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The Sea Turtle Grants Program is funded from proceeds from the sale of the Florida Sea Turtle License Plate.Companies, possibly operating under a variety of names, are selling products online and using SEATURTLE.ORG's turtle tracking maps as a perk to buyers. Adopt a sea turtle today by choosing from the options. 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization (EIN: 94-3105570), and your symbolic animal adoptions are tax-deductible. This project was funded in part by a grant awarded from the Sea Turtle Grants Program. Your symbolic sea turtle adoption with Oceanic Society not only makes a great gift, it also provides direct support to our sea turtle conservation programs. And Carlin will symbolize GLDD conscientious efforts with LMC to protect critical nesting sites during its beach re-nourishment project Pappas will represent the relationship between a healthy planet, and in turn, a healthy real estate market for Illustrated Properties consumers. Benji will be weaved into The Benjamin School curriculum as a first-hand, educational resource. The data collected from the sponsored sea turtles will go far beyond LMC research publications. We don’t want to devalue those numbers, but having a greater understanding on how many nests a single female contributes to the yearly total nest count is extremely important for us to be able to properly estimate population size. “Using nest counts is one of the most simple and efficient ways to uncover trends in sea turtle nest counts over large regions and time periods. “There is a lot of census information baked into our nest counts,” said LMC Senior Manager of Research and Data, Sarah Hirsch.
But continued grant-funded research will help illuminate how many nests an individual female lays within a season. However, the total nest counts each year does not equate to the same number of females who nested on local shores, because turtles lay multiple clutches in a single season. LMC researchers have conducted daily dawn nesting patrols in northern Palm Beach County since 1987. Ongoing tasks will utilize real-time tracking technology to document and discover where each tagged female nests throughout the 2020 nesting season. Three of the seven turtles – named Benji, Pappas, and Carlin – are being sponsored by regional and national organizations, including The Benjamin School (Benji), Illustrated Properties (Pappas) and Great Lakes Dredge and Docks Company (GLDD) (Carlin).
The research project will track seven loggerheads in 2020 to analyze clutch frequencies (i.e., the multiple incidents in which a nesting sea turtle lays her eggs in a single season) and internesting intervals (i.e., the time between each nesting event).
Using satellite tags, researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) are collecting important data on loggerhead sea turtles and their nesting habits. New Satellite Tagging Research Develops a Census for our Seas