with the Sargassum issue in the Caribbean. Huge amounts of the seaweed have been clogging coastal waters periodically since 2011. We have highlighted this…

One of the core components of my program as a Fulbright Fellow in Antigua this year has been to coordinate a Conservation Seminar Series. We have had a seminar per month so far, and will continue…

I recently got a nice writeup from the International Programs office of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at NC State. It highlights my international fieldwork in Antigua, and specifically delves into my Fulbright work.…

  One exciting aspect of the Fulbright Fellowship I am doing this year in Antigua is that I am in Antigua for leatherback nesting season! Typically I arrive after leatherbacks have mostly wrapped up nesting, at…

  After finishing nesting on Long Island, Antigua this past summer, this satellite-tagged hawksbill traveled for more than a month to Long Island, Bahamas. The Long Island-to-Long Island migration covered some 1,600 km, one of the…

  A new article in The Atlantic highlights recent observations published by Dr. Mike Cove and me in the journal Mammalian Biology. Interesting that these peculiar interactions may not be as isolated as we assumed! Check…

We just had a new short communication made available online in the journal Chelonian Conservation and Biology. It deals with work completed during a 2012 internship at Gulf Islands National Seashore in Mississippi. The paper explores…

  We just had a new note published in Mammalian Biology that documents a novel and peculiar interaction. You can check it out HERE. This interaction occurred on Big Pine Key, Florida: a human-dominated landscape free of…

Recently, large collaborations between sea turtle monitoring programs in the West Atlantic have identified regional declines in growth rates for loggerheads, hawksbills, and greens. This may be evidence for a large-scale “ecological regime shift.” See my whole…