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Coastal, diving, Oceans and estuaries, turtles, Uncategorized

Long-distance sea turtle migration provides unique opportunity to combine and test exciting tracking techniques

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Long-distance sea turtle migration provides unique opportunity to combine and test exciting tracking techniques

Dr Ryan Pearson Read Time: 419 words about 3 minutes. A nesting loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) with barnacles growing on her head. Photo: Ryan Pearson. In February 2016, a female loggerhead sea turtle dubbed ‘Marloo’ had a satellite transmitter attached to her shell on a beach south of Exmouth, Western Australia by the Gnaraloo wilderness [...]

Climate change, Coastal, Conservation, Ecosystems, fisheries, International, Oceans and estuaries, Our people, research, Seaworld, turtles, Uncategorized

The Great Isoscape: Using barnacles to retrace oceanic movements

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The Great Isoscape: Using barnacles to retrace oceanic movements

By Dr Ryan Pearson Techniques for tracking marine animals and objects have long been evolving; gaining in accuracy and reliability. However, most techniques rely on accessing an animal prior to tracking and few techniques are capable of retracing historical movements. Along with conservation efforts for threatened species, marine tragedies (where vehicles disappear in the ocean) [...]

Climate change, Coastal, Conservation, diver, diving, Ecosystems, Ecotoxicology, fisheries, Oceans and estuaries, Our people, PhD, population, seagrass, Seaworld, turtles, Uncategorized

Turtley sick moves: rescuing weak sea turtles and the science aimed at helping their equally weak populations

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Turtley sick moves: rescuing weak sea turtles and the science aimed at helping their equally weak populations

  Author: Dr Ryan Pearson Sea turtles are threatened. Literal boatloads of things affect their already low survival rates, most attributable to humans. Plastics, fishing entanglements, temperature increases, habitat degradation and actual boat strikes are killing turtles and affecting their populations in many other ways. Ultimately threatening their very existence. Knowing this, when my buddy [...]

Climate change, Coastal, Conservation, Ecosystems, Ecotoxicology, fisheries, Human health, Hydrology, Oceans and estuaries, Our people, Rivers, Seaworld, turtles, Uncategorized, womeninstem

Fulfilling dreams – helping to protect Australia’s sea turtles

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Fulfilling dreams – helping to protect Australia’s sea turtles

  Author: Laura Griffiths Emergent is a five-part blog series that takes a fresh look at ARI’s early career researchers – a group of driven, passionate people with a shared sense of responsibility about our changing world. These emerging scholars are developing skills and applying them to real world issues.  Some are even taking opportunities [...]