Monitoring green sea turtles in the San Gabriel River of Southern California, USA

Lynn Marie Massey¹, Shannon Penna¹, Eric Zahn², Dan Lawson¹, Cassandra Davis³

1: NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region; 2: Tidal Influence, Inc.; 3: Aquarium of the Pacific

^Community monitoring, conservation and securing the future of flatback turtles (Natator depressus) in Port Hedland, Western Australia.

Kelly Ann Howlett

Care For Hedland Environmental Association Inc, Australia

Community-based sea turtle monitoring in pantai sausapor nature reserve and its surrounding: an approach to streamline sea turtle conservation management

Muhammad Wahyu Hasibuan¹, Hormes Ulimpa¹, Yusdi Lamatenggo³, Mohammad Fajrin Ramadhon², Ratna Ningsih Kuswara²

1: Natural Resources Conservation Agency of West Papua; 2: Fauna & Flora Indonesia Programme; 3: Department of Youth, Sports, Tourism and Creative Economy of Southwest Papua Province

Sea turtle ambassadors for the Gulf: place-based learning through field experiences for teachers and students

Yasmeen Fadlallah

Inwater Research Group, United States of America

^"Warriors of the Rainbow" educating future leaders and decision makers

Damaris Marin-Smith, Rozino Gene Smith

Campamento Tortuguero Ayotlcalli A.C, Mexico

Citizen science participation in monitoring the sea turtle population of Fitzroy Island, Cairns, Australia through photo-ID recapture techniques

Helen Kate Young¹, Amir Patel², Cassie Smith¹

1: Oceans 2 Earth Volunteers, Australia; 2: Aow Thai Marine Ecology Centre, Thailand

Too much science and little communication: The art of sharing information and values through storytelling

Georgina Zamora Quílez

Sea Turtle Conservancy

*Decoding the internesting movements of marine turtles using a fine-scale behavioral state approach

Armando J B Santos^1,2, Joshua Cullen¹, Daniel H G Vieira², Eduardo H S M Lima², Victoria Quennessen³, Claudio Bellini⁴, Erik A P Santos⁴, Renata Ramos⁵, Mariana M P B Fuentes¹

1: Florida State University, United States of America; 2: Fundacao Projeto Tamar, Brazil; 3: Oregon State University, United States of America; 4: Centro Tamar/ICMBio, Brazil; 5: ENGEO – Soluções Integradas em Meio Ambiente

Insights into movement of green turtles at Ningaloo from satellite tagging

Mat Vanderklift, Richard Pillans, Nick Mortimer, Wayne Rochester

CSIRO

*Inter- and post-nesting movement patterns of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) nesting in southeastern Florida, USA

Derek M. Aoki^1,2,7, Justin R. Perrault¹, Annie Page², Kelly R. Stewart³, Scott Benson^4,5, Christopher R. Sasso⁶, William R. Bishop¹, George L. Shillinger^7,8

1: Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Juno Beach, Florida, USA; 2: Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA; 3: The Ocean Foundation, Washington, DC, USA; 4: Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Moss Landing, CA, USA; 5: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University, Moss Landing, CA, USA; 6: NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, Florida, USA; 7: Upwell Turtles, Monterey, California, USA; 8: MigraMar, Bodega Bay, California, USA

*The journey of loggerhead turtles from the Northwest Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea according to the stable isotope ratios of C, N and O of their bones

Alessandra Cani, Cristina Besén Muelas, Carlos Carreras, Marta Pascual, Luis Cardona

University of Barcelona, Spain

*Numerical models unveil the “Lost Years” of loggerhead sea turtles.

Tony Candela^1,2,3, Patrick Lehodey¹, Florence Dell'Amico³, Frederic Vandeperre^4,5, Philippe Gaspar¹, George L. Shillinger²

1: Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, France; 2: Upwell, Monterey, CA, USA; 3: Aquarium La Rochelle, Centre d'Etudes et de Soins pour les Tortues Marines, La Rochelle, France; 4: Institute of Marine Sciences, Okeanos, University of the Azores, Horta, Portugal; 5: Institute of Marine Research, IMAR, Horta, Portugal

*Decoding the mysterious distribution patterns of juvenile green turtles during their "lost years" through the application of species distribution modeling.

Matthew Larsen¹, Kate Mansfield¹, Katrina Phillips²

1: University of Central Florida, United States of America; 2: University of Massachusetts - Amherst, United States of America

*Migratory behavior and foraging ecology of Hawaiian hawksbill turtles

Alison J. Meeth^1,2, Alexander R. Gaos³, Summer L. Martin³, Shaya Honarvar^1,2

1: School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96822, USA; 2: Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96822, USA; 3: NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, 1845 Wasp Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96818, USA

*Maternal transfer of microplastics in Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta): effects on the embryo health conditions

Erica Trotta¹, Giulia Chemello¹, Valentina Notarstefano¹, Luana Papetti², Ludovica Di Renzo³, Marco Matiddi⁴, Cecilia Silvestri⁴, Giorgia Gioacchini¹

1: Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy; 2: CRTM TartAmare Onlus; 3: Istituto Zooprofilattico Dell'Abruzzo e Del Molise "G. Caporale"; 4: Centro Nazionale per La Rete Nazionale Dei Laboratori CN-LAB, Istituto Superiore per La Ricerca e La Protezione Ambientale (ISPRA)

*Investigating the distribution, bioaccumulation and systemic translocation of microplastics in tissues and organs of the Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)

Leah Costello¹, Jose Luis Crespo-Picazo², Cyrill Bussy³, Ian Kane⁴, Holly Shiels¹

1: Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 2: Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain; 3: Nanomedicine Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 4: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

*Heavy metal accumulation in captive-reared sea turtles at a sanctuary off the coast of Rayong province, Thailand

Sean T. Richards^1,2,3, Thanaphan Chomcheun⁴, Thanida Haetrakul⁵, Sirawich Srisiri⁵, Nitiwadee Keschumras⁵, Nantarika Chansue⁵, William Hayes¹, Stephen G. Dunbar^1,2,3

1: EBS, School of Medicine, LLU, Loma Linda, CA 92350; 2: Marine Research Group, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350; 3: Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR, Inc.), Loma Linda, CA 92350; 4: Eastern Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Center, Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Rayong, 21170, Thailand; 5: Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animal Research Center (VMAARC), Bangkok, 10330, Thailand

*Metabolic heating in Green Turtle Hatchlings during nest escaping activity

Tuan Emilia Noor, Mohd Uzair Rusli

Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

*Prevalence, distribution and etiology of fibropapillomatosis in immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) of the West Indies

Pierre Lelong^1,2, Damien Chevallier¹

1: CNRS-BOREA, Martinique (France); 2: Université des Antilles, Campus de Schoelcher, Martinique (France)

Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from Mexican Caribbean present oxidative stress responses to environmental variability.

Vanessa Labrada Martagón¹, Nadia L. Islas Madrid², Bárbara Cúmez Caté², Fernando A. Muñoz Tenería³, Montserrat Solé⁴, Tania Zenteno Savín²

1: Laboratorio Ecología de la Salud, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí; 2: Laboratorio de Estrés Oxidativo, Programa de Planeación Ambiental y Conservación, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste; 3: Laboratorio de Inmunología, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí; 4: Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC

*Human-wildlife interactions and their consequences for sea turtle health in Malaysia

Syamsyahidah Samsol¹, Mohd Uzair Rusli¹, Jeethvendra Kirishnamoortie^2,4, Hideaki Nishizawa³, Juanita Joseph^2,5, Tsung-Hsien Li⁶

1: Sea Turtle Research Unit, Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia; 2: Borneo Marine Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia; 3: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan; 4: Tropical Research and Conservation Centre, Pom Pom Island, Sabah, Malaysia; 5: Small Islands Research Centre, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia; 6: National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan

*Physiological changes in blood parameters of sea turtles across nesting episodes

Afif Aiman Azmi, Faizah Aplop, Mohd Uzair Rusli

Sea Turtle Research Unit, Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Endoscopy and rectal enema for fecal collection in wild sea turtles (Chelonia mydas, Eretmochelys imbricata) in a field setting

Kristina L. Kaleel¹, Patricia L. Secoura², Juan Pablo Muñoz‐Pérez^3,4,5,6, Daniela Alarcón‐Ruales^3,4,5, Felipe Vallejo⁶, Cristina Miranda⁶, Gregory A. Lewbart^2,3,4, Kathy A. Townsend⁵, Shelly L. Vaden²

1: University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA; 2: The Department of Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; 3: Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales (COCIBA), Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador; 4: Galápagos Science Center (GSC), Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) & UNC‐Chapel Hill Galápagos Science Center (GSC), Galápagos, Ecuador; 5: School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast UniSC, Hervey Bay, Australia; 6: Equilibrio Azul, Puerto Lopez, Ecuador

Increasing hypoxia progressively slows early embryonic development in the green turtle

David Morton Adams¹, Sean A. Williamson¹, Roger G. Evans^2,3, Richard D. Reina¹

1: School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Australia; 2: Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia; 3: Pre-clinical Critical Care Unit, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

*Loggerhead sea turtle detection of ammonia odors: sensitivity to terrestrial stimuli

Lillian G. Prince, Kayla M. Goforth, Jadyn M. Sethna, Kenneth J. Lohmann, Catherine M. F. Lohmann

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

*Evaluating the relationship between immune function and reproductive success in nesting turtles

Tiffany M Dawson, Kate L Mansfield

University of Central Florida, United States of America

*Effects of Incubation Factors on Loggerhead Hatchling Condition in the Gulf of Mexico

Allyssa Rose Hennessey^1,2, Jake Andrew Lasala², Frank V Paladino¹

1: Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America; 2: Mote Marine Laboratory, Florida, United States of America

*Acoustic monitoring of nest escaping activity in sea turtle hatchlings

Pey Chen Lim¹, Hideaki Nishizawa², Mohd Uzair Rusli¹

1: Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu; 2: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Impacts of incubation temperature on loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtle hatchling morphology and hydrodynamics

Alexis Moyle, Sarah Milton

Florida Atlantic University, United States of America

Variations in mean brevetoxin concentrations by tissue type in three Florida sea turtle species

Raschelli A. Linz, Sarah L. Milton

Florida Atlantic University, United States of America

Maximising captive releases of leatherback turtles using insights from simulated growth and reproduction models

Anna Antonia Ortega^1,2,4, Nina Marn³, Nicola Mitchell^1,2, George Shillinger⁴

1: The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Australia; 2: The Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Australia; 3: Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia; 4: Upwell Turtles, California, United States of America

Non-invasive heart rate measurement of green turtle embryos

Hideaki Nishizawa¹, Tomoatsu Ijichi¹, Shota Hyodo¹, Satomi Kondo²

1: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University; 2: Everlasting Nature of Asia (ELNA), Ogasawara Marine Center

Plastic ingested by green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) with Fibropapillomatosis (FP)

Rachel Theresa Southards, Heather A. Seaman, Sarah L. Milton

Florida Atlantic University, United States of America

Histological reconstruction of the olive ridley sea turtle hatchling head

Jesus Rodolfo Martin del Campo¹, Joy Richman²

1: Universidad del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico; 2: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Why the long face? Hawksbill foraging strategies when sympatric with green turtles

Jeanette Wyneken¹, Michael Salmon¹, Tommy Cutt², Don McGleish², Alexander Gaos³

1: Florida Atlantic University, United States of America; 2: Marine Institute Maui Ocean Center; 3: Marine Turtle Biology & Assessment Program NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

Novel biomarkers of environmental genotoxicity in green turtle (Chelonia mydas) on the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Aida M. Guevara Meléndez¹, Mauricio Comas García², Leticia Yáñez Estrada³, Vanessa Labrada Martagón⁴

1: Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de El Salvador; 2: Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud y Biomedicina, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí; 3: Laboratorio de Género, Salud y Ambiente, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí; 4: Laboratorio Ecología de la Salud, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Epibionts associated with nesting females of black turtles (Chelonia mydas agassizii) from the breeding population of Michoacan, Mexico

Cutzi Bedolla-Ochoa^1,2, Carlos Delgado-Trejo^1,2, Miguel Angel Reyes-López², Fátima Yedith Camacho-Sánchez²

1: Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México; 2: Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, campus Reynosa, Instituto Politécnico Nacional. México.

Impact of multidrug-resistant bacteria on sea turtles and the marine environment

Daphne Wrobel Goldberg¹, Fabio Parra Sellera², Danny Fuentes-Castillo³

1: Projeto Albatroz, Cabo Frio, Brazil; 2: School of Veterinary Medicine, Metropolitan University of Santos, Santos, SP, Brazil,; 3: Laboratorio de Microbiología Veterinaria, Departamento de Patología y Medicina Preventiva, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias Universidad de Concepción

Report of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) impaction due to mangrove propagules in the Philippines

Lowee Lyn Castillo¹, Sharah M. Barredo¹, Marco Acosta², Mario Ronda², Geraldine Benavente², Ian Echanes³, Jessica Labaja¹, Kurt Ivan Mariano¹, Glen Gonzales Rebong⁴, Frances Camille Rivera⁵, Rizza Araceli F. Salinas⁶, Alessandro Ponzo¹

1: Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, Philippines; 2: Port Barton Marine Park (PBMP), San Vicente Palawan, Philippines; 3: Municipal Agriculturist Office, San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines; 4: Palawan Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Center - Crocodile Farm in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan; 5: Oceanus Conservation, Manila, Philippines; 6: Department of Environment and Natural Resources Biodiversity Management Bureau, Quezon City, Manila.

Clinical and pathological findings of a geriatric green turtle maintained in captivity with restricted water circulation: a case report

Chayanis Daochai¹, Saransiri Nuanmanee², Rattanakorn Phakphien³, Khunanont Thongcham³, Ratchakul Wiriyaprom¹, Watcharapol Suyapoh¹

1: Faculty of Veterinary Science, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand; 2: Songkhla Aquatic Animal Health Research and Development Center, Department of Fisheries, Thailand; 3: Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center (Lower Gulf of Thailand), Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Thailand

Evaluating the sub-lethal effects of red tide blooms and brevetoxin exposure on nesting loggerhead sea turtles

Kelly A. Sloan¹, Andrew Glinsky², Jack Brzoza¹, Nicole I. Stacy³, Paul Julian⁴, Simona A. Ceriani⁵, Susan Fogelson⁶, Justin R. Perrault⁷

1: Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, United States of America; 2: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; 3: College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida; 4: Everglades Foundation; 5: Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute; 6: Fishhead Labs; 7: Loggerhead Marineline Center

Characterisation of gastrointestinal tract disorders in relation to marine debris in sea turtles using postmortem computed tomography

Brian Chin Wing Kot, Tabris Yik To Chung, Henry Chun Lok Tsui

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China

*Characterizing harmful algal bloom-associated biotoxin concentrations and chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 presence in the blood of nesting leatherbacks in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA

Raschelli Anna-Elizabeth Linz¹, Annie Page², Justin R. Perrault³, Sarah L. Milton¹

1: Florida Atlantic University, United States of America; 2: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, United States of America; 3: Loggerhead Marinelife Center, United States of America

Implications of low hatchling production from hatcheries for sea turtle populations in India

Arushi Arora, Jayant Pande, Andrea D. Phillott

FLAME University, Pune, India

Protecting Indonesia's largest green sea turtle nesting rookery: A two-decade retrospective and key insights

Thomas Reischig¹, Muhamad Jayuli², Rusli Andar², Meriussoni Zai², Jatmiko Wiwoho², Hiltrud Cordes¹

1: Turtle Foundation, Cologne, Germany; 2: Yayasan Penyu Indonesia, Denpasar, Indonesia

People’s perceptions on the conservation of sea turtles and their associated habitats along the Ponta do Ouro-Kosi Bay Transfrontier Conservation Area, Mozambique and South Africa, south-eastern Africa

Cristina Louro¹, Ronel Nel¹, Linda Harris¹, Sue Ranger², Peter Richardson², Bronwyn James³

1: Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; 2: Marine Conservation Society, United Kingdom; 3: Nature Connect, South Africa

Community-led conservation: A decade of success in marine turtle volunteer programs in Vietnam

Thi Thu Hien Bui, The Cuong Chu

Marine and Coastal Program, IUCN Vietnam

Protecting sea turtles through the Bern Convention

Nikolaos Simantiris, Konstantina Andreanidou, George Sampson

MEDASSET-Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles, Greece

Accuracy of local communities in identifying leatherback turtle nest locations at Jeen Yessa beach in the Bird's Head region of Papua, Indonesia

Petrus Pieter Batubara¹, Deasy Natalia Lontoh¹, Yusup Adrian Jentewo¹, Yairus Swabra¹, Arfiandra Andika Wanaputra¹, Fitryanti Pakiding^1,2, Manjula Tiwari³

1: Science for Conservation Program, Research and Community Service Institute of Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314, Indonesia; 2: Department of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314, Indonesia; 3: Ocean Ecology Network, Research Affiliate of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California 92037, USA

InGeNi-Caretta project: management of emerging nesting sites of loggerhead sea turtles, based on scientific knowledge and coordination between Mediterranean Spanish regions.

Irene Alvarez de Quevedo¹, Mireia Aguilera¹, Eduardo Belda², Luis Cardona³, Carles Carreras⁴, Adolfo Marco⁵, Marta Pascual⁴, Cinta Pegueroles⁴, Jesús Tomás⁶, Elena Abella¹

1: BETA Tech Center, TECNIO Network, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), C. de Roda 70, 08500, Vic, Spain.; 2: Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió de Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain; 3: Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Av. Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; 4: Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and IrBio, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain; 5: Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, C/ Américo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla. Spain; 6: Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, University of Valencia, Apdo. 22085, E-46071, Valencia, Spain

From Poachers to Protectors: A community based approach on sea turtle conservation in the Lamu Archipelago, Kenya

Annabelle Brooks¹, Teresa Jahangir², Famau Shukry², Atwaa Salim², Carol Korschen²

1: The Manda Projects, Manda, Lamu, Kenya; 2: Lamu Marine Conservation Trust, Shela, Lamu, Kenya

Ras Baridi Turtle Conservation Initiative (RBTCI): a comprehensive Saudi Arabian approach for long-term conservation

Abdulrazaq Alatawi, Ali Algohane, Ali Alfaidi, Roxanne Whelan, Ricardo Ramalho, Hector Barrios-Garrido

Beacon Development, KAUST Innovation. KAUST. Saudi Arabia.

A comprehensive review of sea turtle nesting rookeries along Bangladesh coast

Mohammad Zahirul Islam^1,3, Mohammad Sazedul Islam², M. Foysal Ehsan⁴, Rafat Adnan⁵, Fariat Muntaha⁶

1: Marinelife Alliance, Bangladesh,; 2: Wilderness Conservation Research Centre, Australia; 3: Tropical Marinelife Center, Bangladesh; 4: EnvirosoftBD, Bangladesh; 5: Wilderness Conservation, Bangladesh; 6: Chattogram Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh

*Evaluating the sustainability of common approaches to sea turtle conservation.

Amanda Elaine Robbins¹, Ronel Nel¹, Andrea D Phillott², Andrea Saayman³, Judy Mann-Lang⁴

1: Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa; 2: FLAME University, Pune, India; 3: North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; 4: Two Ocean Aquarium Foundation, South Africa

*Addressing bycatch through fishermen’s wives and children in the Kingdom of Morocco

Wafae Benhardouze¹, Mustapha Aksissou¹, John Dutton², Manjula Tiwari³

1: FACULTY OF SCIENCES TETOUAN, Morocco; 2: Ocean Ecology Network, California, USA; 3: Ocean Ecology Network, Research Affiliate of NOAA—Southwest Fisheries Science Center, California, USA

Imagine that you are a sea turtle: Development of an early childhood learning activity

Andrea D. Phillott¹, Aditi Renake¹, Anuradha Batabyal¹, Karishma Modi², Melissa Coyle³, Prerana Shet⁴, Seh Ling Long⁵, Viraj Shah¹, Wid Zuriana Wan Sulaiman⁵, Zameela Ahmed⁶

1: FLAME University, Pune, India; 2: Dakshin Endeavours, Bengaluru, India; 3: Independent Consultant, Rockhampton, Australia; 4: National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India; 5: Perhentian Turtle Project, Perhentian Islands, Malaysia; 6: Live & Learn Environmental Education, Malé, Maldives

Addressing online trade of turtleshell products in Indonesia

Joana Nicolau¹, Muhamad Jayuli², Rosek Nursaid³, Hiltrud Cordes⁴, Meriussoni Zai², Thomas Reischig⁴, Jatmiko Wiwoho²

1: Fundação Tartaruga; 2: Yayasan Penyu Indonesia; 3: Profauna; 4: Turtle Foundation

"Show us the turtle, learn the story": An interactive platform for personalised engagement with sea turtle conservation in a Mediterranean tourist hotspot

Kostas Papafitsoros^1,2, Vincent Tarrit^2,3, Lukas Adam⁴, Anna Stamatiou⁵, Galini Samlidou², Aliki Panagopoulou²

1: Queen Mary University of London; 2: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece; 3: School of Engineering and Management Vaud; 4: Czech Technical University; 5: MEDASSET, Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles

Improved knowledge and capacity to combat sea turtle illegal trade, Cabo Verde

Alberto Queiruga¹, Albert Taxonera², Ukie Resende³, Christophe Eizaguirre⁴, Olavo da Luz²

1: Biosfera, Cabo Verde; 2: Projeto Biodiversidade, Cabo Verde; 3: Fundação Tartaruga, Cabo Verde; 4: University Queen Mary of London, England

Communicating Without Borders Or How to overcome language, cultural and proximity barriers to increase a project’s outreach

Efi Starfa¹, Wassim Amdrous², Nikolaos Simantiris¹

1: MEDASSET-Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles, Greece; 2: WWF North Africa, Tunisia

Update on community outreach towards sea turtle conservation at Kalpitiya peninsula of Sri Lanka from 2020 to 2023.

Lalith Ekanayake, Yamuna Karunarathna, Kavishka Ekanayake, M.J.A. Nazeer

Bio Conservation Society (BCSL), Sri Lanka

Reducing poaching in Sal Island: a wide approach beyond traditional beach patrols

Artur Lopes, Kirsten Fairweather, Berta Renom, Anice Lopes, Albert Taxonera

Associação Projeto Biodiversidade, Sal Island, Cabo Verde

*Seatru public viewing lab: bridging science and society

Tuan Emilia Tuan Mohd Noor¹, Nur Izyani Amrang^1,2, Lyvia Chong¹, Nadhirah Syafiqah Suhaimi¹, Mohd Uzair Rusli¹

1: Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia.; 2: Conservation Management Solutions SDN BHD, Institue of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia.

The first Workshop on Veterinary Medicine for Sea Turtles in Colombia

Gilberto Rafael Borges Guzmán^1,2,3, Albert Bassols Garcia³, Karen Pabón-Aldana^4,5, Karen Novoa^4,5, Sandra Barrera^4,5, Jorge Bernal Gutiérrez^4,5, Aminta Jauregui^4,5

1: Fundación AVISTA, Venezuela; 2: Fundación Científica Los Roques, Venezuela; 3: Asociación Mexicana de Veterinarios de Tortugas; 4: Programa de Conservación de Tortugas y Mamíferos Marinos, Colombia; 5: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Building local capacity for natural heritage conservation. Chelonia mydas in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Marla Dublyn Diaz-Gámez¹, Melina Maldonado-Sandoval³, Alan Alfredo Zavala-Norzagaray², Alejandra Sandoval-Lugo^1,2

1: Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Mexico; 2: Instituto Politécnico Nacional; 3: Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias

Evaluation by the community on educational signboards for sea turtle conservation in Cambodia

Tharamony Ngoun, Chandara Tak, Matthew Glue

Fauna & Flora, Cambodia

Benefits of House of Learning, an after-school program as part of a marine turtle conservation effort, to local students

Alberto Y. T. Allo^1,2, Kartika Zohar², Fitryanti Pakiding^2,3

1: Department of Education, Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat, 98314; 2: Science for Conservation Program, Research and Community Service Institute of Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314; 3: Department of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314

Community-based sea turtle bycatch mitigation in southwest Cambodia

Srey Oun Ith¹, Srey Thai Sem¹, Phallin Chea¹, Sopheap Tum²

1: Wild Earth Allies, Cambodia; 2: Fisheries Administration, Cambodia

Mitigating loggerhead turtle bycatch in southern Peru: a collaborative ‘fisher scientist’ initiative

Mariela Pajuelo^1,2, Sergio Pingo², Eliana Alfaro², Astrid Jimenez², Javier Quiñones³, Jeffrey Mangel², Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto^2,4

1: Florida Museum, University of Florida, USA; 2: Pro Delphinus, Peru; 3: Instituto del Mar del Peru, Peru; 4: Universidad Científica del Sur, Peru

*Plastic marine debris in stranded sea turtles in Florida, U.S.A.

Heather A Seaman, Sarah L Milton

Florida Atlantic University, United States of America

*A scoping review on the impact of beach plastics on sea turtles, eggs, and hatchlings

Aditi Renake, Andrea D. Phillott

FLAME University, Pune, India

*Incidental by-catch of sea turtles in coastal and offshore fishery in Kalpitiya Peninsula, Sri Lanka: Assessment of fisher knowledge, practices and attitudes

Tharushi Ekanayake¹, Shwetha Abeywarna¹, Rajitha. K. Subasinghe², Lalith Ekanayake¹, R.S. Rajakaruna³

1: Bio Conservation Society (BCSL), Sri Lanka; 2: Bialik College Limited, Hawthorn Victoria, Australia.; 3: Department of Zoology, University of Peradeniya.

*Analysis of potential threats to marine turtles in Venezuela: a bibliometric analysis

Irama Beatriz Perozo-Díaz^1,2, Verónica de Los Llanos Romero³, Natalie Elizabeth Wildermann^1,2,6, Héctor Alonso Barrios-Garrido^1,2,4,5

1: Laboratorio de Ecología General, Departamento de Biología, Centro de Modelado Científico (CMC) de La Universidad del Zulia; Maracaibo, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.; 2: Grupo de Trabajo en Tortugas Marinas del Golfo de Venezuela (GTTM-GV); 3: vdelosllanos@gmail.com; 4: TropWATER, Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research; College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia,; 5: KAUST Beacon Development; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia.; 6: Red Sea Research Center; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 23955,. Saudi Arabia.

*By-catch(ing your help for the protection) of sea turtles in the East Central Atlantic

Andrea Fariñas-Bermejo^1,2, Ana Liria-Loza², Alejandro Suárez-Pérez³, Graham J. Pierce¹

1: Institute of Marine Research, Spanish National Research Council (IIM-CSIC) (Galicia, Spain); 2: ADS Biodiversidad (Las Palmas, Spain); 3: Department of Pathology and Food Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Las Palmas, Spain)

Spatio-temporal distribution and associated threats of Loggerhead turtle strandings in Uruguay (2000-2023)

Gabriela Manuela Velez-Rubio^1,2,3, Paula Marin Acevedo¹, Alejandro Fallabrino¹

1: NGO Karumbe; 2: Facultad de Ciencias-Udelar, Uruguay; 3: Programa de Desarrollo de Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA), Uruguay

Frequency of vessel strike injuries in sea turtle strandings along Sanibel and Captiva Island, Florida, U.S.A.

Jack W. Brzoza¹, Andrew T. Glinsky², Savannah M. Weber¹, Kelly A. Sloan¹

1: Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (Sanibel Island, Florida, U.S.A.); 2: Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.)

Beach cliffs as an emerging hazard to nesting sea turtles in the face of sea-level rise

Natalie E. Wildermann^1,2,3, Hector Barrios-Garrido⁴, Khuld Jabby⁵, Royale S. Hardenstine⁵, Takahiro Shimada⁶, Ivor Williams⁵, Carlos M. Duarte^1,2,3

1: Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.; 2: Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.; 3: Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.; 4: Beacon Department, KAUST Innovation; Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.; 5: Red Sea Zone Authority, Red Sea Global; Tawala, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.; 6: Aquatic Threatened Species Program, Department of Environment and Science; Moggill, Australia.

Investigating trends in cause-specific sea turtle strandings and mortality in the U.S. Virgin Islands: 2018-2023

Taylor Brunson¹, Claudia D. Lombard², Kelly R. Stewart³, Sean Kelly¹

1: Division of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Government of the Virgin Islands, USVI; 2: U.S. Fishing and Wildlife Service, USA; 3: The Ocean Foundation, Washington DC USA

Ten years of marine turtle strandings in Palawan, Philippines: from historical data to action planning

Sharah Marie Barredo¹, Myla Adriano², Mark Philip Acosta³, Ariana Agustines¹, Lorraine Aplasca¹, Geraldine Benavente³, Titus Canete¹, Lowee Lyn Castillo¹, Lyca Sandrea Castro⁴, Rufino Clavecilla⁵, Karen Mae C. Galabay⁶, Floredel D. Galon⁷, Jessica Labaja¹, Teodoro Jose S. Matta⁸, Ethan Manasan¹, Rene Manibale⁹, Dixie Marinas¹⁰, Curt Ivan Mariano¹, Azell Montederamos¹, Arty Moreno¹⁰, Jhonamie A. Mabuhay Omar⁴, Clarissa Pador¹¹, Glenn Gonzales Rebong¹², Rizza Araceli F. Salinas¹³, Sally Snow¹, Ma. Vivian Soriano¹⁴, Mildred Suza¹⁵, Dwight Justley G. Ulep⁶, AA Yaptinchay¹⁶, Alessandro Ponzo¹

1: Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, Philippines; 2: City Environment and Natural Resources Office, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.; 3: Port Barton Marine Park (PBMP), San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines; 4: College of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Western Philippines University- Puerto Princesa Campus, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.; 5: Municipal Agriculture Office, San Vicente, Palawan; 6: University of Manila, Metro Manila.; 7: Palawan State University, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.; 8: Palawan Council for Sustainable Development, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan; 9: Alimanguan Sagip Pawikan, San Vicente, Palawan; 10: Club Agutaya, San Vicente, Palawan Campus Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.; 11: Protected Area Management Office, Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape, Taytay, Palawan, Philippines; 12: Palawan Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Center - Crocodile Farm in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan; 13: Department of Environment and Natural Resources Biodiversity Management Bureau, Quezon City, Manila.; 14: Community Environment and Natural Resources Office, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.; 15: Protected Area Management Office, El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area,, Palawan; 16: Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines, Makati City, Manila.

Fatal shark attack on a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) found stranded off the coast of the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain.

Carolina Fernández - Maldonado¹, Alejandra Cerezo Caro¹, Cristian Suárez-Santana², Martín Cara Egea¹, Antonio Fernández²

1: Seashore Environment and Fauna, Tarifa, Cádiz, Spain; 2: Atlantic Cetacean Research Center, Veterinary Histology and Pathology, Institute of Animal Health (IUSA), Veterinary School, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Trasmontaña, s/n, 35413 Arucas, Las Palmas, Spain

Sea turtles, sea users and collisions: how to improve monitoring and cohabitation in Reunion Island, Indian Ocean?

Anne Emmanuelle Landes¹, Charline Fisseau¹, Claire Jean², Mathieu Barret², Sylvain Delaspre¹, Stéphane Ciccione²

1: CEDTM, Réunion (France); 2: Kelonia, l'observatoire des tortues marines, Réunion (France)

The use of Circle Hooks to mitigate loggerhead Bycatch in bottom longline off the Gulf of Gabès

Imed Jribi¹, Achraf Chouaibi¹, Arij Sadraoui¹, Asma Chaabane¹, Hamed Mallat¹, Maissa Louhichi¹, Wiem Boussellaa¹, Zouhour Bouain¹, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai²

1: FSS, Tunisia; 2: ASCOB-Syrtis, Sfax, Tunisia

Nine years of stranding data for sea turtles in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Tabitha Renee Siegfried

Gulfarium CARE Center

*Foraging patterns of more nourished green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) migrating to high latitudes in Japan

Megumi Kawai¹, Kazunari Kameda², Lyu Lyu¹, Tomoko Narazaki³, Takuya Fukuoka⁴, Katsufumi Sato¹

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Kuroshima Research Station, Sea Turtle Association of Japan; 3: Meijo University, Japan; 4: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

*Spatial ecology and conservation of foraging green turtles in the Northern Territory, Australia

Natalie Robson

Charles Darwin University, Australia

*Habitat mapping reveals resident areas and movement patterns of nesting leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in St. Croix USVI

Arona N. Bender¹, Christina I. Mauney², Corey D. Garza³, Peter H. Dutton⁴, Claudia D. Lombard⁵, Andrew J. Read¹, Kelly R. Stewart⁶

1: Duke University Marine Science & Conservation Division, Beaufort, NC 28516; 2: NCCOS Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, NC 28516; 3: University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195; 4: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, La Jolla, CA 92037; 5: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Frederiksted, VI 00840; 6: St. Croix Sea Turtle Project, The Ocean Foundation, Washington DC 20036

*Using an unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV) to assess seasonal abundances of megafauna in front of an important sea turtle nesting beach in Costa Rica

Adam Yaney-Keller¹, Verónica Valverde-Cantillo^2,3, Diego Fallas-Madrigal², Pilar Santidrían Tomilo^3,4, Nathan J. Robinson⁵

1: School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Australia; 2: Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica; 3: The Leatherback Trust, Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Station, Playa Grande, Costa Rica; 4: Animal Demography and Ecology Unit, GEDA, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Miquèl Marques 21, 01790, Esporles, Spain; 5: Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spanish National Research Council - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain

Decades-long monitoring of an individual male loggerhead sea turtle: AAJ723

Annessia Marie Michaels, Michael Bresette, Jeff Guertin, Cody Mott

Inwater Research Group, United States of America

Fishery discards and long-term changes in the diet of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the western Mediterranean as revealed by gut contents and bulk and compound specific stable isotope analyses

Luis Cardona¹, Francisco Javier Aznar², Maria Bas³, Jesús Tomás³

1: University of Barcelona, Spain; 2: Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain; 3: Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Spain

Coming out of their shells: Repeatable social preferences in green sea turtles, Chelonia mydas

Amy Feakes^1,2, Julian Gervolino¹, Isha Afeef^1,3, Emma Cavan², Stephanie Köhnk¹, Jamie Dunning²

1: Olive Ridley Project, 91 Padiham Road, Sadben, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 9EX UK; 2: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park), Imperial College London, Berkshire, UK; 3: Olive Ridley Project Maldives, H. Kaneerumaage, Dhonhuraa Goalhi, Malé, 20037, Republic of Maldives

The Florida hawksbill project: A twenty-year review

Lawrence D. Wood, Anna Bennett

National Save The Sea Turtle Foundation, United States of America

Seagrass meadow collapse due to overgrazing green turtles in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Junichi Okuyama¹, Naoya Noguchi², Hideaki Nishizawa², Iwao Tanita¹, Sachia Sasano¹, Motoya Tamaki¹

1: Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan; 2: Kyoto University, Japan

Residence of Male Black Sea turtles (Chelonia mydas agassizii) at Nesting Areas in Michoacan, México.

Carlos Delgado-Trejo^1,2, Cutzi Bedolla-Ochoa^1,2, Miguel Angel Reyes-López², Fátima Yedith Camacho-Sánchez²

1: Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales,Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico; 2: Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Campus Reynosa, IPN

Habitat selection of post-nesting loggerhead turtles in the Northwest Pacific

Kei Okamoto, Haruka Hayashi, Shintaro Ueno, Daisuke Ochi

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Fisheries Resources Institute, Japan

Insights on sea turtle behavior and habitat use in New York’s coastal waters from movement tags deployed on rehabilitated animals

Joseph D. Warren¹, Charleigh Kilgallon¹, Maxinne A. Montello^1,2

1: Stony Brook University, United States of America; 2: New York Marine Rescue Center, United States of America

Tracking male turtles from Kyparissia Bay, Western Greece, the largest loggerhead rookery in the Mediterranean

ALan F. Rees¹, Tasos Dimalexis², Odysseas Paxinos³, Panos Batzios⁴, George Mikoniatis⁵, Yannis Vavassis⁵

1: Turtles from Above, Plymouth, UK; 2: Nature Conservation Consultants (NCC) Ltd, Athens, Greece; 3: MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, Athens, Greece; 4: BIOTOPIA GP, Athens, Greece; 5: HELLENiQ UPSTREAM S.A., HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A., Athens, Greece

A multidisciplinary approach give insight on loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta, Linneus 1758) trophic ecology in the Tyrrhenian Sea (Central Mediterranean)

Monica Francesca Blasi

Filicudi Wildlife Conservation, Italy

Olive ridley internesting behaviour in northeast Brazil based on high resolution tracking data

A C C Melo¹, A J B Santos^1,4, R S Garcia¹, C Pulita¹, F L C Oliveira¹, M I Weber¹, A C D Silva¹, E L Fonseca¹, R M A Ramos², E A P Santos³

1: Fundação Projeto Tamar, Brazil; 2: Engeo Soluções Integradas Ltda, Brazil; 3: Centro TAMAR-ICMBio, Brazil; 4: Florida State University, United States of America

On battered reefs - insights into foraging of hawksbill turtles at known hotspots in the Maldives

Enas Mohamed Riyaz¹, Ahmed Leevan¹, Afrah Abdul-Sathaar², Isha Afeef², Ali Shareef³, Aishath Shaiha¹, Ibrahim Inaan², M.M.R Polyak⁴, Stephanie Köhnk⁴

1: Environmental Protection Agency, Handhuvaree Hingun, Malé, Republic of Maldives; 2: Olive Ridley Project Maldives, H. Kaneerumaage, Dhonhuraa Goalhi, Malé, 20037, Republic of Maldives; 3: Happy Side, K. Maafushi, 08090, Republic of Maldives; 4: Olive Ridley Project, 91 Padiham Road, Sadben, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 9EX UK

Dispersal of nesting marine turtles from NEOM Islands, Saudi Arabia, after breeding

Hector Barrios-Garrido¹, Abdulrazaq Alatawi², August Santillan², Enjey Ghazzawi³, Abdulaziz Alkaboor², Mishari Alghrair⁴, Paul Marshall⁴, Deni Porej⁴, Ricardo Ramalho²

1: Beacon Development, KAUST Innovation. KAUST. Saudi Arabia. University of Zulia, Venezuela. TropWATER, Australia; 2: Beacon Development, KAUST Innovation. KAUST. Saudi Arabia; 3: Education, Research, and Innovation. NEOM. Saudi Arabia; 4: Nature Reserve, NEOM. Saudi Arabia

First island wide survey of hawksbill sea turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, in the waters of St John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Paul Jobsis¹, Scott Eanes², William {Alex} Webb²

1: Univ. of the Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S.; 2: The Hawksbill Project

Evaluating resource use patterns and partitioning in relation to changing prey abundance in co-occurring sea turtle species using molecular isotope geochemistry

Matthew D. Ramirez^1,2,3, Justine Intemann-Milligan⁴, Larisa Avens⁵, Matthew H. Godfrey^6,7,8, Susan G. Barco⁹, Kelton W. McMahon¹

1: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882 USA; 2: Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 USA; 3: Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28409 USA; 4: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; 5: National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, NC, 28516 USA; 6: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Beaufort, NC, 28516 United States; 7: Duke Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, 28516 United States; 8: Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27607 United States; 9: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 United States

Green turtle photo-identification improves mark-recapture efforts and provides evidence of habitat connectivity and fine-scale ontogenetic shifts

Annabelle Brooks¹, Hannah Virgin², Stephen Dunbar^3,4, Dustin Baumbach⁴, Liberty Boyd², Stephen Connett⁵, Ryley Mayoras², Elizabeth Whitman²

1: Cape Eleuthera Institute, PO Box EL-62029, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, The Bahamas; 2: Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, USA; 3: Marine Research Group, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350 USA; 4: Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR, Inc.); 5: Family Island Research and Education, Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research

*Role of sea turtle eggs as a marine originated organic matter in the diet of terrestrial invertebrate ghost crabs

Hirotaka Tajima^1,2, Hideaki Nishizawa³, Manabu Kume⁴, Junichi Okuyama⁵, Hiromichi Mitamura^1,2,4

1: Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2: Distinguished Doctoral Program of Platforms (WISE), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 3: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 4: Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 5: Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Okinawa, Japan

*Change in clutch depth and reproductive success of late-season green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests on the East-Central Florida coast, USA

Olivia J. Hardway, M.S. Moonstone, E. E. Seney, K. L. Mansfield

University of Central Florida's Marine Turtle Research Group, United States of America

*Long-term trends in reproductive output of marine turtles on the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA

Jeena Prasertlum, Erin E. Seney, Kate L. Mansfield

University of Central Florida Marine Turtle Research Group, United States of America

*Loggerhead sea turtle hatchling size: then and now

Abigail Crowder, Erin Seney, Kate Mansfield

University of Central Florida, United States of America

*Emergence success of leatherback sea turtles in a changing climate on the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA

Brianna Madison Nardelli, Jeena Prasertlum, Erin E Seney, Kate L Mansfield

UCF Marine Turtle Research Group, United States of America

*Determining incubation duration and reproductive success of late-season loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests on the East-Central Florida coast, USA

Merope S Moonstone, Olivia J Hardway, Matt E Larsen, Kate L Mansfield, Erin E Seney

University of Central Florida's Marine Turtle Research Group, United States of America

*Nesting ecology of leatherback turtles at buru island, indonesia

Retno Kusuma Ningrum^1,2, Muhammad Idham Farsha³, Rendra Kurniawan³, Ranny Yuneni³, Yuliana Syamsuni³, Alexander R Gaos⁴, John Wang⁴, Michael Osmond⁵, Shaya Honarvar^1,2

1: School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96822, USA; 2: Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96822, USA; 3: Yayasan WWF-Indonesia, Marine and Fisheries Program, Jl. Pemuda 1 No.2 Renon, Bali 80226, Indonesia; 4: NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, 1845 Wasp Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96818, USA; 5: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) US, Washington DC 20037-1193, USA

*Nesting trends of leatherback, green, and olive ridley sea turtles at Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas, Costa Rica

Isabel Rodriguez¹, Faridah Fatungase¹, Pilar Santidrian Tomillo², Frank V Paladino¹

1: Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; 2: The Leatherback Trust, Goldring Marine Biology Station, Playa Grande, Costa Rica

Closing the knowledge gap: Contributing data from Sumatra about the Northeastern Indian Ocean leatherback sea turtle subpopulation

Meriussoni Zai¹, Thomas Reischig², Sarif Hidayat³, Thomas Amey⁴, Hiltrud Cordes²

1: Yayasan Penyu Indonesia, Indonesia; 2: Turtle Foundation, Germany; 3: Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia; 4: Ecosystem Impact, Indonesia

Running out of sand: Sea turtle nesting activity on Félicité Island, Seychelles

Lara Kalisch, Martin Stelfox, Stephanie Köhnk

Olive Ridley Project, 91 Padiham Road, Sadben, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 9EX UK

Which threats affect hatching success of the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Fiji?

Shritika Shayal Prakash^1,3, Ashmeeta Shalvina², Ana Ciriyawa¹, Susanna Piovano¹

1: Discipline of Marine Studies, SAGEONS, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji; 2: Discipline of Biological and Chemical Sciences, SAGEONS, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji; 3: Present address: Ika Bula Consultants, Suva, Fiji

An increased risk of predation for Caretta caretta nests in Calabria (Southern Italy)

Chiara Mancino^1,2, Maria Denaro², Pietro Giovannelli², Eshna Gomes², Romano Liotti², Teresa Malito², Giovanni Parise², Salvatore Urso²

1: Sapienza University, Italy; 2: Caretta Calabria Conservation, Italy

Hatching success and sex ratios of Chelonia mydas nests in Lang Tengah Island, Malaysia

Azrin Asyikin Mohd Shukor^1,2, Tze Ning Cheok^1,4, Seh Ling Long^1,3

1: Lang Tengah Turtle Watch, Lang Tengah Island, Terengganu, Malaysia; 2: (PULIHARA) Marine Conservation and Research Organisation, Malaysia; 3: TRAFICC International Southeast Asia; 4: Scuba Junkie SEAS

Loggerheads nesting in France mainland and Corsica in 2023: an exceptional year or the beginning of a new story?

Anthony Caro¹, Sidonie Catteau², Cathy Cesarini³, Françoise Claro⁴, Céline Ferlat⁵, Jacques Fretey⁶, Delphine Gambaiani⁵, Alexandre Girard⁴, Marc Girondot⁷, Antony Martinez⁹, Claude Miaud⁸, Pierre Moisson⁹, Jean-Baptiste Sénégas⁵, Charlène Thévenet⁹

1: Office Français pour la Biodiversité; 2: Association Marineland, Antibes; 3: Association CARI (Cétacés Association Recherche Insulaire) and Société Herpétologique de France, Réseau Tortues Marines de Méditerranée Française; 4: UMS PatriNat, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris; 5: Centre d'Etude et de Sauvegarde des Tortues Marines de Méditerranée; 6: Association Chélonée; 7: Ecologie, Systématique, Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, France; 8: CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE-PSL University, IRD; 9: A Cupulatta, Vero, Corse

First years of monitoring three potential key beaches for sea turtles on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

Lucia Heredero Saura, Laura Exley, George Grimmett

COPROT, Costa Rica

Is there a future for loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta, Linneus 1758) nesting in the Aeolian Archipelago (Southern Italy)?

Monica Francesca Blasi, Vittoria Fiandino, Michelle Gelippi

Filicudi Wildlife Conservation, Italy

Leatherback haven in the Indian Ocean

Adhith Swaminathan¹, Saw Thesorow¹, Sushil Lakra¹, Dr. Kartik Shanker^1,2

1: Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, India; 2: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Explorers and residents: dichotomic nesting and internesting behaviour of loggerhead sea turtles colonising the western Mediterranean

Eduardo Belda¹, Sara Abalo-Morla², Luís Cardona³, Elena Abella⁴, Lucas Belda¹, Blanca Feliu-Tena^1,5, Marta Pascual⁶, Carlos Carreras⁶, Jesús Tomás⁷

1: Institut per a la Investigació i Gestió de Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, C/Paranimf n° 1, 46730, Gandia, València, Spain; 2: Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanografico de Vigo (COV-IEO), CSIC, Subida a Radio Faro, 50-52, 36390, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain; 3: Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Av. Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; 4: BETA Tech Center, TECNIO Network, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia ( UVic-UCC), C. de Roda 70, 08500, Vic, Spain.; 5: Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), C.O. Murcia, C/el Varadero 1, Lo Pagan, 30740 Murcia, Spain; 6: Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística and IRBio, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal, 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.; 7: Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, University of Valencia, Apdo. 22085, E-46071, Valencia, Spain

Collaborative conservation initiatives: Preliminary assessment of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting ecology in Chakar Hutan, Terengganu, Malaysia

Nur Isandra Shazlynn Shamsul Azmil¹, Wan Zuriana Wan Sulaiman¹, Muhammad Afiq Karim¹, Audrey Symplicius¹, Seh Ling Long^1,2

1: Lang Tengah Turtle Watch, Malaysia; 2: TRAFFIC International Southeast Asia

Olive Ridley nesting monitoring in the Osa Peninsula; threats and conservation measures.

Alba Lopez Bobadilla, Laura Exley

COPROT, Comunidad Protectora de Tortugas de Osa, Costa Rica

How important is sea turtle nest site selection in the context of climate change?

Holly Jayne Stokes¹, Nicole Esteban¹, Graeme C Hays²

1: Swansea University, United Kingdom; 2: Deakin University, Australia

Effects of rising temperature on sea turtle nesting outcomes - How TREE Foundation maintains the temperature along the Andhra Pradesh coast, India.

Prabhakara Rao Marabathina, Supraja Dharini

TREE Foundation, India

Reproductive trends of loggerhead and green sea turtle populations over time: An analysis of a long-term nest monitoring dataset from Sanibel, Florida, USA

Savannah M Weber¹, Andrew Glinsky², Jack W Brzoza¹, Charles LeBuff³, Kelly A Sloan¹

1: Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (Florida, USA); 2: Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (Hawaii, USA); 3: Caretta Research Inc (Florida, USA)

A summary of twenty eight years of sea turtle nesting data on Topsail Island, North Carolina

Terry Meyer¹, Jean F Beasley¹, Kathryn A Zagzebski¹, Matthew H Godfrey²

1: The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue & Rehabilitation Center, 302 Tortuga Lane, Surf City, NC 28445; 2: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, 1701 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-1700

17-year green sea turtle monitoring on Tetiaroa atoll, French Polynesia

Dr. Cécile Gaspar, Dr. Jade Gouin, Théo Guillaume, Romain Clervoy

TE MANA O TE MOANA, NGO, French Polynesia

Irresponsible tourism is a threat to the habitat of the green sea turtle on the northern coasts of the Sea of Oman Sea

Mahmood Sinaei¹, Mehdi Bolouki², Mohammad Talebi Matin², Ashrafali Hosseini², Mostafa Hasanian¹, Farhad Salehzehi³, Mohammad Sadegh Saba²

1: Department of Biology, Marine Environment Research Center, Islamic Azad University, Chabahar Branch, Chabahar, Iran; 2: Department of Environment, Tehran, Iran; 3: Chabahar Industrial Free Zone, Sistan and Baloochistan, Chabahar, Iran

Last strongholds of Iran’s largest hawksbill rookery: mice invasion on the Nakhiloo Island, Persian Gulf

Majid Askari-Hesni¹, Mostafa Moazeni², Mohammad Amin Tollab², Hossein Jafari², Abdolrahman Moradzadeh², Amirmozafar Hosseini³, Mahdi Iranmanesh¹, Somaye Zangiabadi⁴, Abolfazl Akbari⁵, Pejman Khalili⁵, Amir Ehsan Stansti⁵, Mohsen Rezaie-Atagholipour⁶

1: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.; 2: Department of Environment, Bushehr, Iran; 3: Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, Khoramshahr Marine Science and Technology University, Khoramshahr, Khuzestan, Iran; 4: Department of Biology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; 5: Persian Gulf Mobin Energy Company, Asalouyeh, Bushehr, Iran; 6: Qeshm Environmental Conservation Institute (QECI), Qeshm Island, Hormozgan, Iran

The significance and challenges faced by the increasing number of nesting honu (Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles) on Oahu

Deborah Kay Herrera¹, Sheldon Plentovich², Kelly Goodale³, Joy Browning⁴

1: Malama i na honu, United States of America; 2: Pacific Islands Coastal Program; 3: Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Service Office; 4: Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Service Office

Unveiling a recently discovered loggerhead sea turtle nesting site in Greece producing a predominance of male hatchlings

Anna Lamaj, Galini Samlidou, ALan F. Rees, Dimitris Margaritoulis

ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece

How sand grain size dictates sea turtle hatchlings’ destiny in the nest escaping?

Mohd Uzair Rusli, Lyvia Chong, David T. Booth, Nadhirah Syafiqah Suhaimi

Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Utilisation of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool to monitor nesting sea turtle activity and volunteer patrol effort at Cambodia’s only known nesting site

Chandara Tak, Matthew Glue, Tharamony Ngoun

Fauna & Flora, Cambodia

*The umbilical cord as a non-invasive sampling: genotype and applications

Gisela Marín-Capuz¹, Elena Abella², Marta Pascual¹, Cinta Pegueroles^1,3, Carlos Carreras^1,3

1: Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística and IRBio, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal, 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; 2: BETA Technological Center, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Carretera Roda 70, E-08500, Vic, Spain; 3: Should be considered senior authors

*Identifying geographic locations where sea turtle species are likely to inter-breed and hybridize

Sierra Nicole Hershberger^1,2, Mary M Brandle^1,2, Sibelle T Vilaça³, Matthew D Ramirez^1,2

1: Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 USA; 2: Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28409 USA; 3: Instituto Technológico Vale, Belém, Pará, 66055-090, Brazil

*4-decades of loggerhead nesting trends and survey analyses at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

Hailey Grossman^1,2, Susan Piacenza¹

1: Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University; 2: Environmental Management Division, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune NC

*Size matters: how sample size and molecular marker choice affect mixed stock analysis

Gustavo D. Stahelin^1,2, Katherine L. Mansfield¹

1: University of Central Florida, Department of Biology, Orlando, FL, USA; 2: Fundação Projeto Tamar, Salvador, BA, Brazil.

Where do they come from? A genomic baseline for individual assignments in the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)

Astrid Luna-Ortiz¹, Anna Barbanti¹, Adolfo Marco², Silvia Giralt³, Daniela Freggi⁴, Cinta Pegueroles¹, Alberto Abreu-Grobois⁵, Raúl Llera-Herrera⁵, Elisabeth Labastida-Estrada⁶, Salima Machkour M`Rabet⁷, Dimitris Margaroitoulis⁸, Oguz Turkozan⁹, Marta Pascual^1,10, Carlos Carreras^1,10

1: Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística and IRBio, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal, 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; 2: Department of Biodiversity Conservation, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Americo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain; 3: Fundación para la Conservación y la Recuperación de Animales Marinos (CRAM), 08820 El Prat de Llobregat, Spain; 4: Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Punta Sottile, 92031 Lampedusa AG, Italy; 5: Unidad Académica Mazatlan, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 811, Mazatlan, Sinaloa 82000 Mexico; 6: Colección Nacional de Helmintos. Departamento de Zoología. Instituto de Biología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 7: Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular y Conservación, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Chetumal; 8: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, GR-10432 Athens, Greece; 9: Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology, 09010 Aydın, Turkey; 10: Should be considered senior authors

New colonisers drive the increase of the emerging loggerhead turtle nesting in Western Mediterranean

Astrid Luna-Ortiz^1,8, Gisela Marín-Capuz^1,8, Elena Abella², Jose Luis Crespo-Picazo³, Fernando Escribano⁴, Guillem Félix⁵, Silvia Giralt⁶, Jesús Tomás⁷, Marta Pascual^1,9, Carlos Carreras^1,9, Cinta Pegueroles^1,9

1: Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and IrBio, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain; 2: BETA Technological Center, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Carretera Roda 70, E-08500, Vic, Spain; 3: Fundació Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, E-46013, València, Spain; 4: Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre "El Valle", Ctra. Subida a El Valle, 62, E-30150, La Alberca de las Torres, Murcia, Spain.; 5: Consorci de Recuperació de Fauna de les Illes Balears (COFIB) Carretera Palma- Sineu, Km 15,400, E-07142, Santa Eugènia, Balearic Islands, Spain; 6: Fundación para la Conservación y la Recuperación de Animales Marinos (CRAM), E-08820, El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; 7: Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, University of Valencia, Apdo. 22085, E-46071, Valencia, Spain; 8: Should be considered first author; 9: Should be considered senior authors

Reimagining sea turtle conservation in India: insights from a long-term monitoring study

Chandana Pusapati¹, Muralidharan Manoharakrishnan², Nupur Kale³, Chetan Rao⁴, Alissa Barnes⁵, Vishrutha Rao¹, Kartik Shanker^1,6

1: Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, India; 2: World Wide Fund for Nature-India; 3: Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom; 4: FLAME University, Pune, India; 5: Wildlife Conservation Society-India; 6: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Genetic stock structure of Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting populations in Fiji

Erin L. LaCasella¹, Susanna Piovano², Shritika S. Prakash², Malakai Tuiono², Ana Ciriyawa², Peter H. Dutton¹

1: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, United States of America; 2: SAGEONS, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Genetic stock identification of fisheries bycatch provides insights into differences in broad-scale distribution patterns of leatherbacks in the North and Southeast Pacific

Suzanne E Roden¹, Erin L LaCasella¹, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto^2,3, George H Balazs⁴, Nelly de Paz Campos⁵, Miguel Donoso⁶, Amy Frey¹, T Todd Jones⁷, Jeffrey C Mangel², Summer Martin⁷, Shawn Murakawa⁷, Patricia Zarate⁸, Peter H Dutton¹

1: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries; 2: Asociacion ProDelphinus; 3: Universidad Cientifica del Sur; 4: Golden Honu Services of Oceania; 5: ACOREMA; 6: Pacifico Laud; 7: Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries; 8: Departamento de Oceanografía y Medio Ambiente, Instituto de Fomento Pesquero

Surviving the Northernmost waters: Genetic insights into green turtles' adaptation in Japan

Tomoko Hamabata

Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan

Developing a cost-effective molecular method of sex determination of Northern Atlantic juvenile sea turtles using gene expression

Maxine A. Montello¹, Patricia Ceseretti², Andrew M. Wier²

1: New York Marine Rescue Center, Riverhead, New York, USA; 2: Dyson College of Natural Science, Biology Department, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, USA

Genetic characterization and diversity of an undescribed loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) reproductive population and new insights on the genetic structure for the southwest Atlantic

Alberty Cleyton Gaspar Xavier¹, Luana Alves Simões¹, Sarah de Souza Alves Teodoro¹, Sandra Ludwig¹, Gabrielly Loretti Schultz¹, Ana Carolina Barcelos Pereira Mariano¹, Daniella Torres Almeida Pereira², Tatiane Bittar Vieira², Victor Patiri³, Gustave Gilles Lopez³, Romoaldo Sales Gaspar³, Sarah Maria Vargas¹

1: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil; 2: Fundação Projeto Tamar.; 3: Braço Social Consultoria

Genetic composition and origin of undescribed leatherback turtles aggregations (Dermochelys coriacea) along the Brazilian coast

Gabrielly Loretti Schultz¹, Werlanne Magalhães², Sarah de Souza Alves Teodoro¹, Ana Carolina Barcelos Pereira Mariano¹, Alberty Cleyton Gaspar Xavier¹, Alexsandro Santos³, Daniella Torres Almeida Pereira³, Tatiane Bittar Vieira³, Marta Cremer⁴, Camila Domit⁵, Sarah Maria Vargas¹

1: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil; 2: Instituto Tartarugas do Delta; 3: Fundação Projeto TAMAR; 4: Universidade da Região de Joinville; 5: Universidade Federal do Paraná

Somatic growth rates of juvenile green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) foraging in the Fijian Archipelago

Garrett E Lemons¹, Calandra N Tuner Tomaszewicz¹, Shritika S Prakash², Katy Miller³, Jeffrey A Seminoff¹, Susanna Piovano²

1: NOAA, United States of America; 2: School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans, and Natural Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji; 3: Vatuvara Private Islands, Suva, Fiji

Assessing breeding sex ratios and relatedness among male and female breeders in a hawksbill turtle rookery

Kathryn Levasseur^1,2, Cooper Oljeski¹, Dyani Harrison¹, Sylvia Stewart-Bates¹, Phoebe Fowler¹, Seth Stapleton^2,3, Joseph Quattro⁴

1: Davidson College, USA; 2: Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project, Long Island, Antigua; 3: University of Minnesota, USA; 4: University of South Carolina, USA

Genetic analysis of hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) by mtDNA sequences in the Yucatan Peninsula

Irlanda Esmeralda Gallardo-Alanis^1,2, Fátima Yedith Camacho-Sánchez^1,3, Blanca Idalia González-Garza⁴, Cesar Ley-Quiñonez⁵, Alan A. Zavala-Norzagaray⁵, Luis Angel Tello-Sahagún^5,6, Mitzi C. Núñez-Solano⁷, Israel Llamas-Gonzalez⁷, Caterine E. Hart⁸, A. Alonso Aguirre⁹, José Alberto Narváez-Zapata1¹⁰, Miguel Angel Reyes Lopez¹

1: Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico; 2: George Mason University; 3: UAT-UAMRA; 4: Mar y Sierra Salvaje A.C; 5: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR Sinaloa; 6: Estación Biológica Majahuas; 7: Eco Mayto A. C; 8: Centro de Investigaciones oceanicas del mar de Cortés, Mazatlán, Sinaloa; 9: Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University; 10: Industrial Biotechnology Laboratory, Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Updating haplotypes for Antigua & Barbuda and re-analyzing rookery structure in the Eastern Caribbean

Kathryn Levasseur^1,2, Johana Monzon¹, Dyani Harrison¹, Cooper Oljeski¹, Sylvia Stewart-Bates¹, Seth Stapleton^2,3

1: Davidson College, USA; 2: Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project, Long Island, Antigua; 3: University of Minnesota, USA

Evaluating the green turtle new colonisation of the Mediterranean through genomics and satellite telemetry

Gisela Marín-Capuz¹, José Luís Crespo-Picazo², Nathan J. Robinson^2,3, Lucia Garrido⁴, Ana R. Patrício^5,6, Simon Demetropoulos⁷, Dimitris Margaritoulis⁸, Jane Hardwick⁹, Imed Jbri¹⁰, Marta Pascual¹, Cinta Pegueroles^1,11, Carlos Carreras^1,11

1: Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística and IRBio, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal, 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; 2: Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana, Gran Vía Marqués del Turia 19, 46005 Valencia, Spain; 3: Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spanish National Research Council - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona 08003, Spain; 4: Fundación para la Conservación y la Recuperación de Animales Marinos (CRAM), E-08820, El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; 5: MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET – Aquatic Research Network, Ispa – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Lisboa, Portugal; 6: Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK; 7: Cyprus Wildlife Society, P.O. Box 24281. Nicosia 1703, Cyprus; 8: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, GR-10432 Athens, Greece; 9: Department of Environment, PO Box 10202 Grand Cayman KY1-1002, Cayman Islands.; 10: BIOME Lab Sfax Faculty of Sciences, University of Sfax, Route Soukra 1171, Sfax, Tunisia; 11: Should be considered senior authors

The mystery of bimodal nesting seasons in marine turtles

Marc Girondot

Université Paris-Saclay, France

Implications from low remigration rates of nesting females in the North Pacific population of loggerhead turtles.

Yoshimasa Matsuzawa^1,2, Takashi Ishihara^1,3, Kojiro Mizuno^4,5, Mitsuharu Kume⁵, Ryoko Masuyama⁵, Shizue Mizutani⁵

1: Sea Turtle Association of Japan; 2: Shikoku Aquarium; 3: AQUARIUM x ART átoa; 4: Amami Marine Life Research Association; 5: Turtle Crew

Where did they go? Alarming lack of juveniles raises concern at Tubbataha

Nicolas Pilcher¹, Angelique Songco², Rizza Araceli Salinas³, Maria Retchie Alaba², Gerlie Gedoria², Segundo Conales Jr², Noel Bundal², Jeffrey David², Crisencio Caranay Jr.², Rowell Alarcon²

1: Marine Research Foundation, Malaysia; 2: Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Philippines; 3: Biodiversity Management Bureau, Philippines

Shout-out to loggerheads in Brazil: Nesting trends from 1991 – 2019

Gustavo David Stahelin¹, Paulo Barata¹, Paulo Lara¹, Nathalia Berchieri¹, Alexsandro Santos¹, João Carlos Alciati Thomé², Cecília Baptistotte², Daniella Torres de Almeida¹, Daniel Nascimento³, Jaqueline Castilhos¹, Bruno Giffoni¹, Danielle Monteiro^4,5, Maria Ângela Marcovaldi¹

1: Fundação Projeto Tamar, Salvador, BA, Brazil.; 2: Centro TAMAR-ICMBio, Vitória, ES, Brazil.; 3: Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural – Fazenda Caruara, São João da Barra, RJ, Brazil.; 4: Laboratório de Estudos para a Pesca Responsável – Instituto de Oceanografia – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.; 5: Núcleo de Educação e Monitoramento Ambiental – NEMA, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.

Helminth Infection of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle Caretta caretta along the Tunisian coasts

Wiem Boussellaa¹, Hamed Mallat², Maroua Hrizi², Imed Jribi²

1: SZN; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn di Napoli, Italy; 2: Faculty of Sciences of Sfax

Skin lesion in aquaculture green sea turtle, Chelonia Mydas

Muhammad Nasyrul Adly Mohd Afandy, Faizah Aplop, Mohd Uzair Rusli

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Clinical and radiographic evaluation of mortality leading cause in accidentally trawled sea turtles: Drowning or Gas embolism?

Delia Franchini¹, Stefano Ciccarelli¹, Carmela Valastro¹, Francesco Caprio¹, Davide Bellomo¹, Daniela Freggi¹, Pasquale Salvemini², Antonio Di Bello¹

1: Sea Turtle Clinic, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy; 2: WWF Turtle Rescue Center, Molfetta Bari, Italy

A multidisciplinary approach on the health assessment of loggerhead turtles undergoing rehabilitation: supporting their role as sentinels of marine litter

Montserrat Sole¹, Arnaud Legrand², Edith Bigot-Corbel², Maria El Rakwe M³, Enora Prado³, Gaelle Blanvillain⁴, Albert Martinez-Silvestre⁵, Jose Luis Crespo⁶, Lucia Garrido⁷, Claude Miaud⁸, Fabien Aubret⁹, Pauline Provin¹⁰, Arnaud Charlery-Adèle¹⁰, Jean-Christophe Auguet¹⁰

1: ICM-CSIC, Spain; 2: Nantes Université, France; 3: IFREMER, Brest, France; 4: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA; 5: CRARC, Spain; 6: Fundación Oceanogràfic, Spain; 7: CRAM, Spain; 8: UAR CNRS, France; 9: CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE-PSL University, IRD, Univ Paul Valéry, France; 10: MARBEC, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, France

Traumatic Fibromas in Lepidochelys olivacea during rehabilitation: case report

Denyielim Elias de Oliveira¹, Ana Clara Rigoni¹, Paolla di Cavallieri Rodrigues¹, Clara Sardinha¹, Daniela Nóbrega², Renato Leite Leonardo³, Joana Ikeda¹, Daphne Wrobel Goldberg⁴

1: Ambipar Response; 2: Laboratório Pat Animal; 3: Dr. Fish Soluções em Aquarismo e Veterinária Ltda; 4: Projeto Albatroz

Health and hematological evaluation of captive hawkbills sea turtle in a rehabilitation facility in Thailand

Sirawich Srisiri^1,2, Komkiew Pinpimai³, Thanida Haetrakul^1,2,3

1: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand; 2: Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animal Research Center of Excellence (VMARCE), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand; 3: Aquatic Resource Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand

Caring for long-term sea turtle patients: exploring the potential of Environmental Enrichment strategies through the experience of Lampedusa Rescue Center, Italy

Andrea Badaile, Daniela Freggi, Aethus Salvatore Tuccio

Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Italy

Surveying antibiotic resistance of gram-negative bacteria isolated from wild-caught green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) of Florida, U.S.A.

Christina Cortes, Isabella Donadio Pizzolato, Nada Maher, Sarah Milton

Florida Atlantic University, United States of America

Community livelihoods development as a sea turtle conservation tool in Sri Lanka

Thushan Kapurusinghe, Shyama Wijekulasuriya, Deshapriya Saman Rathnakumara, Vasantha Pahalawattaarachchi

Turtle Conservation Project, Sri Lanka

Incidental Discovery of Materials, Equipment, and Methods through the Words of a Carey Craftsman.

Gilberto Rafael Borges Guzmán^1,2,3, Héctor Barrios-Garrido^4,5,6, Pedro Vernet^1,2

1: ProOcean; 2: Fundación Científica Los Roques, Venezuela; 3: Asociación Mexicana de Veterinarios de Tortugas; 4: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia; 5: TropWATER, James Cook University. Australia; 6: GTTM-GV, Venezuela

*Teeny Tiny Neon Turtles: A reliable, accessible, and scalable minimally-invasive remote tracking method for post hatchling neonate sea turtles

Jenna Contuchio, Rita Mehta

University of California Santa Cruz, United States of America

Drone fight to FAIR dataset

Nick Mortimer¹, Milica Stankovic², Mathew A Vanderklif¹, Chris Jacket¹

1: CSIRO Environment, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Crawley, WA, Australia, 6009; 2: Excellence Center for Biodiversity of Peninsular Thailand, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand 90112

The potential of passive acoustic monitoring to help inform conservation strategies of northwest Atlantic leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)

Derek M. Aoki^1,2,7, Annie Page², Justin R. Perrault¹, Jeffrey R. Guertin³, Scott Benson^4,8, Andrew DiMatteo⁵, Claudio Quesada-Rodriguez⁶, Aimee L. Hoover⁷, George L. Shillinger^7,9

1: Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Juno Beach, Florida, USA; 2: Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA; 3: Inwater Research Group, Jensen Beach, Florida, USA; 4: Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Moss Landing, CA, USA; 5: CheloniData LLC, Berthoud, CO, USA; 6: Ecology Project International, Pacuare Reserve, Costa Rica; 7: Upwell Turtles, Monterey, California, USA; 8: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University, Moss Landing, CA, USA; 9: MigraMar, Bodega Bay, California, USA

Comparing aerial and boat-based surveys to monitor offshore aggregations of olive ridleys in India

Muralidharan Manoharakrishnan¹, Sadhwi Sindura Behera¹, Sejal Worah¹, Shashank Srinivasan², Nandini Mehrotra², Chandana Pusapati³, Vishrutha Rao³, Kartik Shanker^3,4

1: World Wide Fund for Nature-India; 2: Technology for Wildlife Foundation, Goa, India; 3: Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; 4: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Adopt, track, protect: leveraging digitalization for sustainable sea turtle conservation in malaysia

Faizah Aplop, Tuan Mustaqim Rosdan, Arizal Shamsil Rifin, Muhammad Nasyrul Afandy, Muhd Uzair Rusli

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Nest domes: an innovative strategy to mitigate the impact of climate change in the sex determination of sea turtles

Zulema Alejandra Guevara Oviedo¹, Sara Giraldo², Sergio Tenjo², Daniel Payan³

1: Rancho San Cristóbal CSL; 2: Banana Boat; 3: VML Colombia

Novel miniaturized satellite tags reveal diving behaviors of early-life stage leatherback turtles.

Tony Candela^1,2,3, Jeanette Wyneken⁴, Peter Leijen⁵, Emily Turla⁴, Philippe Gaspar², George L. Shillinger¹

1: Upwell, Monterey, CA, USA; 2: Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, France; 3: Aquarium La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France; 4: Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA; 5: Lotek Wireless, Inc., Havelock North, New-Zealand

Utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate sea turtle identification in low water visibility in Uruguay, South Western Atlantic.

Rafael Rosa^1,2,3, Natalia S. Teryda^1,4, Gabriela M. Vélez-Rubio^1,2,5

1: Karumbé NGO, Av. Rivera 3245, Montevideo, 11600, Uruguay; 2: Departamento MEDIA, Centro Universitario Regional del Este (CURE), Universidad de la República, Rocha, Uruguay.; 3: Instituto de Computación (INCO), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay; 4: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, USA.; 5: Sección Oceanografía y Ecología Marina, Instituto de Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, 11400, Uruguay

Identification of sea turtle species using MALDI-TOF/MS

Rangsima Sujittosakul¹, Sittiruk Roytrakul³, Siriwan Thaisakun³, Ekarit Duangmala⁴, Watchara Sakornwimon⁵, Kirsty Magson⁶, Patcharaporn Kaewmong⁷, Stephen Dunbar⁸, Thanida Haetrakul^1,2

1: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; 2: Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animal Research Center of Excellence, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; 3: Functional Proteomics Technology Laboratory, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand; 4: Ao-Siam National Park, Prachuab Khiri Khan 77140, Thailand; 5: Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center (Central Gulf of Thailand), Chumphon 86000, Thailand; 6: New Heaven Reef Conservation Program, Surat Thani 84360, Thailand; 7: Phuket Marine Biological Center, Phuket 83000, Thailand; 8: Loma Linda University, California 92350, United State

Citizen scientist come out of their shells

Daniela Alarcon^1,2,3, Sterlina Smith⁴, I-Sah Hsieh⁴, Jason Colon⁴, Jonny McElhinney McElhinney⁴, Jen Mahone⁴, Steve Mellgren⁴, Kelly Weaver³, Juan Pablo Munoz Perez^1,2,3

1: School of Science, Technology & Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast UniSC, Queensland, Australia.; 2: Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galápagos, Ecuador; 3: Galápagos Science Center GSC, USFQ & UNC-Chapel Hill, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galápagos, Ecuador; 4: SAS

^VIVEMAR a self-sufficient community project with more than fourteen years protecting sea turtles on Oaxaca, Mexico.

Cinthia Verónica Venzor Leyva

VIVEMAR ONG, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Digital marine guardians: bridging research and outreach through 3D surface scanning and mobile communication tools

Tabris Yik To Chung, Brian Chin Wing Kot, Henry Chun Lok Tsui

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China

Historical Ecology applied to sea turtles

Willemien de Kock

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

Turtle Friendly Village: an approach to a sustainable community-based strategy for the conservation of Hawksbill turtle in Melaka, Malaysia

Azzakirat Raman, Lau Min Min

WWF-Malaysia, Melaka Hawksbill Conservation Project, 78300 Masjid Tanah, Melaka

Corporate partnerships: Greenwashing or valuable support for sea turtle organizations?

Janin Bartoschek¹, Kate Yeoman², Jatmiko Wiwoho³

1: Turtle Foundation, Germany; 2: Fundação Tartaruga, Cabo Verde; 3: Yayasan Penyu Indonesia

Role of community participation in the prevention of sea turtle illegal activity in Bocas del Toro, Panama.

Raul Garcia¹, Roldan Valverde²

1: Sea turtle conservancy, Panama; 2: Southeastern Louisiana university, USA

*Habitat model of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the North Atlantic

Martina Bartolini^1,2, Elliott L. Hazen^3,4, Hugo Parra^1,2, Karen A. Bjorndal⁵, Thomas Dellinger^6,7,8, Rune Dietz⁹, Chris Sasso¹⁰, Nuria Varo-Cruz¹¹, Juan A. Bermejo¹², Daniel Cejudo¹¹, Luis Felipe López-Jurado¹³, Frederic Vandeperre^1,2

1: Institute of Marine Sciences - Okeanos, Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Portugal; 2: Institute of Marine Research – IMAR, Horta, Portugal; 3: Ecosystem Science Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Monterey, California, USA; 4: Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Monterey, California, USA; 5: Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research (ACCSTR), University of Florida, Florida, USA; 6: Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO), InBIO Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal; 7: Estação de Biologia Marinha do Funchal, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal; 8: BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal; 9: Department of Ecoscience, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; 10: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, Florida, USA; 11: Cetaceans and Marine Research Institute of the Canary Islands (CEAMAR), Canary Islands, Spain; 12: Observatorio Ambiental Granadilla (OAG), Canary Islands, Spain; 13: Departamento de Biologia, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

*Habitat use of pacific juvenile green turtles along the coast of north costa rica

Fanqi Wu^1,2,3,4, Veronica Valverde-Cantillo⁵, Chelsea E. Clyde-Brockway^2,3, Mario Espinoza^5,6, Maike Heidemeyer⁹, Christopher G. Lowe⁷, James R. Spotila^3,4,8, Frank V. Paladino^2,3

1: Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, United States of America; 2: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America; 3: The Leatherback Trust, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America; 4: Global Cause Foundation, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America; 5: Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica; 6: MigraMar, Bodega Bay, California, United States of America; 7: Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, California, United States of America; 8: Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States of America; 9: Equipo Tora Carey, El Jobo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

*Spatial ecology of the Eastern Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas): Insights from satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis

Alejandra Guadalupe Sandoval-Lugo^1,2,3, Jeffrey A. Seminoff⁴, Catherine E. Hart^5,3, César Paúl Ley- Quiñónez^1,3, Carlos Delgado-Trejo⁶, A. Alonso Aguirre⁷, Norma Patricia Sevilla-Muñoz⁸, Alan Alfredo Zavala-Norzagaray^1,3

1: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico; 2: Universidad Autónoma de Occidente; 3: Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias; 4: NOAA-Southwest Fisheries Science Center; 5: Investigación, Capacitación y Soluciones Ambientales y Sociales A.C.; 6: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán; 7: Colorado State University; 8: Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones y estudios sobre el Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo

*Photo-identification and laser photogrammetry of green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) foraging in Semporna, Sabah

Jeethvendra Kirishnamoorthie^1,2, Gonzalo Araujo³, Hideaki Nishizawa⁴, Juanita Joseph¹

1: Borneo Marine Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.; 2: Tropical Research and Conservation Centre (TRACC), Pom Pom Island, 91307 Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia.; 3: Marine Research and Conservation Foundation, Somerset, TA4 3SJ, UK; 4: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

*In-water relative abundance and distribution of sea turtles along the east coast of South Africa

Natalie A. dos Santos¹, Ronel Nel^1,2, Diane Z. M. Le Gouvello¹, Grant Smith³, Santosh Bachoo⁴

1: Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; 2: University of Washington, United States; 3: Sharklife Conservation Group, South Africa; 4: Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, South Africa

*Mapping potential foraging areas for loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: the role of climate change and biotic factors

Chiara Mancino¹, Sandra Hochscheid², Luigi Maiorano¹

1: Sapienza University, Italy; 2: Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy

*Assessing the current state of seagrass meadows and their interactions with green turtles in St. John, USVI

Kianna Pattengale¹, Alexandra Gulick^2,3, Karen Bjorndal², Paul Jobsis¹

1: University of the Virgin Islands; 2: Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, University of Florida; 3: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

*Microplastic ingestion by sea turtles around Tokyo Bay: level of water pollution influences ingestion amounts

Riko Kimura¹, Emi Inoguchi², Chiyo Kitayama², Ryosuke Fujinuma¹

1: International Christian University, Tokyo Japan; 2: Everlasting Nature of Asia (ELNA)

*Plastic ingestion in marine turtles: insights from different study approaches

Daniel Gonzalez-Paredes^1,2, Gabriela Maria Vélez-Rubio^2,3, Helene Marsh¹, Mark Hamann¹

1: James Cook University, Australia; 2: Karumbé NGO, Uruguay; 3: CURE - Universidad de la República, Uruguay

*Do loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) gut contents reflect the types, colors and sources of plastic pollution in the Southwest Indian Ocean?

Margot Thibault^1,2,5, Ludovic Hoarau¹, Laurent Lebreton², Matthieu Lecorre¹, Mathieu Baret³, Emmanuel Cordier⁴, Stéphane Ciccione³, Sarah-Jeanne Royer², Alexandra ter Halle⁵, Aina Ramanampamonjy⁶, Claire Jean³, Mayeul Dalleau⁷

1: UMR ENTROPIE, University of Reunion Island, Réunion (France); 2: The Ocean Cleanup, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 3: Kelonia, The Marine turtle observatory of Reunion Island; 4: Osu-Réunion, University of Reunion Island; 5: CNRS, University of Toulouse III paul sabatier, UMR IMRCP; 6: Cetamada association, barachois Sainte Marie, Madagascar; 7: Centre Etude et Découverte des Tortues Marines (CEDTM), Saint Leu, Reunion Island

*Plastic pollution and health metrics in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Ecuador: A Comparison of Parks and the Mainland.

Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez^1,2,3,4, Gregory A. Lewbart^2,3,5, Helen Chadwick⁶, Tania Toapanta⁷, Elvis D. Okoffo⁷, Patricia Secoura³, Daniela Alarcón-Ruales^1,2,3, Jen Jones⁸, Ceri Lewis⁹, Tamara Galloway⁹, Leo Zurita-Arthos^2,3, Fernando Cisneros^2,3, Andres Moreira-Mendieta^2,3, Esteban Cobos³, Cristina Vintimilla-Palacios³, Felipe Vallejo⁴, Cristina Miranda⁴, Rubén Alemán¹⁰, Kamila Escobar¹⁰, Jason Castañeda¹¹, Bryan Wallace¹², Brendan J. Godley⁶, Matthew Cole¹³, Penelope Lindeque¹³, Shelly Vaden³, Kevin V. Thomas⁷, Dominique A. Potvin¹, Carlos A. Valle^2,3, Kathy A. Townsend¹

1: School of Science, Technology & Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast UniSC, Queensland, Australia.; 2: Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galápagos, Ecuador.; 3: Galápagos Science Center GSC, USFQ & UNC-Chapel Hill, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galápagos, Ecuador.; 4: Fundación EquilibrioAzul, Puerto López, Ecuador.; 5: College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.; 6: Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, United Kingdom.; 7: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia.; 8: Galapagos Conservation Trust GCT, London, United Kingdom.; 9: College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope, Stocker Road Exeter, United Kingdom.; 10: Parque Nacional Machalilla, Puerto López, Ecuador.; 11: Parque Nacional Galápagos, Isla San Cristóbal, Ecuador.; 12: Ecolibrium, Inc. Boulder, Colorado, United States.; 13: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, United Kingdom

*Ubiquitous presence of plastic additives and persistent organic pollutants in sea turtles from Korean coastal waters

Ye lim Moon^1,2, Won Joon Shim^1,2, Gi Myung Han¹, Sung Yong Ha¹, Mi Jang¹, Il-Hun Kim³, Sang Hee Hong¹

1: Ecological Risk Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Republic of Korea; 2: Department of Ocean Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; 3: National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seochun-gun, Republic of Korea

*Estimating annual leatherback bycatch in the Pacific Ocean by fishery and country to inform targeted conservation strategies

Anna Antonia Ortega^1,2,3, Nicola Mitchell^1,2, George Shillinger³

1: School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Australia; 2: Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Australia; 3: Upwell Turtles

*Characterizing fisheries bycatch of marine turtles in the Pacific waters of Panama and Colombia through rapid assessment surveys

Juan M. Rguez-Baron^1,2, Fiorella Vilela^2,3, Marino Abrego⁴, Alexander Tobón², Dania Bermúdez², Ana K. Gómez², Yesenia Suarez², Amanda S. Williard¹

1: University of North Carolina Wilmington, The United Estates; 2: JUSTSEA Foundation, Colombia; 3: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 4: Ministerio de Ambiente de Panamá, Panamá

Going beyond the reference genome in loggerhead turtle conservation genomics

Astrid Luna-Ortiz^1,12, Alessia Cherin^1,12, Alberto Abreu-Grobois², David J. Duffy³, Abdulmaula Hamza^4,5, Elizabeth Labastida-Estrada⁶, César P. Ley-Quiñónez⁷, Raúl Llera-Herrera², Salima Machkour M`Rabet⁸, Adolfo Marco⁹, Dimitris Margaritoulis¹⁰, Oguz Turkozan¹¹, Alan Zavala-Norzagaray⁷, Cinta Pegueroles^1,13, Marta Pascual1^1,13, Carlos Carreras^1,13

1: University of Barcelona and IRBio, Spain; 2: Unidad Académica Mazatlan, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 811, Mazatlan, Sinaloa 82000 Mexico; 3: The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital, University of Florida, St. Augus-tine, FL, 32080, USA); 4: Libyan Sea Turtle Program, Environment General Authority, Alfateh University, PO Box 13793, Tripoli, Libya; 5: Biology Department, Faculty of Education, University of Tripoli, souk Aljomoa, Tripoli, Libya.; 6: Colección Nacional de Helmintos. Departamento de Zoología. Instituto de Biología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 7: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regio-nal Unidad Sinaloa, Departamento de Medio Ambiente.; 8: Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular y Conservación, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Chetumal; 9: Department of Biodiversity Conservation, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Americo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain; 10: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, GR-10432 Athens, Greece; 11: Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 09010 Aydın, Turkey; 12: Should be considered first authors; 13: Should be considered senior authors

Genome drivers of adaptation in the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting populations.

Anna Barbanti¹, Dimitris Margaritoulis², ALan F. Rees², Oguz Turkozan³, Celal Ulger³, Mona Khalil⁴, Robin Snape^5,6, Broderick Annette C⁶, Andreas Demetropoulos⁷, A. Abdulmaula Hamza^8,9, Yaniv Levy^10,11, Marta Pascual^1,12, Carlos Carreras^1,12, Cinta Pegueroles^1,12

1: Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and IrBio, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain; 2: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, Athens, Greece; 3: Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 09010 Aydın, Turkey; 4: MEDASSET, PO Box 19, Tyre, Lebanon; 5: Society for Protection of Turtles, Kyrenia, Cyprus; 6: Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK; 7: Cyprus Wildlife Society, Nicosia, Cyprus; 8: Biology Department, Faculty of Education, University of Tripoli, souk Aljomoa, Tripoli Libya.; 9: Libyan Sea Turtle Program, Environment General Authority, Alfateh University, PO Box 13793, Tripoli, Libya; 10: Israel Sea Turtle Rescue Center, National Nature and Parks Authority, Gan Leumi Beit Yannay, Kfar Vitkin, Israel; 11: Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel; 12: Should be considered senior authors

Overview of the population genetics and connectivity of sea turtles in the East Asia Region and their conservation implications

Connie Ka Yan Ng^1,2, Takashi Ishihara^3,4, Tomoko Hamabata⁵, Hideaki Nishizawa⁶, Min Liu⁷, Jia Hao Song⁷, Tsung Hsien Li^8,9,10, Chia Ling Fong^11,12,13, Dae Yeon Moon¹⁴, Il Hun Kim¹⁵

1: Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China; 2: Golden Honu Services of Oceania, Hawaii, U.S.A.; 3: Sea Turtle Association of Japan, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan; 4: AQUARIUM x ART átoa, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; 5: Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; 6: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan; 7: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; 8: National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung 94450, Taiwan; 9: Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan; 10: Institute of Marine Ecology and Conservation, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan; 11: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 12: Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 13: TurtleSpot Taiwan, Pingtung, Taiwan; 14: Ocean&Fish Research, Kijang-gun, Busan, Republic of Korea; 15: Department of Ecology and Conservation, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon 33662, Republic of Korea

Genetic diversity and phylogeographic patterns of mtDNA haplotypes of Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Thailand

Worata Klinsawat¹, Sanit Piyapattanakorn², Preechayada Thaengthong², Thanida Haetrakul^3,4, Nitiwadee Keschumras³, Sirawich Srisiri³, Thanaphan Chomcheun⁵, Oranee Jongkolpath⁵, Nantarika Chansue⁴, Stephen G. Dunbar^6,7

1: Conservation Ecology Program, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, 10150 Thailand; 2: Center of Excellence for Marine Biotechnology, Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand; 3: Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animal Research Center of Excellence, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand; 4: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand; 5: Eastern Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Center, Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Rayong, 21170, Thailand; 6: Marine Research Group, Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, 92350 USA; 7: Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR, Inc.), Loma Linda, California, 92350 USA

Genome-wide SNPs refine population connectivity and show promise for fine-scale genetic stock identification in Gulf of Mexico loggerhead turtles

Ian Silver-Gorges¹, Lisa M. Komoroske², Jamie Adkins Stoll², John D. Swenson², David S. Addison³, Kristen M. Hart⁴, Jacob Lasala⁵, Anton D. Tucker⁵, Brian M. Shamblin⁶, Mariana M.P.B. Fuentes¹

1: Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA; 2: Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA; 3: Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL, USA; 4: United States Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Davie, FL, USA; 5: Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, USA; 6: Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Small ontogenetic changes in sex ratios at the largest loggerhead turtle rookery in the North Pacific

Hideo Hatase, Shun Watanabe, Toru Kobayashi

Kindai University, Japan

Non-lethal sex determination in turtles using DNA methylation.

Eugenie C. Yen¹, James D. Gilbert¹, Alice Balard¹, Inês O. Afonso¹, Kirsten Fairweather², Artur Lopes², Sandra M. Correia³, Albert Taxonera², Christophe Eizaguirre¹

1: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Associação Projeto Biodiversidade, Local 26, Santa Maria 4111, Ilha do Sal, Cabo Verde; 3: Instituto do Mar, Cova de Inglesa, C.P. 132. Mindelo, Ilha do São Vicente, Cabo Verde

*Does seagrass grazed by green turtles retain habitat value for fish?

Nerine Constant, Alan B. Bolten, Karen A. Bjorndal

Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research & Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

*Exploring the potential of dietary DNA metabarcoding in sea turtles

Sophia A Coveney¹, Tamsyn M Uren Webster¹, Sofia Consuegra¹, Graeme C Hays^1,2, Nicole Esteban¹

1: Swansea University, United Kingdom; 2: Deakin University, Australia

*Active selection of native seagrass in Halophila stipulacea-dominated meadows among juvenile green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) identified using fine-scale acoustic telemetry in U.S.V.I.

Taylor Brunson, Paul Jobsis, Kayla Blincow, Andrew McGregor

University of the Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S.

*The underlying factors driving variation in social interactions between juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Brewers Bay, St. Thomas, USVI

Corinne Eva Johnson^1,2, Jordan Matley³, Nathan J. Robinson^4,5, Andrew Maurer⁶, Paul Jobsis²

1: College of Science and Mathematics, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI, USA; 2: Center for Marine and Environmental Science, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI, USA; 3: Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia; 4: Institut De Ciencies Del Mar – Spanish National Research Council, Spain; 5: Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain; 6: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, USA

*Short-term effects of biologger attachment on the behaviour of juvenile green turtles assessed using animal-borne cameras and UAVs

Ruth Doñate-Ordóñez^1,2, Sophie Mills³, Damianos Chatzievangelou¹, Jack Cuffley⁴, Candace Fields⁴, Sebastian Hoefer⁵, Alex Smith⁴, Theodora Pinou⁶, Nathan Jack Robinson^1,7

1: Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain; 2: University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal; 3: Marine Turtle Research, Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA; 4: Cape Eleuthera Institute, PO Box EL-26029, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, the Bahamas; 5: College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; 6: Department of Biology, Western Connecticut State University, Connecticut; 7: Fundación Oceanogràfic, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain

Overview and Outcomes of the Sea Turtle for Ocean Research and Monitoring (STORM) program in the SWIO

Olivier Bousquet^1,2, Stéphane Ciccione³, Katia Ballorain⁴, Anne Barat^1,4, Antoine Laforge^1,5, Aurélien Prat^1,11, Jonathan Monsinjon⁶, Philippe Gaspar⁵, Claire Jean³, Manon Nivière⁴, Ronel Nel², Cheryl Sanchez⁷, Moussa Ben Antoy⁸, Zouboudou Halifa⁹, Sophie Marinesque¹⁰, Arthur Vidard¹¹, Heather Richards⁷, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley⁷, Mathieu Barret³, Diane Le Gouvello², Mayeul Dalleau³, Jérome Bourjea⁶, Maxime Amy¹⁰

1: LACy, La Réunion, France; 2: Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; 3: Kelonia, La Réunion, France; 4: CEDTM, La Réunion, France; 5: Mercator-Océan International, Toulouse, France; 6: Ifremer, DOI océan Indien, La Réunion, France; 7: Seychelles Islands Foundation, Mahé, Seychelles; 8: Parc National de Mohéli, Comoros; 9: ADSEI, Comoros; 10: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, La Réunion, France; 11: Inria, Grenoble, France

*Recalculating: do inherited navigational instructions in Loggerhead sea turtles account for changing geomagnetic cues?

Jadyn M. Sethna, Dana S. Lim, Isabelle N. Sechrest, Catherine M.F. Lohmann, Kenneth J. Lohmann

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

*By-catch of sea turtles in the ray nets fishery in the gulf of Gabes, Tunisia

Maissa Louhichi¹, Imed Jribi¹, Alexandre Girard²

1: Sfax Faculty of Sciences P.O. Box 1171, 3000 Sfax, Tunisia; 2: PatriNat, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle , rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France

*Behavioral measurements of sea turtles interacting with lighted gillnets

Janie L Reavis^1,2, Blair E Witherington², Michael J Bresette², John Wang³, Dale DeNardo¹, Jesse F Senko⁴

1: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, AZ, United States of America; 2: Inwater Research Group, FL, United States of America; 3: Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, HI, United States of America; 4: School of Ocean Futures, Arizona State University, AZ, United States of America

*Illuminated pound nets reduce sea turtle bycatch

Kayla M. Burgher^1,5, Wendy Piniak², Larisa Avens³, John Wang⁴, James Collins¹, Jesse Senko⁵

1: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; 2: Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA; 3: National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA; 4: National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; 5: School of Ocean Futures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

*Incorporating fisher metrics in assessments of sea turtle and other marine megafauna bycatch reduction technologies

Cindy Vargas^1,3, John H. Wang², James P. Collins¹, Jesse Senko³

1: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA; 2: NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; 3: School for Ocean Futures, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

*Untangling the unknown: marine turtle bycatch within a data poor Mediterranean small-scale fishery

Josie L. Palmer¹, Hasan D. Akbora², Damla Beton³, Burak Ali Çiçek², Brendan J. Godley¹, Kristian Metcalfe¹, Meryem Özkan³, Robin T. E. Snape^1,3, Annette C. Broderick¹

1: Marine Turtle Research Group, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK; 2: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, 99628, Famagusta, North Cyprus via Mersin 10, Turkey; 3: Society for the Protection of Turtles, Levent Apt. 1 Daire 1, Ulus Sokak, Gönyelli, North Cyprus

*Reducing turtle bycatch in the Adriatic Sea: testing the efficiency of flexible Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) for multispecies trawlers.

Giulia Baldi¹, Alice Scuratti¹, Valeria Angelini², Giulia Cerritelli¹, Gaia Dell'uomo¹, Kamyla Lombardi Moraes², Francesco Manzi³, Martina Monticelli², Sauro Pari², Pasquale Salvemini³, Paolo Casale¹

1: Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy; 2: Fondazione Cetacea onlus, Viale Torino 7/A, 47838 Riccione, Italy; 3: Associazione Panda Molfetta, via Puccini 16, 70056 Molfetta, BA, Italy

*Which turtle, and where? Community survey and satellite telemetry in Sumatra, Indonesia, to support protection at sea

Adela Hemelikova^1,2, Teuku Reza Ferasyi^3,4, Awaluddin Awaluddin^4,5, Nur Fadli⁶, Pavel Zoubek², Tomas Ouhel^2,7, Lusi Rahmayani^2,8, Petr Sramek⁹

1: Department of Ecology, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; 2: Research and Conservation Department, Liberec Zoo, Liberec, Czech Republic; 3: Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia; 4: Center for Tropical Veterinary Studies-One Health Collaboration Center of Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia; 5: Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia; 6: Faculty of Marine and Fisheries, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; 7: Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic; 8: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Andalas University Padang, Indonesia; 9: Brno Zoo, Brno, Czech Republic

A road map for the Marine Turtle Conservation Act

Ann Marie Lauritsen

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States of America

Global trends in sea turtle research and conservation: Using symposium abstracts to assess past biases and future opportunities

Nathan Jack Robinson^1,2, Jacopo Aguzzi^1,3, Sofia Arias¹, Christopher Gatto⁴, Sophie Mills⁵, Andrea Monte⁶, Laura St.Andrews⁷, Adam Yaney-Keller⁴, Pilar Santidrian Tomillo⁸

1: Institut De Ciences Del Mar, Spain; 2: Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain; 3: Stazione Zoologica di Napoli (SZN) Anton Dohrn, 80121 Naples, Italy; 4: School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; 5: Marine Turtle Research, Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, FL, USA; 6: Bio-Ecologia Marina, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; 7: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, United States; 8: Animal Demography and Ecology Unit, GEDA, Institut Mediterrani d′Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Miquèl Marques 21, 01790 Esporles, Spain

The MTSG Burning Issues Initiative: The long and winding road to a shared understanding of global sea turtle conservation priorities by and for the people who care about them

Marine Turtle Specialist Group Burning Issues Working Group

IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group

Marine turtles at the Saudi Arabian Vision 2030 Programme: conservation hotspots, distribution, migratory pathways in the Red Sea

Hector Barrios-Garrido¹, Abdulrazaq Alatawi², Ali Algohane², Ali Mumtaz³, Judy Salamah³, Noura Islam³, Takahiro Shimada⁴, Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem⁵, Natalie Wildermann⁶, Ivor Williams³, Omar Al Attas³, Carlos Duarte⁶, Ricardo Ramalho²

1: Beacon Development, KAUST Innovation, Saudi Arabia. University of Zulia, Venezuela. TropWATER, Australia; 2: Beacon Development, KAUST Innovation, Saudi Arabia.; 3: Red Sea Global, Saudi Arabia; 4: Aquatic Threatened Species Program, Queensland Government. Australia; 5: KAUST, Saudi Arabia; 6: ​​Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology, KAUST. Saudi Arabia

Two decades of dedicated conservation: An overview of TREE Foundation’s impact on sea turtle conservation along the east coast of India”

Supraja Dharini

TREE Foundation, India

*Insights into foraging aggregations and nesting of marine turtles in Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah, Malaysia

Gavin Jolis^1,2, Juanita Joseph^2,3, Hideaki Nishizawa⁴, Irwan Isnain⁵, Hussien Muin⁶, Sofia Johari⁷, Ejria Saleh^2,3

1: WWF-Malaysia; 2: Borneo Marine Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah; 3: Small Islands Research Centre (SIRC), Faculty of Science and Natural Resource, Universiti Malaysia Sabah; 4: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University; 5: Sabah Parks; 6: Sabah Wildlife Department; 7: Kudat Turtle Conservation Society

*Combining UAV and multi-sensors dataloggers to estimate spatio-temporal trends in fine scale density

Chiara Agabiti¹, Livia Tolve², Giulia Baldi¹, Marina Zucchini³, Salvatore Tuccio³, Federica Restelli¹, Daniela Freggi³, Paolo Luschi¹, Paolo Casale¹

1: Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 2: Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy; 3: Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Associazione Caretta caretta, Lampedusa and Linosa, Italy

*Breeding sex ratios of leatherbacks (Dermochelys coriacea) in the South West Indian Ocean

Lauren Rachel Wienand¹, Ronel Nel¹, Lorenz Hauser²

1: Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; 2: University of Washington

*Reconstructing demographic history between two contrasting leatherback populations using genomics

Christopher R Nolte¹, Ronel Nel^2,3, Lorenz Hauser³, Justin R Perrault⁴, Hannah B Vander Zanden¹

1: Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; 2: Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Summerstrand South Campus, Gqeberha, South Africa; 3: School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 4: Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Juno Beach, FL, USA

Long term monitoring of male sea turtles in southeast Florida, USA

Jeffrey Guertin¹, Dean Bagley^1,2, Michael Bresette¹, Annessia Michaels¹, Cody Mott¹

1: Inwater Research Group, Inc., United States of America; 2: University of Central Florida, United States of America

*Assessing the impact of climate change on green turtle hatchlings at Turtle Islands Park, Malaysia: a morphometric, hatching success and sex ratio analysis

Giorgia Colombo, Juanita Joseph

Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia

*Efficacy of seawater irrigation to mitigate the impact of climate change on hatchling survival and sex determination in green turtles

David Morton Adams¹, Sean A. Williamson¹, Roger G. Evans^2,3, Richard D. Reina¹

1: School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Australia; 2: Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia; 3: Pre-clinical Critical Care Unit, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

*Ex-Situ conservation of Olive Ridley Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Panadura Beach, Sri lanka

Thushan Kapurusinghe, Rashmi Rasogya Thudugala, Jayangani Elizebeth Theswa, Udari Bandara, Krishan Wewelwala

Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) - Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

*Enhancing sea turtle stranding monitoring on the tunisian coast: leveraging citizen science with two distinct tools – social networks and a mobile application

Hamed Mallat^1,2, Wiem Boussellaa¹, Arij Sadraoui¹, Achref Chouaibi¹, Asma Chaabane¹, Zouhour Bouain¹, Maissa Louhichi¹, Marwen Abderrahim², Emna Derouiche², Yassine Ramzi Sghaier², Imed Jribi¹

1: BIOME Lab, Sfax Faculty of Sciences, University of Sfax, Road of Soukra km 4 - BP 1171-3000 Sfax, Tunisia; 2: TunSea (Tunisian Citizen Science Association), 33 road of Irak, Soukra. Tunisia

*A study on the effectiveness of school awareness programmes to increase knowledge about sea turtles by considering selected schools in two provinces in Sri Lanka.

Thushan Kapurusinghe, Udari Bandara, Uthpala Wickramasinghe, Rashmi Thudugala, Shantha Jayaweera, Pubuduini Mahesha Peiris

Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) - Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka