Category: News

  • 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

  • Antigua and Barbuda bans plastic bags

    On July 1st, the nation of Antigua and Barbuda started its ban of single use plastic grocery bags. See my Abaco Scientist blog post here.

  • One month into hawksbill nesting season

    From my post on the Abaco Scientist blog: The start of July was the one month mark of our hawksbill monitoring season in Antigua. While over 29 years of monitoring (1987-2015) there has been a significant long-term increase…

  • Highlights from the 2016 International Sea Turtle Symposium

    I attended the International Sea Turtle Symposium in Lima, Peru in March. See more details here in my Abaco Scientist blog post.

  • End of Season Highlights

    The 2015 Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project monitoring season is coming to a close on November 15 after 5.5 months of hourly monitoring every night! It will be bittersweet, as it will be nice to get a break from…