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World’s Most Ambitious Satellite Telemetry Study of Foraging Green and Hawksbill Sea Turtles

Working with partners, NOAA researchers use satellite tags to investigate the spatial ecology of sea turtles in nearshore habitats of the Mariana Islands.
September 24, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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East Coast Marine Life Survey Renewed for Five More Years

Finding out how many marine mammals, sea turtles and seabirds are in U.S. waters, where they are located at different times of the year, and how they may be changing over time is the focus of this multi-year federal effort now in its tenth year.
September 24, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Researching and Rescuing Hawaiian Monk Seals and Green Sea Turtles

Wrapping up the 2019 field season after 3 months of field camps in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
September 23, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Temperature Observations To Avoid Loggerheads Tool Supports Turtle Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries

NOAA Fisheries scientists have developed a new experimental dynamic ocean management tool called TOTAL – Temperature Observations To Avoid Loggerheads - to reduce accidental catches of protected loggerhead turtles in fishing nets.
September 05, 2019 - News ,

Watching Wildlife

Learn more about proper marine life viewing guidelines on the shore and in the water.
On Shipwreck Beach on the south coast of Kauai, Hawaii, an endangered Hawaiian monk seal takes a nap on the beach. The sign in the foreground instructs people to walk around the seal.

NOAA Releases 118 Florida Loggerhead Sea Turtles into the Wild

Fisheries scientists complete turtle excluder device testing.
June 20, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Three Ways We Are Restoring Sea Turtles After Deepwater Horizon

With early restoration funding NOAA and federal and state agencies are helping sea turtles recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
June 19, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Record Number of Leatherback Turtles Tagged in North Carolina

Thirteen leatherback turtles were sampled and tagged off Beaufort, North Carolina, in May by NOAA Fisheries Northeast and Southeast Science Center staffs and colleagues, continuing a project begun in 2017 to assess the turtles abundance, movements, behavior, and health status.
June 18, 2019 - Feature Story ,
Turtle capture from small zodiac, scientist with net in bowsprit.

Meet Henry Milliken, Research Fisheries Biologist

We continue our series to introduce the people who work at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Each month we feature a new "face" from the Center's five laboratories and share with you a bit about who they are, what they do at the Center, and what they enjoy doing in their spare time. Henry Milliken conducts gear research to reduce bycatch, and heads the new Populations, Ecology, and Threats Team at the Woods Hole Laboratory.
June 18, 2019 - Feature Story ,
Tagging team with tagged turtle on deck.