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I am happy to share that a chapter of my dissertation was just published in the journal Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. The paper disseminates the results of a multi-year effort to track the post-nesting migrations of hawksbills from the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project (Antigua, Eastern Caribbean). Interestingly, we observed a wide range of…
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On October 4, I teamed up with my colleague Dr. Cali Turner Tomascewicz to give a talk to a sold out house as part of the “First Wednesday” lecture series at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Our talk, broadly titled “Sea turtles of California: What we know and how we are learning more,” was live-streamed…
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My coauthors and I recently had an article published in the Caribbean Journal of Science. Our paper makes use of satellite tracking data collected on post-nesting hawksbill sea turtles over 1998-2001. Eight individuals were tracked from Antigua and Jamaica as part of a collaborative project between NOAA and multiple Caribbean sea turtle programs, but these…
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I am excited to share that my collaborators and I just had a new article come out in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning. The article, titled “Urbanization affects the behavior of a predator-free ungulate in protected lands,” details changes in important key deer behaviors in close proximity to urban areas. We also highlight how…
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Hakai Magazine just published a short piece relaying some of the findings of our recent scientific journal article: “Beached Sargassum alters sand thermal environments: Implications for incubating sea turtle eggs.” The author of the Hakai piece, Richard Kemeny, does a nice job putting the content into a popular science format. It was also awesome to…
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I am excited to share a new article out in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. In it, my coauthors and I assess how Sargassum macroalgae, when washed up onto beaches, affects the incubation environment of sea turtle eggs. With so much Sargassum inundating shorelines in the Tropical North Atlantic, and given that…
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Hot off the press, my collaborators and I just had a new article come out in the journal Climate Change Ecology. The title does a good job of summarizing the big take home message: The Atlantic Sargassum invasion impedes beach access for nesting sea turtles. My coauthers (Dr. Seth Stapleton, Dr. Craig Layman, and Dr. Martha…
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On June 25, I gave an exit seminar and defended my dissertation to complete my PhD at NC State (title slide pictured above). It has been a terrific 5.5 years here, and I am excited for the next step. I will be joining NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, CA as an NRC…
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I am excited to share a new review out in the journal BioScience. In it, my coauthors and I explore what global warming means for sea turtle populations. We highlight fascinating new research but also point out key areas that still limit our understanding. A shout out to the team of coauthors that made this…
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Hot off the press, I recently published a short paper with my coauthor Dr. Seth Stapleton that describes how gradients in sand organic matter on Caribbean beaches match gradients in color. This is a very simple premise, but by quantitatively proving a relationship exists rather than just assuming, we hope this may help beach managers make…
