Turtle tracks
We are following the movements of four satellite-tagged leatherbacks right now. Since we are thinking a lot about Trinidad these days as we prepare for our 2019 CSTN Field Trip to Trinidad this [...]
Reasoning
It has been hard to write here for many months. Sometimes I am struck silent by the weightlessness of words. They tumble and break around us and still I can’t make them loud enough to show what [...]
Trip to Trinidad
This is the second part of Kayla Hamelin’s journal of her time working on the nesting beach with leatherbacks in Trinidad last spring.
Trip to Trinidad
At this time of year, we are deep into planning for our upcoming turtle season on the field boat and at the Sea Turtle Centre.
Nicholas
Nicholas Mrosovsky is one of the only visitors to our project to miss seeing a leatherback. Usually, even if the weather is bad and turtles are scarce, we are able to find one.
Turtle-cam: Life from a leatherback’s perspective
This is a look at life from a leatherback’s point of view. That is the top of the leatherback's head you see in the foreground, with a jellyfish just beyond it.
Lily Rose
We name turtles after people sometimes. Not always, but sometimes.
Jairo Vive
Sometime after 10:30 p.m. on May 30, 2013, Jairo Morra Sandoval was murdered on a Costa Rican beach. Jairo, who was 26 years old, protected leatherback turtle eggs and was killed for it by a [...]
Search and find: Virginia Beach edition
One of the satellite tags (not the kind we follow online) used on loggerhead turtles tagged off Nova Scotia this summer fell off a turtle and was floating in the water.
World Turtle Day
Today is World Turtle Day. (Really.)
