floridaleatherbacks.com - research

April is heading south!

leatherbacks — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:04:22 -0500

April continues to head south. She is now at 13.744 North and -49.815 West, which puts her about 3500 kilometers southeast of Juno Beach. She has been heading south for quite a while and we are not sure where she is heading.
A current map can be found in the "Our Research" section of this site.

Rosalie and April

leatherbacks — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:16:26 -0500

I am happy to report that Rosalie is still transmitting data after 576 days! She is heading south rather quickly out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and is now at a latitude just below Juno Beach. Do you think she will return to nest this season?
Rosalie has now traveled more than 16,600 kilometers since being tagged on June 7th 2005. She is currently more than 3,500 kilometers away from Juno Beach over the mid-atlantic ridge and will need to start heading towards Florida if she is going to nest this coming season.
A current map of April and Rosalie's travels can be found in the "O

April

chris — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:44:05 -0500

April has now traveled more than seven thousand kilometers since being tagged. Her current location is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean almost due east of Juno Beach.

More information about April and here current track can be found under the research section of the site.

report from a far away lab

kelly — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:28:00 -0400

In case anyone wondered where I've gone to and why I've not been writing recently - I left the field earlier than usual this year because I had an opportunity to come out to San Diego (La Jolla to be exact ï¿½ where I am now) to analyze all the genetic samples that weï¿½ve been taking from our leatherback girls for the past 6 years. This blog entry is to give a little bit of info about this work. As you've probably seen on our project log from time to time, we take a small skin sample from our nesting turtles - you only need a tiny bit to be able to get enough DNA to do the analysis. We've been fortunate to team up with Dr. Peter Dutton at the NOAA Fisheries Southwest Lab to do this work.