Ware Marine Research and Conservation

Category: Project update

  • a sea turtle nest being washed over by the incoming tide

    Project Update: Wave Exposure of Sea Turtle Nests

    Identifying inundation and erosion hot-spots in the Florida Panhandle Inundation and nest erosion from wave exposure, storm surge, and sea level rise are major threats to sea turtle nests – causing localized mortality of eggs, as well as potential changes in hatchling size, morphology, locomotor function, and sex. Nesting females use several environmental cues such…