Month: December 2022

STRETCH IMPACTS

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 …

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STRETCH METHODOLOGY

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 …

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STAKEHOLDERS AND PARTNERS

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. …

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GOALS

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 …

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STRETCH

Unraveling the mysteries of North Pacific loggerhead sea turtle migrations 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 Baja California. Larry …

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MLARNOV

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.  

team stretch

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Larry Crowder   George Balazs Dana Briscoe Jeffery Polovina Jeffery Seminoff Contributing members Masanori Kurita Tomomi Saito Marc Rice Masanori Mori Denise Parker Cali Turner Alberto Abreu Bianca Santos