2024
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FWC and Federal Partners
| Time | Presentations |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome. Ron Mezich, FWC |
| 9:05 |
Update on Florida's Sea Turtle Stranding Trends. Morgan Wideroff, FWC |
| 9:25 |
Update on the 2023 Marine Turtle Nesting Season in Florida. Simona Ceriani, FWC |
| 9:55 | Marine Turtle Management Update. Robbin Trindell, FWC |
| 10:10 |
Pier Pressure: Incidental Captures of Sea Turtles at Gulf of Mexico Fishing Piers. Robby Brannum, FWC |
| 10:25 | Break |
| 10:55 | FWC Sea Turtle Lighting Team. Kristin Halley and Eric Seckinger, FWC |
| 11:10 | An Update on Imperiled Beach Nesting Bird Species Conservation Measures and Permitting Guidelines. Nick Vitale, FWC Staff |
| 11:30 |
Federal Sea turtle Updates. Karen Frutchey USFWS and Brian Stacy, NOAA |
| 11:50 | Questions from Morning Session |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Wildlife Alert Update. Cyndi Stinson, Wildlife Alert |
| 1:35 | Managing Florida’s Habitats And Species Under Changing Conditions. Logan Benedict, FWC |
| 1:50 | Sea Turtle Sex Ratio Research. Jeanette Wyneken, Florida Atlantic University |
| 2:10 |
Loggerhead Breeding Sex Ratios Across Florida. Jake Lasala, Ian Silver-Gorges, Brian Shamblin, Mariana Fuentes |
| 2:30 |
Sea Turtle Academy STEM: Empowering Students to Build Solutions to Sea Turtle Threats. Sarah Rhodes-Ondi, Sea Turtle Conservancy |
| 2:45 | Questions from Afternoon Session |
| 3:00 | Break |
Marine Turtle Grant Presentations
| Time | Presentations |
|---|---|
| 3:30 | Sea Turtle Tag Update. David Godfrey, Sea Turtle Conservancy |
| 3:50 | Behavioral Responses of Green and Loggerhead Sea Turtles to Fishing Gear and Bycatch Reduction Technologies. Janie Reavis, Inwater Research Group |
| 4:05 | Establishing Baseline Demographics and Health of a Globally Important Loggerhead Rookery. Sarah Hirsch and Justin Perrault, Loggerhead Marinelife Center |
| 4:20 |
Critical Surgical Equipment for Intensive Care. Devon Rollinson-Ramia, The Sea Turtle Hospital at Whitney Laboratory |
| 4:35 |
Integrating Multiple Bio-Logging Techniques to Study Sea Turtle Behaviors and Stress Responses. Mariana Fuentes, Ian Silver-Gorges, Sophie Rosengarten, Coral Hooper, Sophie Mills and Joshua Manning, Florida State University |
| 4:50 | Questions |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |