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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 129 October 2010

MTN129 Cover
Olive ridley hatchling on Darcy Island, Australia - see pages 9-11 (photo: Roy Teale).

IN THIS ISSUE: PDF download Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Version

Editorials

mtn129p1.shtmlPlastic Pollution: An Ocean Emergency - Colette Wabnitz & Wallace J. Nichols

mtn129p5.shtmlThe Zero Counts - Marc Girondot

Articles

mtn129p7.shtmlRadar Beacon Balls as a Recovery Aid in Field Studies - Anton D. Tucker, Thane Wibbels & Jennifer Estes Layton

mtn129p9.shtmlOlive Ridley Turtle Presence and Nesting Records for Western Australia - Robert I. T. Prince, Michael P. Jensen, Daniel Oades & the Bardi Jawi Rangers

mtn129p11.shtmlLong Distance Migrations of Hawksbills Tagged as Juveniles at Aldabra Atoll: Confirmation from Digital Photography - Jeanne A. Mortimer, Justin Gerlach & Philip Summerton

mtn129p14.shtmlIdentifying and Mitigating Hatchling Disorientation on Nesting Beaches - Thiago Z. Serafini, Kellyn Carneiro, Mariene F. Lima, Michelle J. de Luca, Manuela R. B. Bosquirolli & Eduardo de C. Saliés

mtn129p16.shtmlIndian Ocean Crossing by a Juvenile Hawksbill Turtle - Scott D. Whiting, Ismail Macrae, Wendy Murray, Robert Thorn, Trish Flores, Catharine Joynson-Hicks & Seleman Hashim

mtn129p17.shtmlUsing Google Earth to Confirm Marine Turtle Nesting: The Makran Coast (Pakistan) & The Hadramout (Yemen) - Brian Groombridge

mtn129p19.shtmlHawksbill Turtles in Peruvian Coastal Fisheries - J. Alfaro-Shigueto, J.C. Mangel, C. Caceres, J.A. Seminoff, A. Gaos & I. YaÒez

Announcements

mtn129p21.shtmlFirst Announcement: Southeast Regional Sea Turtle Meeting, Jekyll Island, GA (USA) February 1 - 4, 2012 - Kim Sonderman

mtn129p22.shtmlRECENT PUBLICATIONS


Editors: Editorial Board

Lisa M. Campbell
Nicholas School of the Environment
and Earth Sciences, Duke University
135 Duke Marine Lab Road
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Managing Editor:

Michael S. Coyne
SEATURTLE.ORG
1 Southampton Place
Durham, NC 27705 USA

Matthew H. Godfrey
NC Sea Turtle Project
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
1507 Ann St.
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Founding Editor:

Nicholas Mrosovsky
University of Toronto, Canada

Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti)
George Balazs
Angela Formia
Colin Limpus
Nicholas J. Pilcher
Manjula Tiwari
Kartik Shanker
Jeanette Wyneken

This issue of the MTN was converted to HTML by ALan Rees

Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from the following individuals: Michael Guinea, Kirstin Dobbs, Michael Barry Gray, Alison Rieser and organisations: Conservation International, International Sea Turtle Society, IUCN - Marine Turtle Specialist Group, Sirtrack Ltd., US National Marine Fisheries Service-Office of Protected Resources, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Wildlife Computers. The MTN-Online is produced and managed by Michael Coyne.

The opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily shared by the Editors, the Editorial Board, the University of Exeter, or any individuals or organizations providing financial support. Produced with assistance from:

NOAA WESTPAC MTSG Conservation International
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