Category: News

  • New Paper: Beach Geomorphology and Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting

    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…

  • New paper: Peculiar mammal interactions

      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…

  • Ecological regime shift in the West Atlantic?

    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…

  • Fulbright Press

    6 other NCSU students and I were written up recently in a NCSU press release of sorts. Check it out here. Thanks to the Fellowship Advising Office for their help in drafting and submitting the Fulbright application.…

  • International Sea Turtle Symposium 2017

      The International Sea Turtle Symposium was held in Las Vegas this past April. I attended and presented a poster on some of my current research. You can check out the poster here. It was an invigorating…

  • Are we overestimating sea turtle populations?

    My new post in the Abaco Scientist blog that you can view HERE discusses a new paper out last month that suggests the possibility that certain sea turtle populations are being overestimated by a factor of 2. Check…

  • Two new fellowship award announcements

    An exciting week brought news of 2 fellowships that will be major turning points in aiding my continuing research in Antigua and at NC State. A Fulbright Fellowship will support international research and an ambitious community engagement…

  • Epoxying endangered species: satellite transmitters deployed

    Checkout my new post on the Abaco Scientist Blog about deploying Platform Terminal Transmitters to track hawksbill movements here.

  • New paper out in Restoration Ecology

    This August we had a new paper come out in Restoration Ecology. This work is from research conducted with key collaborator Mike Cove, who will soon defend his dissertation. The papers delves into our camera trapping study…

  • Satellite tracking sea turtles

    See my post about hawksbill satellite tracking on the Abaco Scientist blog: HERE