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Sea turtle research, education, and conservation at the University of Florida.
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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.
A loggerhead turtle with a transmitter on her carapace under red light. A loggerhead is held for antifouling paint drying time before release with a satellite transmitter. An loggerhead crawls back to the ocean at dawn with a satellite transmitter.
June 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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ACCSTR members participated in an elementary school STEAM night and had a great time interacting with children and their families yesterday. Turtle power!
Hannah Vander Zanden, Ariadna Arnau, Aileen Lavelle, and Mariela Pajuelo stand behind two tables with sea turtle skulls, jellyfish/plastic bags in jars, tortoise and turtle shells, make-your-own-turtle art activity, and a voting station to vote for names of turtles that will receive satellite transmitters. Photo courtesy of M Pajuelo.
April 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Congratulations to ACCSTR PhD student Costanza Manes on finishing her dissertation and delivering an excellent exit seminar on green turtles and Fibropapillomatosis.
Costanza Manes delivers her PhD seminar, and the screen beside her shows a slide of acknowledgments.
April 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Congratulations to Manjula Tiwari, ACCSTR alum, for receiving two awards last night: ISTS Champion in Conservation Award and the Presidential Award!

#ISTS43
Nominator Mustapha Aksissou speaks as President Andrews Agyekumhene stands next to Manjula Tiwari. Andrews Agyekumhene presents the Presidential Award to Manjula Tiwari.
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Congrats to the #ISTS43 student award winners!
Six of eight awardees stand on the stage with Andrews Agyekumhene and Andrea Phillip presenting the awards. The other two were not able to attend the awards ceremony.
March 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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An absolute downpour before the poster session. #ISTS43
View of the Mensvic Hotel and pool in the rain. Posters stretch down temporary walls of the poster session.
March 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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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.
Renato Saragoça Bruno stands at the podium with his title slide in the background.
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Mariela Pajuelo presented on the trophic strategies of four seas turtle species in Peru using stable isotope analysis. #ISTS43
Mariela Pajuelo stands at the podium with a slide of different sea turtle species and their trophic strategies.
March 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Continued with a brief video.
March 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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The opening ceremony at #ISTS43!
A long room is filled with occupied chairs watching a woman narrate and sing against the backdrop of a leatherback on the screen. Audience views a woman singing, another dancing, against the backdrop of dancers on screen.
March 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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!

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February 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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.
Ray Carthy, Karen Bjorndal, Blair Witherington
February 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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.
Hannah Vander Zanden holds Karen Bjorndal’s Award Plaque.
February 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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ACCSTR student Costanza Manes’ work demonstrated evidence of both virus and environmental factors contributing to fibropapillomatosis in sea turtles. #SERSTM25
Costanza Manes points to her title slide: Fibropapillomatosis: the virus and the environment.
February 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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A great start to day 2 of #SERSTM25 with a panel of voices from the beach.
A stage with eight sea turtle biologists and one moderator at the start of the panel discussion.
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM