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ISTS Symposium43 Program/Agenda

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Session Overview

Session

In-water Biology #1

Time:

Tuesday, 25/Mar/2025:

8:30am - 10:00am

Session Chair: Mariela Pajuelo
Session Chair: Nathan Jack Robinson
Session Chair: Gabriela Manuela Velez-Rubio
Session Chair: Ryan Welsh

Location: Omari Hall

Session Topics:

In-water Biology (Behaviour, Ecology, Migration, Telemetry, and Foraging)

Session Abstract

*Denotes Archie Carr Student Award candidate; ^ Denotes Grassroots Award candidate; Presenting author is underlined

Presentations

8:30am - 8:45am

FOOD PREFERENCE AND FORAGING SITE FIDELITY IN GREEN TURTLES REVEALED BY TRANSLOCATION EXPERIMENTS

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

¹The University of Tokyo, Japan; ²Kuroshima Research Station, Sea Turtle Association of Japan; ³Meijo University, Japan

8:45am - 9:00am

*REVEALING THE ORIGIN OF THE LOGGERHEAD TURTLES IN ATLANTO-MEDITERRANEAN FORAGING AREAS USING INDIVIDUAL GENOMIC ASSIGNMENTS

Helena Vela Garcia¹, Astrid Luna-Ortiz¹, Silvia Giralt², Daniela Freggi³, Dimitris Margaritoulis⁴, Oguz Turkozan⁵, Jesús Tomás⁶, Francisca Pujol⁷, Ana Liria-Loza^8,9, Carolina Fernández-Maldonado¹⁰, Marta Pascual¹, Cinta Pegueroles^1,11, Carlos Carreras¹

¹Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística and IRBio, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal, 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; ²Fundación parala Conservación y la Recuperación de Animales Marinos (CRAM), 08820 El Prat de Llobregat, Spain; ³Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center,Punta Sottile, 92031 Lampedusa AG, Italy; ⁴ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, GR-10432 Athens, Greece; ⁵Aydın AdnanMenderes University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology, 09010 Aydın, Turkey; ⁶Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, University of Valencia, Apdo. 22085, E-46071, Valencia, Spain; ⁷Fundación Palmaaquarium, Mallorca, Spain; ⁸IU-ECOAQUA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Parque Científico Tecnológico Marino, Las Palmas, Spain; ⁹NGO ADS Biodiversidad, Las Palmas, Spain; ¹⁰Seashore Environment and Fauna, Spain; ¹¹Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

9:00am - 9:15am

IDENTIFYING NORTH ATLANTIC FORAGING GROUNDS OF NESTING LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLES (DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA) ON JUNO BEACH, FLORIDA USING TELEMETRY AND STABLE ISOTOPES

Derek Aoki^1,2,4, Annie Page², Kelly R. Stewart³, George L. Shillinger⁴, Justin R. Perrault¹

¹Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Juno Beach, Florida, USA; ²Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA; ³The Ocean Foundation, Washington, DC, USA; ⁴Upwell Turtles, Monterey, California, USA

9:15am - 9:30am

STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS REVEALS ECOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF SEA TURTLES

Mariela Pajuelo^1,2, Joanna Alfaro Shigueto^2,3, Jeffrey C. Mangel², Nelly de Paz⁴, Jeffrey A. Seminoff⁵

¹Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, United States of America; ²Pro Delphinus, Octavio Bernal 572-5, Lima 11, Peru; ³Facultad de Biología Marina, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru; ⁴ACOREMA-Áreas Costeras y Recursos Marinos, Pisco, Peru; ⁵NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla California 92037 USA

9:30am - 9:45am

*REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE DIET OF GREEN TURTLES INFERRED FROM STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS AND SATELLITE TELEMETRY

Hugo Francis Mann¹, Natalie E. Wildermann¹, Chuancheng Fu¹, Hector Barrios-Garrido¹, Takahiro Shimada², Antonio Delgado-Huertas³, Carlos M. Duarte¹

¹Marine Science Program, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia; ²Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, 41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, QLD, 4102, Australia; ³Laboratorio de Biogeoquímica de Isótopos Estables, IACT-CSIC, 18100, Armilla Granada, Spain

9:45am - 10:00am

*VALIDATING EPIBIOTIC BARNACLES AS ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF HABITAT USE IN SEA TURTLES

Sara Isabel Claverie García¹, Sofía Ten², Morane Clavel-Henry³, Joseph Pfaller⁴, Nathan Jack Robinson^3,5

¹University of Barcelona; ²University of Valencia; ³Institut de Ciènces del Mar (ICM); ⁴Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), NOAA; ⁵Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunidad Valenciana