Category: News

  • New publication: Nesting trend update for Antiguan hawksbills

    The Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project (JBHP) research team collaborated to publish an update on the population trend for the hawksbill rookery at Long Island, Antigua. We view these updates as extremely important, given the JBHP’s unique…

  • New publication: Habitat fidelity in hawksbill sea turtles

    Adult sea turtles are generally assumed to live and forage within the same “home ranges” for long durations—if not their whole adult lives—only leaving to make periodic breeding migrations. This assumption is quite difficult to empirically…

  • New “launch report”: Blue Corridors for Turtles

    Blue Corridors for Turtles (BC4T) has officially launched! We released a preliminary, but thorough project report detailing the aims of the initiative, its underlying motivations, and progress to date. Coinciding with the publication of the report,…

  • New publication: Collaborative, global-scale evaluation of microplastics on turtle nesting beaches

    Plastic pollution and bioaccumulation within organisms are growing problems. As part of a study of microplastics pollution that played out over several years, the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project contributed sand samples from our hawksbill nesting beach…

  • New publication: Green turtle GPS tracking

    With the help of my NOAA research team and our partners, I led a recently published paper detailing patterns in habitat use for East Pacific green turtles at a foraging area in San Diego Bay, California.…

  • 2024 Hawksbill satellite tracking

    Check out this live map of hawksbill satellite tracks! You can follow along as turtles complete their nesting seasons at Long Island and undertake migrations to (sometimes distant) foraging areas. We recently deployed satellite transmitters onto…

  • Update from the field: Leatherback research

    Along with our key partners Upwell, our NOAA research team is in the midst of field surveys for leatherback sea turtles at their foraging areas off the west coast of USA. This work takes place over…

  • Media coverage: Cameras reveal sea turtle social behavior

    The Wildlife Society news page recently published an article covering new findings from our NOAA team’s camera-based research on green turtles San Diego Bay. The article, written by Joshua Learn, was inspired by our 2024 paper…

  • New publication: Insights from a turtle-borne camera

    Led by recent graduate Cameron Mullaney, we just had a paper published in Ecology and Evolution that details some initial insights gained by deploying a pop-off camera onto green turtles in San Diego Bay. Cam spearheaded…

  • New publication: Variable hawksbill migratory behavior

    I am happy to share that a chapter of my dissertation was just published in the journal Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. The paper disseminates the results of a multi-year effort to track the post-nesting…