Marine Turtle Research

An important part of the Center's research mission is to provide the scientific foundation for conservation and management actions to recover depleted populations of sea turtles. More...

News and Highlights

• April 24, 2013
  

  PIFSC Scientists Expanding Knowledge of Marine Turtles in South Pacific

  PIFSC biologists Kyle Van Houtan and T. Todd Jones traveled to Rose Island National Wildlife Refuge in American Samoa to study marine turtles there. More...
• November 26, 2012
  

  News on PIFSC Sea Turtle Research

  In April, Shawn Murakawa, a biologist in the Marine Turtle Research Program (MTRP) successfully defended her University of Hawaii Master's thesis in Animal Sciences. Her thesis was entitled "Determination of growth spurts in Hawaiian green sea turtles using skeletochronology and histological analysis of gonads". More...
• August 17, 2012
  

  Marine Turtle Research Program Engaged in Research Projects at Home and Abroad

  PIFSC scientists have been actively pursuing sea turtle research projects on the home front and in the wider area of the North Pacific. More...

Recent Staff Publications

• April 30, 2013

  Behavior of juvenile green turtles in a coastal neritic habitat: validating time-depth-temperature records using visual observations

  Francke DL, Hargrove SA, Vetter EW, Winn CD, Balazs GH, Hyrenbach KD
  [2013] Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 444:55-65. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2013.03.011

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• March 25, 2013

  Insights on the demography of cryptic nesting by green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the main Hawaiian Islands from genetic relatedness analysis

  Frey A, Dutton PH, Balazs GH
  [2013] Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 442: 80-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2013.01.030

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• March 5, 2013

  A simple humane method to euthanize a sea turtle

  Work TM, Balazs GH
  [2013] Marine Turtle Newsletter 136: 5-6

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• October 10, 2012

  Resource requirements of the Pacific leatherback turtle population

  Jones TT, Bostrom BL, Hastings MD, Van Houtan KS, Pauly D, Jones DR
  [2012] PLoS ONE 7(10): e45447. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045447

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• October 1, 2012

  Age and growth rates of Hawaiian hawskbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) using skeletochronology

  Snover ML, Balazs GH, Murakawa SKK, Hargrove SK, Rice MR, Seitz WA
  [2013] Marine Biology 160: 37-46. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-2058-7

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• September 6, 2012

  Report of The Sea Turtle Longline Fishery Post-release Mortality Workshop, November 15-16, 2011

  Swimmer Y, Gilman E, Organizers
  [2012] U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-34, 32 p

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