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.
New UCF Study Examines Leeches for Role in Major Disease of Sea Turtles in Florida The disease fibropapillomatosis causes sea turtles to develop tumors on their bodies, which can limit their health and mobility.
Sea Turtle Nesting Season Winding Down, Some Numbers are Up and It’s Unexpected Green turtle nest counts are the fifth highest recorded since 1982, in a year when their numbers were supposed to be down.
UCF Sea Turtle Project Snags NASA Grant A UCF graduate student will use satellite images and radar data to study how a brown algae (seaweed) impacts the survival of endangered and threatened sea turtles.
Sea Turtle Nesting Season in Full Swing, UCF Researchers Keep Working Despite COVID-19 The UCF Marine Turtle Group asks residents to resist touching sea turtles and not to mark any nests.
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’s Annual Nighttime Sea Turtle Surveys Begin, Team Launches Genetics Project New project aims to help sea turtles in Florida, which have been facing disease, algae blooms and changes in their habitats from erosion on the coastline to plastic in the sea.
UCF Researchers Investigate New Lead in Mysterious Sea Turtle Disease Scientists at the UCF are zeroing in on a new clue to understand a mysterious disease that affects about half the sea turtles in the…
UCF Student Studies Algal Blooms Impact on Sea Turtles in Indian River Lagoon Long before the algal blooms on Florida’s Gulf Coast sparked surprise and outrage, University of Central Florida doctoral student Chris Long was studying the effects…
Satellite Tracking Provides Clues About South Atlantic Sea Turtles’ ‘Lost Years’ A University of Central Florida biologist whose groundbreaking work tracking the movements of sea turtle yearlings in the North Atlantic Ocean attracted international attention has…
