Entries for tag "migration"
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 5, 2012
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The "L" Word Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences and founder of Blue MInd Life. Have you ever wondered why the sounds of ocean waves are so soothing? Have you sought solace in a walk in the woods? Or found joy in the call of a…
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wallacejnichols
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April 15, 2007
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Introduction A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9,000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in Voyage of the Lonely Turtle encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in…
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 30, 2002
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Academy herpetologist Wallace J. Nichols is working with fisherman and using the latest technologies to help save threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerhead turtles have swum our oceans for 100 million years, inspiring folklore, songs, and art from Japan to California. Yet, not much is known about them. Nichols knows why.…
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wallacejnichols
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July 19, 1999
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Like their cousin the tortoise, sea turtles may take their time, but they are remarkably persistent, according to new evidence from an Earthwatch sponsored researcher. A tag was recovered in Baja, Mexico, from the flipper of a Loggerhead sea turtle that was tagged in Japan. The tag confirms that endangered…
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wallacejnichols
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April 1, 1998
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Resendiz, A., Resendiz, B., Nichols, WJ., Seminoff, JA., Kamezaki, N., First confirmed east-west transpacific movement of a loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, released in Baja California, Mexico, Pacific Science, Volume 52, Number 2, Pages 151-153, April 1998. In July 1994 a loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) was released from the central…
