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September 25, 2009
August 28, 2009
Poundnetting
As summer ends, in-water turtle fieldwork begins
January 05, 2007
Missing!
September 15, 2006
Fieldwork
June 09, 2006
Full spectrum
March 28, 2006
Annual meeting
March 27, 2006
Yet still mud on the beach
February 27, 2006
Visiting a Hopper Dredge
January 31, 2006
Riding to the stream...
December 05, 2005
Mystery turtle
October 23, 2005
Late season hatchling release
October 20, 2005
Trinidad in October
October 03, 2005
Find the turtle
September 29, 2005
Still mud on the beach...
September 07, 2005
Fishing
August 29, 2005
Peanut (the play)
July 18, 2005
WGC
June 20, 2005
Puzzling
June 15, 2005
Male turtle
May 30, 2005
Check up
May 19, 2005
Last stand
April 15, 2005
Crepe Bus
April 05, 2005
March 21, 2005
Foggy beach
February 26, 2005
Dredges and boosters
January 27, 2005
To the sea, part III
January 25, 2005
How to get rid of a dead loggerhead
January 24, 2005
To the Sea, Part II
January 18, 2005
To till or not to till
January 01, 2005
December 15, 2004
Mud on the beach
December 11, 2004
What's in the bags?
December 08, 2004
Early December
November 18, 2004
Pipes on the beach
November 16, 2004
That time of year...Part II
November 09, 2004
That time of year...
October 30, 2004
Green alert
October 26, 2004
Winding down
October 05, 2004
A view from above
August 25, 2004
Tag surprise
August 17, 2004
On the Sound
August 11, 2004
Wee turtles
July 02, 2004
Not quite a sea turtle
June 18, 2004
In the line of duty
May 15, 2004
Crazy day
May 10, 2004
Reptilomorphs
April 09, 2004
Cleaning a turtle
March 26, 2004
Needle in a haystack
March 09, 2004
Cleanup
March 06, 2004
On the way to Tortuguero
February 06, 2004
Wrong time of year
December 04, 2003
Logistics
November 19, 2003
Bird's eye view
November 14, 2003
No turtles?
September 28, 2003
Dynamic beaches
September 22, 2003
When there is no power
September 20, 2003
After the hurricane
September 17, 2003
There is a hurricane coming
August 30, 2003
Puzzle
August 21, 2003
A stranger in a strange land
August 01, 2003
Mystery photo
I found this photo wedged in the back of a drawer of an old desk that I scavanged from the NOAA-Beaufort lab on the day they were cleaning out some old storage space. There were some other photos with this one, although not of turtles. Judging from the style of clothes and haircuts of people in the other photos, I think they were taken in the late 1960s.
It is difficult to gauge the size of the loggerhead in this photo. What strikes me is the relatively low number of barnacles on its carapace. I have the impression that most of the loggerheads I see have many more barnacles than this one. Then again I mostly see sick, injured or dead stranded turtles who may be most susceptible to colonization by epibionts than healthier turtles. There is also the possibility that this photo was taken elsewhere, perhaps even another ocean basin.
July 29, 2003
Stormy Weather
July 23, 2003
Turtle Quiz
July 20, 2003
Not in Kansas anymore
Hawksbills are rarely seen in North Carolina waters (less than one per year on average). So what was a small, year-old hawksbill doing up near the North Carolina/Viginia border earlier this year?
May 22, 2003
behind a photo
May 20, 2003
Negative can be positive, sort of
April 21, 2003
Funky ghost crabs
April 12, 2003
Such a long journey....
March 29, 2003
After Kuala Lumpur
March 20, 2003
Lots of activity in KL
It is the third day of presentations, and there is much hustle and bustle left in the symposium. In a few hours, the final oral presentations will conclude, to be followed by the plenary session and then the banquet. I have no idea what kind of floor show is planned for the banquet, but if it is anything like the social, it will be amazing.
There have also been side workshops going on, including the Mediterranean meeting, the Latin American meeting, the African meeting, the freshwater turtle and tortoise meeting, not to mention the far smaller and more intimate discussions among participants about collaborative projects, either ongoing or planned for the future.
The live auction was held last night, and the big news is that Frank Paladino indeed has a pit tag inside him, although contrary to rumour it is not in the rump nor was it done during the live auction in 2002. A swipe of a scanner on his midriff confirmed the PIT tag, following which he offered anyone else to verify the tag with a scanner for a $10 donation.
Tomorrow is the Marine Turtle Specialist Group meeting, followed by a special workshop on tagging. Many, particularly the students, are not thinking further than the banquet tonight, when the awards for best student presentation will be awarded.... who will it be this time?
March 15, 2003
Kuala Lumpur
Arrived!
March 07, 2003
Albino or no?
March 06, 2003
Adversity
March 02, 2003
None too soon
February 23, 2003
Another hazard...
February 20, 2003
February 18, 2003
Heavenly
Why would Johan bring his binoculars on the beach at night? To look at the constellations and star clusters, of course! I am sure everyone has his or her own personal experience of some amazing nighttime celestial event. Mine was seeing a burning ship on the seaward horizon that slowly raised itself up to become a fiery orange slice of moon.
February 17, 2003
Common but cool
February 14, 2003
Ubiquity
February 08, 2003
Chupacabra
February 07, 2003
Terrestrial migration.
February 05, 2003
Favorite
February 04, 2003
little glitches
February 01, 2003
Destiny?
January 31, 2003
A tale of two beaches
January 30, 2003
Apology
I admit it: I have a turtle tattoo. 
