Edward McGinley, Avery Cogley, Leslie Palmer, Patricia McCaul, Lilli Longo, Jasmine Silvennoinen, Angela Martin, Josalyn Gomez, Sydney Bachmaier, Michaela Mackey, Chris Kao, Scott Eastman, Catherine Eastman
As conservation efforts regarding green sea turtles, Chelonia mydas, continue, it is imperative to document behaviors and foraging habits/habitats of understudied populations. We have conducted an 18-month study dedicated to photographing the local population feeding alongside floating docks within the Guana Tolomato Matanzas estuary to determine the capability of matching head scale patterns efficiently through a pattern matching program: HotSpotter. To date, 195 unique sea turtles have been identified between two different marinas located in St...
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