Turtle Tracks

Well, Stewie has gone a long way. She’s as far south as the state of Virginia. “It’s been two weeks and she’s travelled over 1,000 kilometres—although definitely not in the direction we’d predict [...]

Sometimes, it’s just nice to think about something else. I suppose it tells us a lot about the current state of the world that I’m suggesting an endangered species—about which we sometimes feel [...]

This map shows the track of the leatherback turtles that we helped satellite tag off the coast of Nova Scotia this summer in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Ruby, Sara, Isabel, [...]

We are overjoyed! A quick recap: We satellite tagged Daisy off the coast of Nova Scotia on July 11 in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Daisy already had one flipper tag when [...]

We haven’t heard anything more from Daisy. Not since that last satellite tag detection near the coast on the morning before we were expecting her to nest. Sometimes a turtle’s transmitter fails [...]

  11 April 2019 11:35 p.m. All night, we have been concentrating on Daisy, who was the first turtle we satellite tagged last summer. She is set to nest tonight—we think—at Grand Riviere. [...]

We were just checking the data records sent to us by our friends at Nature Seekers in Trinidad about the Canadian turtles they’ve seen on the beach.

It’s generally the time of year that we start to get very excited about our turtles heading to the nesting beach.

Here is where our turtles are. I have found it difficult to post these maps of late. The process itself is the same, of course. But I used to send the links to my friend Nicole.

We’re gradually settling back into office life, packing away equipment and painstakingly transferring information from our field sheets to our database.