Entries for date "2006"

ISTS: Using hydroacustics to predict habitat use of foraging juvenile loggerhead turtles in Baja Californai Sur, Mexico

Wingfield, DK, SH Peckham, DA Croll, WJ Nichols, K Newton, and E Flores. 2006. Using hydroacustics to predict habitat use of foraging juvenile loggerhead turtles in Baja Californai Sur, Mexico. Submitted paper, 26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Island of Crete, Greece, April 2006. USING HYDROACOUSTICS TO…

ISTS: Translating experimental results into fleet operations: Lessons in mitigating the bycatch of sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals

Crowder, L.B., T. Cox, R. Lewison, B. Wallace, R. Zydelis, W.J. Nichols, C. Safina, and A. Read. 2006. Translating experimental results into fleet operations: Lessons in mitigating the bycatch of sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals. Submitted paper, 26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Island of Crete,…

One-armed traveler

Back from a wonderful week of work in Baja, helping out with an Animal Planet film. We shared air and sea with mantas, whales, sea turtles, sharks, sea lions, reef fish...and even an intertidal rattlesnake. It’s good to work with people who are both skilled at what they do and…

Sunset kayak on Taylor Creek

At the end of a productive day of meetings with the Global Bycatch Assessment Project four of us dropped kayaks in Taylor Creek. And we paddled until sunset. It’s been since 1992 that I paddled along the barrier islands in North Carolina as a Duke graduate student. In those days…