This Week in Sea Turtles

TWiST 9: Go Green, Slow Down, Have a Good Time

Hot topics in sea turtle research and conservation.

Don't listen to what we say, this is actually TWiST #9. We talk to J Nichols, president of the International Sea Turtle Society, about the upcoming sea turtle symposium in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

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Hosts: Michael Coyne and Manjula Tiwari

We had a few questions this time. If you know the answers post a comment or drop us an e-mail twist@seaturtle.org. Attach a voice recording in MP3 format and we'll try to include it in the next show.

Topics

28th Sea Turtle Symposium

Interactive Google Map of Loreto

Leatherback cave painting near Loreto

J Nichols and Jeff Seminoff catch their first turtles near Loreto

See all of J's photos.

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TWiST 8: Morocco & Gabon

Hot topics in sea turtle research and conservation.

Manjula regales us with tales from recent trips to Morocco and Gabon and brings us up to date on sea turtle activities in those countries.

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Hosts: Michael Coyne, Matthew Godfrey and Manjula Tiwari

We had a few questions this time. If you know the answers post a comment or drop us an e-mail twist@seaturtle.org. Attach a voice recording in MP3 format and we'll try to include it in the next show.

Topics

Morocco field visits (nesting, strandings, bycatch)
Mauritania
Cape Verde
Canary Islands
Gabon
TEDs workshop
NMFS training and technology transfer
Testing TEDs

Morocco

Manjula Tiwari (Research Scientist, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, USA ), Mustapha Aksissou (Professor, University of Tetouan) and Said Semmoumy (Biologist, National Institute for Fisheries Research, Casablanca) on top of the range rover from where they had to survey all of Plage Blanche.

Said Semmoumy measuring a stranded loggerhead at Plage Blanche

Kenza Ouakka (left, Biologist, National Institute for Fisheries Research, Laayoune), Manjula Tiwari (center), and Mustapha Aksissou (right) surveying Saharan beaches.

Said Semmoumy and Tabit (right-Chauffeur, National Institute for Fisheries Research, Casablanca) surveying the coastline of southern Morocco.

Not pictured, Hakim Mesfoui, Chef de Centre, National Institute for Fisheries Research, Laayoune.

Gabon

TED Experts, John Michell from NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, USA (left) and Marc Meillat from IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) demonstarting how TEDS work at the Gabonese Fishing Ministry

The audience learning about TEDs from John and Marc.

Links

IFREMER
NOAA
John Mitchell and TEDs
Mustapha Aksissou
Said and Keza and Hakim

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TWiST 7: Proceedings

Hot topics in sea turtle research and conservation.

The controversy surrounding sea turtle symposium proceedings (or lack thereof).

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Don't be confused. We recorded two episodes at once. Episodes 6 and 7 were recorded back to back and I just split the file. In the second half (episode 7) we discuss the recent kerfuffle [1] [2] [3] surrounding the Annual Sea Turtle Symposium proceedings initiated by Peter Pritchard's editorial in MTN 115.

And a funny rebuke of Stephen Colbert and the Colbert Report from The Motley Fool, for not supporting the Great Turtle Race.

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TWiST 6: Michael Has Been Busy

Hot topics in sea turtle research and conservation.

Back to TWiST after a long hiatus. We get you caught up on happenings on SEATURTLE.ORG.

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Hosts: Michael Coyne, Matthew Godfrey and Manjula Tiwari

Links
Google Docs
Del.icio.us - Michael's profile
Digg
The Sea Turtle Store
Changes to the home page
Next exciting thing from seaturtle.org: ISTOR
Stranding database update
Tag clouds
And Manjula pimps the Solomon Islands

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TWiST 5: Recovering Ridleys?

Hot topics in sea turtle research and conservation.

Manjula and Michael take advantage of the annual Board of DIrectors meeting of the International Sea Turtle Society at the National Conservation Training Center near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. This week we talk to Donna Shaver and Thane Wibbels about Kemp's ridley sea turtles and hopeful signs for their recovery.