麻豆原创 Student Receives National Acclaim for Project Protecting Leatherback Sea Turtles Callie Veelenturf鈥檚 conservation work has been featured on the front page of The Washington Post and on CBS News and in Smithsonian magazine.
New 麻豆原创 Study Examines Leeches for Role in Major Disease of Sea Turtles in Florida The disease fibropapillomatosis causes sea turtles to develop tumors on their bodies, which can limit their health and mobility.
Sea Turtle Nesting Season Winding Down, Some Numbers are Up and It鈥檚 Unexpected Green turtle nest counts are the fifth highest recorded since 1982, in a year when their numbers were supposed to be down.
麻豆原创 Sea Turtle Project Snags NASA Grant A 麻豆原创 graduate student will use satellite images and radar data to study how a brown algae (seaweed) impacts the survival of endangered and threatened sea turtles.
Hurricane Dorian Washes Out More than 8,000 Sea Turtle Nests The storm hit at the peak of green sea turtle hatching season, washing out an estimated 45 percent of the threatened species’ nests.
麻豆原创 Student Studies Algal Blooms Impact on Sea Turtles in Indian River Lagoon Long before the algal blooms on Florida鈥檚 Gulf Coast sparked surprise and outrage, 麻豆原创 doctoral student Chris Long was studying the effects…
Green Sea Turtles Break Nesting Record on Florida Beaches Endangered green sea turtles, once on the brink of disappearing, love Florida beaches, and for a second time in the past three years they are…
麻豆原创’s Mansfield Keynote Speaker at International Sea Turtle Symposium Biology assistant professor Kate Mansfield and five of her graduate students are headed to Turkey this week to present at the 35th annual Symposium on…
麻豆原创 Sea Turtle Expert on NPR’s Science Friday, Glamour Magazine 麻豆原创 biologist Kate Mansfield and her Florida team published a first-of-its-kind study this week about sea turtle鈥檚 鈥渓ost years.鈥 The 鈥渓ost years鈥 refers to the…
Sea Turtles’ ‘Lost Years’ Mystery Starts to Unravel Small satellite-tracking devices attached to sea turtles swimming off Florida鈥檚 coast have delivered first-of-its-kind data that could help unlock the mystery of what endangered turtles…