ISTS Symposium43 Program/Agenda

Session

In-water Biology #5

Time:

Wednesday, 26/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

TURTLEWATCH EGYPT: A CITIZEN SCIENCE INITIATIVE FOR SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION IN THE EGYPTIAN RED SEA

Micol Montagna^1,2, Agnese Mancini^1,3, Valeria Roma¹, Abdallah Taher^1,2, Maja Zamencka¹, Toka Eldakamawy^1,2, Mariam Amr Tawila^1,2, Mahmoud Hanafy^4,5

¹TurtleWatch Egypt 2.0, EG; ²Marine Life Conservation and Preservation Foundation, EG; ³Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, MX; ⁴Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA), EG; ⁵Department of Marine Biology, Suez Canal University, EG

8:45am - 9:00am

CITIZEN SCIENCE CONTRIBUTION TO IN-WATER SEA TURTLES MONITORING: TWO DECADES OF INSIGHTS FROM REUNION ISLAND

Claire Jean¹, Marie Lauret-Stepler¹, Mathieu Barret¹, Katia Ballorain², Antoine Laforge², Stéphane Ciccione¹

¹Kelonia, l'observatoire des tortues marines, Saint-Leu, Réunion (France); ²CEDTM, Centre d'Etude et de Découverte des Tortues Marines, Saint-Leu, Réunion (France)

9:00am - 9:15am

SEA TURTLES OF CAGARRAS ISLANDS, A MARINE PROTECTED AREA IN SOUTHEASTER BRAZIL

Suzana Machado Guimarães^1,2, Daniel Vasconcelos Shimada Brotto^1,3, Aline Aguiar¹

¹Projeto Ilhas do Rio – Instituto Mar Adentro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ²Projeto Aruanã – Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais Littoralis, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ³Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Marinha e Ambientes Costeiros, Universidade Federal Flumines, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

9:15am - 9:30am

DIVING WITH LUNGS HALF-FULL? DIVING BEHAVIOR OF JUVENILE GREEN TURTLES IN SHALLOW MANGROVES CREEKS IN THE BAHAMAS

Ruth Doñate-Ordóñez^1,2, Sophie K. Mills³, José M. Reyes-González¹, Damianos Chatzievangelou¹, Nathan J. Robinson^1,4

¹Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain; ²University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal; ³School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; ⁴Fundación Oceanografic, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain

9:30am - 9:45am

FIRST LOGGERHEAD'S SIMULATIONS OF THE SEA TURTLE ACTIVE MOVEMENT MODEL (STAMM), VALIDATED WITH OBSERVED TURTLE TRAJECTORIES.

Julien Temple-Boyer¹, Philippe Gaspar¹, Tony Candela^1,2,3, Stefano Ciavatta¹, Dana K. Briscoe^4,5, Masanori Kurita⁶, Denise M. Parker⁷, Jeffrey J. Polovina⁸, Marc R. Rice⁹, Tomomi Saito¹⁰, George H. Balazs¹¹

¹Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, France; ²Upwell, Monterey, California, USA; ³Aquarium La Rochelle, Centre d’Etudes et de Soins pour les Tortues Marines, La Rochelle, France; ⁴Woods Institute for the Environment, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ⁵5Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA; ⁶Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, Nagoya, Japan; ⁷Golden Honu Services of Oceania, Newport, Oregon, USA; ⁸Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA (retired), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; ⁹HPA Sea Turtle Research Program, Kamuela, Hawaii, USA; ¹⁰Usa Marine Biological Institute, Kochi University, Tosa, Kochi, Japan; ¹¹Golden Honu Services of Oceania, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

9:45am - 10:00am

*WATER-BORNE CHEMICALS RATHER THAN APPEARANCE FROM BIOFOULING CAN PROMOTE PLASTIC DEBRIS INGESTION IN GREEN TURTLES (CHELONIA MYDAS)

Lyu Lyu, Katsufumi Sato

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan