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The 2025 Agenda is shown below. Please check back for updates.

All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)

FWC and Federal Partners

Time Presentations
9:00 Welcome. Maria Merrill, FWC
9:05 Update on Florida's Sea Turtle Stranding Trends. Corey Lloyd, FWC
9:25 Update on the 2024 Marine Turtle Nesting Season in Florida. Simona Ceriani, FWC
9:55 Marine Turtle Management Update. Robbin Trindell, FWC
10:10 Marine Debris Program. Jennifer McGee, FWC
10:30 Break
10:55 FWC Sea Turtle Lighting Team. Lindsey Flynn, FWC
11:10 Species Conservation Measures and Permitting Guidelines for Imperiled Beach-Nesting Birds. Blair Hayman, FWC
11:25 Federal Sea turtle Updates. Karen Frutchey, USFWS and Stacy Hargrove, NOAA
11:45 Questions from Morning Session
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Wildlife Alert Update. Patrick Walsh, Wildlife Alert
1:45 Reduced Bar Spacing in Turtle Excluder Devices (DWH Restoration Project). Christy Fellas, NOAA
2:00 Brevard Zoo Species Conservation Programs. Trevor Zachariah, Brevard Zoo
2:15 Helping Sea Turtle Survive for 38 Years. Roger Pszonowsky, Sea Turtle Preservation Society
2:30 Return of the King: 8 Years of Indigo Snake Reintroductions in the Florida Panhandle. Bradley OHanlon, FWC
2:45 USACE Sea Turtle Monitoring and Marine Turtle Permit Holder Process. Kristen Donofrio and Julia Lombardo, USACE
3:00 Questions from Afternoon Session
3:10 Break

Marine Turtle Grant Presentations

Time Presentations
3:30 Sea Turtle Tag and Sea Turtle Policy Update. David Godfrey and Stacey Gallagher, Sea Turtle Conservancy
3:50 Displays at the Barrier Island Center Telling the Interconnecting Stories of Doc Ehrhart, His Students, Sea Turtles and the Carr Refuge. Nichole Perna, Barrier Island Center
4:05 Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Ultrasound System. Bette Zirkelbach, The Turtle Hospital
4:20 Flip the Switch Campaign. Samantha Tiffany and Rolando Martinez, City of Miami Beach
4:35 Late-Season Sea Turtle Nesting in Central and South Brevard County, Florida. Merope Moonstone, Kate Mansfield, and Erin Seney, UCF
4:50 Questions
5:00 Adjourn

FWC = Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

USFWS = U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

NOAA = National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

USACE = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

UCF = University of Central Florida