*Cowabunga* Can you believe how many green turtle nests have been laid so far this season?! 🤯 As of 14 July, nests counts on the Brevard County portion of the ACNWR: Leatherback - 34 Loggerhead - 12,139 Green - 11,308 (!!!) Kemp’s ridley - 1 📸: A.Crowder, #UCFTurtleLab

BTW, the Brevard Co portion of the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge that we monitor is only 14 miles/20 km long. 👇👇🤯🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢😳

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The UCF Marine Turtle Research Group (Dr. Kate Mansfield) was highlighted for the 50th anniversary of the #EndangeredSpeciesAct with a visit from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service & NOAA leadership. Read about their trip to the 🐢 refuge & view more pictures at this link 🖱️ ucf.edu/news/ucf-sea-t…

Green turtle nests surpassed loggerheads this week! 😲 This time last year we only had 4,638 green turtle nests. As of 21 July, nest counts recorded on the Brevard Co. #ArchieCarrNWR: Leatherback - 34 Loggerhead - 13,121 Green - 13,683 Kemp’s ridley - 1 📸/✍️ M.Moonstone

On this day - July 28, 1978, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service & NOAA listed the loggerhead sea turtle as threatened on the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Watch baby loggerhead sea turtles 🐢 make their way into the ocean 🌊 & learn how Dr. Kate Mansfield aid conservation efforts. UCF 📽️ youtu.be/KWuGUbf11BI

And counting.

Way to go Callie Veelenturf! washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

New paper 🚨: By lab alum Dr. Dr. Chris Long! Part of his PhD looking at the impacts of harmful algal blooms on sea turtles in Florida. int-res.com/abstracts/meps…