UCF Researchers Advance Knowledge About Juvenile Sea Turtles’ Early Life Stage, Informing Conservation Efforts These findings challenge existing hypotheses and provide important data for assessing risks from human activity and informing conservation efforts.
UCF Student Receives National Acclaim for Project Protecting Leatherback Sea Turtles Callie Veelenturf’s conservation work has been featured on the front page of The Washington Post and on CBS News and in Smithsonian magazine.
UCF Sea Turtle Research Highlighted for 50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act The green sea turtle population at the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge is an Endangered Species Act success story, due in large part to the work of UCF’s Marine Turtle Research Group.
New Genetic Clues Could be Key to Saving Sea Turtles from Mysterious Disease UCF researchers have discovered 116 new-to-science alleles, or gene variants, that could play a role in protecting sea turtles from a tumor-causing disease that limits mobility.
Florida Sea Turtles Get a Boost with Gift of New Boat The Marine Turtle Research Group has received a much-needed new boat that offers improved safety and research capabilities.
From the ‘Smithsonian’ Magazine to the Tonight Show, UCF Research has a Big Year in the News UCF’s Top 10 research stories focused on work that battled threats and sought out opportunities to advance us as a species.
Hurricane Dorian Washes Out More than 8,000 Sea Turtle Nests The storm hit at the peak of green sea turtle hatching season, washing out an estimated 45 percent of the threatened species’ nests.
UCF Students to Premiere Animated Short Films This year’s animated short films shed light on a speech disorder and sea turtle nesting. They premiere Monday, April 23, at the Center for Emerging Media.
Hurricane Exposes and Washes Away Thousands of Sea Turtle Nests Hurricane Irma took a devastating toll on incubating sea turtle nests in the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most important loggerhead and…
Biologist and Genetics Expert Team Up to Solve Turtle Health Mystery Almost 50 percent of the green sea turtles in the Indian River Lagoon have tumors all over their bodies and despite data going back more…
