Robert Johnson has varied field experiences in The Bahamas and Georgia

ACCSTR PhD graduate student Robert Johnson has returned from several weeks of field work. Robert first spent two weeks in The Bahamas working with juvenile green turtles with Stevie Connett around Long Island and Conception Island. He then spent a week on Wassaw Island, Georgia with Joe Pfaller (Caretta Research Project, and ACCSTR) working with […]

Temma Kaufman graduates Summa Cum Laude

Temma, an undergraduate who volunteered in our laboratory for the last 3 years completed her Honor’s Thesis on sea turtle stable isotope discrimination between females and their eggs in April. Because of the high quality of her thesis, she graduated Summa Cum Laude in May. She will be starting medical school at FAU in the […]

Karen Bjorndal presents talk at Whitney Laboratory

Karen presented a talk entitled “Roles of sea turtles in marine ecosystems” to a standing-room-only crowd on 13 March. Karen’s presentation was in the Evenings at Whitney series at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, UF, St. Augustine.

Blair Witherington joins the ACCSTR faculty

Through collaboration with Disney’s Animal Kingdom (DAK), we have developed a Senior Sea Turtle Conservation Biologist position for the ACCSTR that is funded for at least 5 years through a contract with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Following an international search, we have hired Dr. Blair Witherington to fill this position. Blair was one of […]

Kate Mansfield presents seminar at ACCSTR

Kate visited the ACCSTR on Friday, 28 February and presented a stimulating seminar titled “Tracking the sea turtle lost years.” We had very exciting meetings with Kate discussing oceanic stage turtles.

Melania and Patricia complete their PhDs

Melania Lopez-Castro and Patricia Zarate successfully defended their dissertations in November and will receive their PhDs during the commencement ceremony on December 13th. Congratulations to both for their excellence!

Alan and Karen just returned from the Azores

Alan and Karen just returned from two weeks in the Azores where they attended a workshop on “Sharing experience on marine turtle between Overseas European Territories” with colleagues from the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Principe, and Reunion.

ACCSTR partners with BNT, FIRE, and STC to lead Sea Turtle Research Camp

ACCSTR graduate student Joe Pfaller helped lead a Sea Turtle Research Camp on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas 1-5 July. Joe taught Bahamian students about sea turtles and their nesting habits, and coordinated nesting beach surveys along the western coast of the island. Stevie Connett coordinated the in-water surveys. This project is […]

TAMAR visits ACCSTR to plan research initiatives

Neca Marcovaldi, Gustave Lopez, and Alex Santos from Projeto TAMAR ( Brazil) participated in a 4 day mini-workshop (14-17 June) in Gainesville with ACCSTR members to plan collaborative research initiatives. World Sea Turtle Day, celebrated on Archie Carr’s Birthday on 16 June, was honored with a dinner at Karen’s and Alan’s home.

World Sea Turtle Day

ACCSTR graduate students Mariela Pajuelo and Melania López will participate in the celebration of World Sea Turtle Day on Saturday, June 15th at the Florida Museum of Natural History from 12 pm to 4 pm.

Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research

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