Sea Turtle Research Program (STRP), Marine Biology, SCUBA
HPA STRP GOES TO GHANA Night of Nov. 8-9, 2026 The team was notified about another nesting Olive Ridley around 1230 h and they rallied the team to capture and place the third tag on this turtle. It was released about 2 hours later and safely made its way back to the ocean. Above …
WEST COAST SEA TURTLE SYMPOSIUM West Coast Sea Turtles: Ambassadors Across the Pacific Marc Rice, STRP Co-Director, joined other STRETCH project team members at the West Coast Sea Turtle Symposium on November 2-4, 2026 in Monterey, California. STRETCH team members (Larry Crowder, Dana Briscoe and Bianca Silva-Santos) gave excellent presentations about the history of the …
Honu health assessment 92 Puako beach road 10-22-26 The HPA STRP team, led by Laura Jim, Robyn Scarth and Marc Rice and joined by 9 HPA student STRP volunteers, traveled to 92 Puako Beach Road for our annual Honu Health Assessment. We were, once again, graciously hosted by HPA Alum Ava Williams to whom we …
HPA Sea Turtle Research Program Moso Island, Vanuatu January 6 to January 12, 2023 As can be seen on our blog… we had a successful educational/research trip to Vanuatu recently. While weather was an issue, we were able to tag one nesting hawksbill turtle, Makala (named after the area where she was found), who has left …
SWOT map showing the international nature of the loggerhead distributions in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. (SWOT Report, vol. XVI ) Nearly all of the 231 satellite tags from the previous studies were on turtles deployed in the West and Central North Pacific. Because tag durations average a little over a year (a few …
Marc Rice and George Balazs with 2 of the 197 satellite tagged juvenile loggerheads that were reelased between 1997 and 2013 into the Eastern and Central North Pacific. https://youtu.be/r_j2ZHW1bUQ Fifteen of the 30 juvenile loggerhead turtles being raised at the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium were being feed when we visited them in November. They …
Hands across the Pacific! Because our experimental deployments occur in international waters, the stakeholders most relevant to this project include the citizens of Japan, where these loggerheads nest and will be reared, as well as the citizens of Baja California, Mexico and Southern California, USA, where tens of thousands of these turtles aggregate to feed. …
This shows adelita’s amazing track from Baja California to Japan in 1997. Orthographic projection, courtesy of Wallace J. Nichols, showing Adelita’s complete track: Scientific Until recently, scientists had no clear understanding of the mechanisms by which Japanese loggerheads migrate across the entire North Pacific Ocean to Baja California. The TCH (Briscoe et al. 2021) proposes …
Unraveling the mysteries of North Pacific loggerhead sea turtle migrations BLOG: STRETCH UPDATES The migratory tracks of 231 juvenile and sub-adult loggerhead turtles tracked by satellite tags from 1997 to 2013. For the STRETCH project the turtles of interest are the ones on the right hand side of the image that moved toward or to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpyeuwA52yk&t=102s On Wednesday, 11/30/2022, Laura Jim, Monica Hattoon-Green and 7 HPA students joined the Malama Honu team to do the monthly weigh-in of the two captive turtles being raised at Mauna Lani Auberge Resort. Above is a short video of the days activities.