Sea Turtle Research Program (STRP), Marine Biology, SCUBA
Tagging Trip- 92 Puako Beach Road On Monday, 4/17/2023, Laura Jim, Marc Rice and 10 HPA Sea Turtle Research Program volunteers traveled to Puako to capture, measure, weigh and tag green turtles (honu). We were joined by George Balazs who traveled over from Honolulu. We arrived at the tagging site at 0830, set up our …
HPA JOINS UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HILO AT PUNALU’U At 0600 hours on Friday, 3/31, 5 HPA students, Laura Jim and Marc Rice began a 2.5 hour drive to the south shore of Hawaii Island and Punalu’u Beach Park. There we joined the University of Hawaii Hilo’s Marine Option Program students for the annual turtle tagging …
Spring break-diving in Savusavu Laura Jim (HPA Director of SCUBA and Co-Director of the HPA Sea Turtle Research Program) is currently in Savusavu, Fiji doing some SCUBA diving. Besides having fun, she is “scoping out” diving opportunities for possible spring break diving with HPA students in coming years. Below are some underwater images that she …
HPA STUDENTS perform scuba cleanup at Kawaihae On Saturday, 2/25/2023, 5 HPA students, Laura Jim, Marc Rice and David Giff spent the morning scuba diving off of the outer breakwater at Kawaihae Harbor (also know as the Kawaihae Surf Park). The team divided into two teams and scoured the bottom for marine debris. They covered …
HPA’s 4th Grade visits Malama na Honu Program On Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, HPA’s 4th grade class visited the Mauna Lani Auberge Resort’s fish ponds and the Malama na Honu project to help weigh and measure the captive reared honu on the monthly check-up. he class arrived around 1000 h, gathered on the lawn near …
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 …