Joe Pfaller’s paper published in PLOS ONE
Joe and colleagues published their paper “Accounting for imperfect detection is critical for inferring marine turtle nesting population trends” in PLOS ONE (2013) 8(4): e62326.
Mike Frick and Joe Pfaller co-author book chapter
Mike and Joe have co-authored a chapter entitled “Sea Turtle Epibiosis” in the book The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume III.
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Joe Pfaller receives research grants from the PADI Foundation and the Department of Biology, UF
Joe has received two more grants in support of his research on the global genetic relationships of rafting crabs, which are often found riding on sea turtles. The PADI Foundation funded the proposal Hitchhiking the High Sea: Global Genetics of Rafting Crabs and the Department of Biology funded the proposal Genetic homogeneity across spatial, taxonomic […]
ACCSTR received a grant from the Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program
The ACCSTR received a grant (March 2012) for $25,000 from the Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program, which is funded by the sales of the sea turtle specialty license plate. The ACCSTR received the grant to support Hannah Vander Zanden’s study of loggerhead foraging patterns in the Gulf of Mexico. The grant provides funding to analyze […]
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Hannah Vander Zanden’s paper published in MEPS
Hannah and colleagues published their paper “Trophic ecology of a green turtle breeding population” in Marine Ecology Progress Series (2013) 476:237-249.
Karen Bjorndal’s paper published in Marine Biology
Karen and colleagues published their paper “Threshold to maturity in a long-lived reptile: interactions of age, size and growth” Marine Biology (2013) 160:607-616. Bjorndal_et_al_MarBiol_2013.pdf
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Jeff Schmid speaks at ACCSTR
Jeff will speak at the ACCSTR Spring Semester Seminar Series on March 1st (Friday) at 4:00 pm in 521 Carr Hall. Jeff will present results of his research on Kemp’s ridleys in Charlotte Harbor, Florida.
ISTS in Baltimore a great success
Ray Carthy provided the leadership as ISTS president to make the annual meeting a great success! The meetings were attended by over 1016 researchers, conservationists, government personnel, and educators representing more than 67 countries.
Joe Pfaller receives research grants from Sigma Xi and SICB
Joe has just received two grants in support of his research on the global genetic relationships of rafting crabs, which are often found riding on oceanic stage sea turtles. Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research funded the proposal entitled Genetic homogeneity across spatial, taxonomic and ecological boundaries and The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) […]
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Joe Pfaller attends MARK Workshop
Joe participated in an intense 5-day workshop on design and analysis of sea turtle tagging studies using the program MARK. Joe plans to apply what he learned to estimate vital parameters for the loggerhead nesting population he studies on Wassaw Island, GA.