Towards effective restoration of marine turtles in Jordan’s Aqaba coast line

Abeer Hisham Bilbeisi

Jordan Society for the Conservation of Turtles & Tortoises, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of

*Carbon financing contributing to sea turtle conservation in Sri Lanka

Thushan Kapurusinghe, Mithma De Silva, Manuri Pankaja Kapurusinghe, Saman Rathnakumara, Kavindu Maduhansa

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

*Overcoming barriers to knowledge: A multi-lingual systematic review of movement and migratory connectivity of green sea turtles around Southeast Asia

Harris Wei Khang Heng^1,2, Kristine Camille V. Buenafe^1,2,3, The Cuong Chu⁴, Rose Ellis⁵, Chia-Ling Fong^6,7, Daphne Z. Ho^7,8, Sekar M.C. Herandarudewi⁹, Connie Ka-Yan Ng^10,11, Janmanee Panyawai¹², Nguyen Trong Duc¹³, Daniel C. Dunn^1,2

1: School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Australia; 2: Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Australia; 3: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Queensland Biosciences Precinct (QBP), Queensland, Australia; 4: The International Union for Conservation of Nature - Vietnam; 5: Khmer Ocean Life, Cambodia; 6: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 7: TurtleSpot Taiwan; 8: Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility, Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 9: Research Center for Oceanography, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN), Indonesia; 10: 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; 11: Golden Honu Services of Oceania, Hawaii, U.S.A.; 12: Seaweed and Seagrass Research Unit, Prince of Songkhla University, Thailand; 13: Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Endangered Species, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam

*A first global network model to describe known green sea turtle migratory connectivity

Jaime Restrepo^1,2, Dina Nisthar^1,2, Wei-Khang Heng^1,2, Lily K. Bentley^1,2, Anthony J. Richardson^1,2,3, Daniel C. Dunn^1,2

1: The University of Queensland, Australia; 2: Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science; 3: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

*Marine turtle management areas: A fine-resolution spatial solution beneath Southeast Asian Regional Management Units

Rushan Bin Abdul Rahman^1,2, Mark Hamann¹, Juanita Joseph³, Putu Liza Mustika¹, Nicolas Pilcher⁴, Windia Adnyana⁵, Jaya Ratha⁶, Thuy Nguyen Thi Dieu⁷

1: James Cook University, Townsville; 2: Conservation International - Singapore; 3: Universiti Malaysia Sabah; 4: Marine Research Foundation; 5: Universitas Udayana; 6: Thrive Conservation; 7: WWF - Vietnam

*Under threat: Previously undocumented hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting on the west end of St. Croix, U.S.V.I.

Natalie K. Monnier¹, Sabrina C. Sorace¹, Donna Boles², Joshua Calcano², Makayla Kelso², Claudia D. Lombard³, Lawrence Wood⁴, Sean Kelly⁵, Paul Jobsis¹, Kelly R. Stewart²

1: University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; 2: The Ocean Foundation, Washington, D.C. U.S.A.; 3: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; 4: National Save the Sea Turtle Foundation, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida U.S.A.; 5: Division of Fish and Wildlife, Government of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Minimum Cost Estimate to Protect 80% — 100% of Western Pacific Leatherback Nests at the Jeen Womom Coastal Park in the Bird's Head Region of Papua, Indonesia

Fitryanti Pakiding^1,2, Deasy Lontoh², Meity Mongdong³, Manjula Tiwari⁴

1: Department of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314, Indonesia; 2: Science for Conservation Program, Research and Community Service Institute of Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314, Indonesia; 3: Konservasi Indonesia, Jakarta Selatan 12510, Indonesia; 4: Ocean Ecology Network, Research Affiliate of NOAA—Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California 92037, USA

*Environmental indicators predicting loggerhead sea turtle occurrence in southern california during El Niño conditions

Aileen Lavelle

Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

*A new framework for survival estimation of sea turtles

Naoto Inoue¹, Takashi Ishihara^2,3

1: Kobe University; 2: AQUARIUM×ART atoa; 3: Sea Turtle Association of Japan

*Population genetics of foraging green (Chelonia mydas) and foraging and nesting hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Grenada, West Indies.

Naomi Westlake¹, Kate Charles², Brian Shamblin³, Jonnel Edwards⁴, Kenrith Carter², Martin Attrill¹, David Marancik⁴, Clare Embling¹

1: University of Plymouth, UK; 2: Ocean Spirits Inc., Grenada; 3: University of Georgia, USA; 4: St. George's University, Grenada

*Uncrewed Aerial Systems as tools for green turtle population assessment in coastal marine protected areas in Uruguay

Natalia S. Teryda^1,2, Gabriela M. Velez-Rubio^2,3, Laura Prosdocimi⁴, Brian Jeffery⁵, Raymond R. Carthy⁶

1: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, USA.; 2: Karumbe NGO, Montevideo, Uruguay; 3: Sección de Oceanografía y Ecología Marina, IECA, Faculta de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Uruguay; 4: Laboratorio de Ecología, Comportamiento y Mamíferos Marinos (LECyMM), Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN-CONICET), Argentina; 5: Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, USA; 6: U.S. Geological Survey, Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

*Prevalence of male-producing nesting sites for endangered sea turtles in the Asia-Pacific region and globally

Melissa Staines¹, Hayley Versace², Jacques-Olivier Laloë³, Christine Madden Hof^4,5, Caitlin Smith^4,6, Elouise Haskin⁴, Anissa Lawrence⁷, Ian Tibbetts¹, David Booth¹, Nicholas Pilcher⁸, Graeme Hays³

1: The University of Queensland, Australia; 2: Conflict Islands Conservation Initiative, Papua New Guinea; 3: Deakin University, Australia; 4: World Wide Fund for Nature - Australia; 5: World Wide Fund for Nature - Global; 6: University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia; 7: TierraMar, Australia; 8: Marine Research Foundation, Sabah Malaysia

*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

*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

*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

*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

*Cracking the code of sea turtle rehabilitation: insights from 23 years at Lampedusa Turtle Rescue (South Mediterranean, Italy)"

Camilla Roldi, Daniela Freggi, Marina Zucchini, Aethus Salvatore Tuccio, Pietro Santalucia

Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Italy

*Clinical evaluation, endoscopic and microbiological investigations for the diagnosis of lung pathologies in sea turtles (Caretta caretta): surveillance in the southern Italian seas

Stefano Ciccarelli¹, Delia Franchini¹, Marialaura Corrente², Carmela Valastro¹, Antonio Di Bello¹

1: Sea Tutle Clinic, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy; 2: Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy

*Morphological identification of chelonians through a multimodal network model with semantic segmentation

Karen Ortiz Ruiz, Mireya Saraí García Vázquez, Alejando Álvaro Ramírez Acosta

Instituto Politécnico Nacional

*How does Fastloc-GPS telemetry improve conservation planning?

Nupur Kale¹, Nicole Esteban¹, Kim Stokes¹, Graeme Hays²

1: Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, United Kingdom; 2: School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Vic. 3280, Australia

*Use of superpixels in graph convolutional networks for the identification of sea turtles

Jesús Fernando Franco López¹, Mireya Saraí García Vázquez², Alejandro Álvaro Ramírez Acosta²

1: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), México; 2: Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), México.

Automatic detection and abundance estimation of green turtles from video footages of unmanned aerial vehicle

Naoya Noguchi¹, Hideaki Nishizawa¹, Taro Shimizu¹, Junichi Okuyama², Shohei Kobayashi³, Kazuyuki Tokuda⁴, Hideyuki Tanaka⁴, Satomi Kondo⁴

1: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University; 2: Subtropical Coastal Research Group, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency; 3: Japan Wildlife Research Center; 4: Everlasting Nature of Asia (ELNA), Ogasawara Marine Center

Comparative analysis of sea turtle identification algorithms focused on non-invasive techniques

Arturo Rios Ramos, Mireya Saraí García Vázquez, Alejandro Álvaro Ramírez Acosta

Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Eats shoots and leaves; the ecology of green turtles in the Lakshadweep archipelago

Hariprasath Ramesh¹, Abhijit Kumar Nageshkumar², Nupur Kale³, Meenakshi Poti^4,5, D.K. Bharti⁶, Muralidharan Manoharakrishnan⁷, Kartik Shanker⁸

1: Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, India; 2: Arcturus Inc, Bangalore, India; 3: Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom; 4: Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium; 5: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; 6: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India; 7: WWF India, Delhi, India; 8: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Photo identification for sea turtles: Flipper scales more accurate than head scales using APHIS

Sophie K. Mills^1,2, Andreu Rotger³, Annabelle M.L. Brooks², Frank V. Paladino¹, Nathan J. Robinson^4,5

1: Center for Marine Conservation Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; 2: Cape Eleuthera Institute, PO Box EL-26029, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, the Bahamas; 3: Animal Demography and Ecology Unit, GEDA – IMEDEA (CSIC/UIB), c. M Marques, 21, 01790, Esporles, Spain; 4: Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain; 5: Fundación Oceanogràfic, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain

Assessing the utility of the Matrice300 RTK UAS for improving the efficiency of sea turtle patrols in the Matura region of North-east Trinidad

Adrian Wilson¹, Deanesh Ramsewak², Kyle Mitchell¹, Cassandra Ali¹, Arvind Jagassar², Brendan Mastay¹, Suzan Lakhan-Baptiste¹

1: Nature Seekers, 10 1/4 Mile Mark Toco Main Road, Matura, Trinidad and Tobago; 2: Centre for Maritime and Ocean Studies, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, Chaguaramas Campus. 962-968 Western Main Road, Chaguaramas, Carenage 110804, Trinidad and Tobago.

Siren Mobile Application: A Tool for Sea Turtle Conservation. The case for combining citizen science and technology to optimize nesting monitoring

Aristide Takoukam Kamla, Cedrick Fogwan, Laurent Sanchez

African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization, Cameroon

Flights of fancy: refining aerial survey techniques to monitor marine turtles across remote nesting sites.

Lauren R Peel, Adam J Mitchell, Paul A Whittock

Pendoley Environmental, Australia

Animal moca-up: instrumenting sea turtles for multidisciplinary oceanographic research in the canary islands

Alejandro Usategui Martín¹, Borja Aguiar González², Francisco José Machín Jiménez², Nuria Varo Cruz³, Richard Heidrich⁴, Ángeles Marrero Díaz², Ángel Rodríguez Santana², Ana Liria Loza¹

1: ADS Biodiversidad, Spain; 2: OFyGA - ECOAQUA; 3: CEAMAR; 4: Fundación Loro Parque

New approaches to sex identification in sea turtles.

Jose Luis Crespo-Picazo¹, Pablo Jesús Marín-García², Evaristo Mañanós³, Mette Skou Hedemann⁴, Daniel García-Párraga¹

1: Fundación Oceanogràfic, Spain; 2: Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Spain; 3: CSIC - Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal, Spain; 4: Aarhus University. Department of Animal and Veterinary Science, Denmark

Facing unexplored depths: a new surgical approach to reach a challenging esophageal segment in Caretta caretta sea turtles

Antonio Di Bello¹, Carmela Valastro¹, Daniela Freggi¹, Chiara Pròfico², Francesco Caprio¹, Stefano Ciccarelli¹, Delia Franchini¹

1: Sea Turtle Clinic, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy; 2: CSC Sea Turtle Rescue Center "Luigi Cagnolaro", Pescara, Italy

Incidence and outcomes of head trauma in injured sea turtles in South Adriatic sea

Delia Franchini¹, Stefano Ciccarelli¹, Carmela Valastro¹, Francesco Caprio¹, 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

Comorbidities in live stranded cold-stunned sea turtles from the Pacific coast of North America

Heather Harris^1,2, Emeline McMann-Chapman¹, Margaret Martinez², Cara Field², James Burke³, Michael Murray⁴, Catherine Hadfield⁵, Martin Haulena⁶, Padraig Duignan², Stephen Raverty⁷, James Rice⁸, Lance Adams⁹, Todd Schmitt¹⁰, Erin LaCasella¹¹, Jeffrey Seminoff¹¹, Brian Stacy¹²

1: Upwell; 2: The Marine Mammal Center; 3: Oregon Coast Aquarium; 4: Monterey Bay Aquarium; 5: Seattle Aquarium; 6: Vancouver Aquarium; 7: Ministry of Agriculture and Lands; 8: Oregon State University; 9: Aquarium of the Pacific; 10: SeaWorld; 11: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center; 12: NOAA Office of Protected Resources

A summary of twenty-five years of sea turtle rehabilitation at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, North Carolina, USA

Kathryn A. Zagzebski¹, Craig A. Harms^1,2,3, Jean F. Beasley¹, Terry A. Meyer¹, Phil Sharpe¹

1: Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, 302 Tortuga Lane, Surf City, NC, 28445, USA; 2: College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, 1060 William Moore Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA; 3: Center for Marine Sciences and Technology, North Carolina State University, 303 College Circle, Morehead City, NC, 28557, USA

How hematological and plasma biochemical profiles benefit turtles undergoing rehabilitation in the southwest Indian Ocean

Mathieu Barret¹, Lisa Schnoebelen², Antoine Ragé³, Fabienne Cadet³, Andréa Moungali³, Tania Gilbert⁴, Francis Schneider³, Stéphane Ciccione¹

1: Kelonia, Réunion (France); 2: INSA Lyon (France); 3: Vétorun, Réunion (France); 4: Facultad de Veterinaria de Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (Spain)

Virtopsy-led sea turtle stranding and salvage programme in Hong Kong: implementation, pitfalls and way forward

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

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

Changes in corticosterone levels of New York’s cold stunned sea turtles from rescue to release

Maxine A Montello¹, Wendy J McFarlane²

1: New York Marine Rescue Center, Riverhead, NY, USA; 2: Division of Natural Sciences, Mathematics & Computing, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA