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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 [...]

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 [...]

  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. [...]

This is the second part of Kayla Hamelin’s journal of her time working on the nesting beach with leatherbacks in Trinidad last spring.

Well, my prediction that Beverly would turn suddenly down to the nesting beach was wrong. She is still hanging off the Azores, and not heading to Trinidad.

Most turtles are thousands of kilometers south of where we initially satellite tagged them by now. Christie is an excellent example of this. She is the classic post-foraging (feeding) season [...]

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.

We saw dozens of turtles last night. It was amazing.