We asses the persistent organic pollutants in green turtle populations in the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge and San Diego Bay to understand the contamination risks for these populations.
We conduct research on marine turtles throughout the world to further our understanding of their ecology, demography, human threats, and conservation status.
Urban coastal ecosystems are unique intersections of human development and biodiversity, and monitoring populations in these areas is critical to understanding ecosystem health and function.
We assessed 21 trace metals in green turtle scute and red blood cell samples collected find evidence that green turtle TM concentrations can differ between urbanized habitats and that long-term monitoring of these green turtles may be necessary.
We estimate sea turtle densities, and describe trends based on sea turtle observations from 13 years of towed-diver surveys covering 7,300+ linear km, and more than 3,400 green and hawksbill sea turtles.
Our team surveys and cleans up derelict fishing nets and ocean plastics from the reef and shoreline habitats of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, an ecologically and culturally significant area.
New information on growth spurts and the potential impact on estimates of lifetime growth rate and age at first reproduction for the Hawaiian population of green sea turtles.
