Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research
Sea turtle research, education, and conservation at the University of Florida.
- Congratulations to ACCSTR graduate student Jazmyn Broxton for successfully defending and presenting her master’s thesis on sea turtle nest success after beach nourishment.
- New pub: This is a first look at whether sea turtles undergo age-related declines in the number of eggs they lay. Surprisingly, sea turtles can maintain their high reproductive output well into old age. However, the chances of dying do not follow a similar trend, with mortality increasing with age.
- These loggerhead tracks are now available on OCEARCH. Check out where they have gone! www.ocearch.org/tracker/deta... www.ocearch.org/tracker/deta... www.ocearch.org/tracker/deta...
- Happy World Sea Turtle Day from the ACCSTR! This day is the birthday of the late Archie Carr. accstr.ufl.edu/accstr-overv...
- Ariadna Arnau successfully deployed three satellite transmitters on loggerheads at Wassaw Island, Georgia last week. Stay tuned for updates. We are particularly interested in their internesting habitat use and indicators of feeding status.
- ACCSTR members participated in an elementary school STEAM night and had a great time interacting with children and their families yesterday. Turtle power!
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- Happy #EarthDay from the ACCSTR!
- Congratulations to ACCSTR PhD student Costanza Manes on finishing her dissertation and delivering an excellent exit seminar on green turtles and Fibropapillomatosis.
- Congratulations to Manjula Tiwari, ACCSTR alum, for receiving two awards last night: ISTS Champion in Conservation Award and the Presidential Award! #ISTS43
- Congrats to the #ISTS43 student award winners!
- An absolute downpour before the poster session. #ISTS43
- ACCSTR student Renato Saragoça Bruno found that green turtle diet in Nicaragua has not changed much since the last assessment in the 1980s. And curiously, nesting females in Tortuguero, Costa Rica consume terrestrial vegetation during the nesting season.
- Adding the #ISTS43 tag.
- Mariela Pajuelo presented on the trophic strategies of four seas turtle species in Peru using stable isotope analysis. #ISTS43
- The opening ceremony at #ISTS43!
- Continued with a brief video.
- Dr. Karen Bjorndal was recently featured in a piece from the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Communications Support. Let's congratulate Dr. Bjorndal on her retirement, after a more than 50-year career at the University of Florida! news.clas.ufl.edu/karen-bjornd...
- Today is UF Giving Day! That means it is time to stand up and holler in support of the ACCSTR. We thank all of our generous donors so far! givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ar...
- Dr. Karen Bjorndal was presented with her #SERSTM2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by Ray Carthy and Blair Witherington in Gainesville this weekend at a gathering to honor her retirement from the University of Florida last month.
- Dr. Bjorndal spent 51 years at UF and became the first director of the ACCSTR in 1986. Over that period she mentored 3 postdocs, chaired or co-chaired 26 PhD and 14 MS committees, and served on 48 others.
- Get ready for UF's Giving Day February 20, 2025. Support the ACCSTR in advancing research, education, and conservation efforts through your gift! givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ar...
- Congratulations to Dr. Karen Bjorndal on receiving the Southeast Regional Sea Turtle Network Lifetime Achievement Award! Karen recently retired, and Hannah Vander Zanden accepted the award on Karen’s behalf at the #SERSTM2025 closing social.
- Congratulations to ACCSTR graduate students Ashley Meade Kusel and Renato Saragoça Bruno for their research grants from the UF Department of Biology!
- Ashley received the Carrie Lynn Yoder Memorial Scholarship, Cynthia A. Melnick Memorial Fund, and Frank Marturo Excellence Fund Awards for a total of $5,500.
- Renato received the Cynthia A. Melnick Memorial Fund and Frank Marturo Excellence Fund Awards for a total of $4,500.
- ACCSTR student Costanza Manes’ work demonstrated evidence of both virus and environmental factors contributing to fibropapillomatosis in sea turtles. #SERSTM25
- A great start to day 2 of #SERSTM25 with a panel of voices from the beach.
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- ACCSTR student Ashley Kusel has documented for the first time a fish that eats only sea turtle feces!
- Reposted by Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle ResearchStable isotope analysis allowed analysis of fasting in #seaturtles. Hannah Vander Zanden of UF used these techniques to assess capital breeding status. #serstm2025
