Nesting Beach Monitoring Network
2012 Research Update
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| Lagoon in Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge | Cuero y Salado beach |
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| Playing games with resident children | |
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| Residents take a break in the education center | |
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| Path to the beach | |
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| Dining area | Train to the refuge |
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| Sunset over the lagoon | Beach profiling |
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| Beach profiling | Beach profiling |
Utila |
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| Lindsey giving a presentation to Utila residents | BICA meeting |
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| Lindsey's presentation | Beach camp at the remote study site |
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| Chel equipped with a satellite transmitter | Flipper tagging Chel |
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| Chel nesting before tag attachment | Robyn with Chel prior to release |
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| Ginger equipped with satellite transmitter | Lindsey weighing eggs |
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| Lindsey attaching a transmitter | Hatchlings |
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| Hatchling | |
| El Venado | |
| August 2012 | |
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| Maura (L) and Tenita (C) explain some cooking tips to some of the other Turtle Center ladies. | Adrienne Workman assesses a community patient. |
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| Some of the young ladies from El Venado being registered by Steve Dunbar for the Health Clinic. | Discussing some of the community needs with residents is one of the things Geraldine Delgado enjoyed most about the SIMS trip to El Venado. |
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| The engineer from Marcovia helping to design the water tower and new showers for the Center. | At the water tower construction site. |
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| The engineer doing some more planning. | Lidia Salinas (L), Quinto (C) and Henrique (R) burry a nest of eggs that was purchased before the "Veda" began. |
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| Two professors (center and right) who came to learn more about the ProTECTOR research, and are interested in assisting ProTECTOR with turtle genetic studies. | |
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| On this trip, Loma Linda University Nutrition student, Maya Friedman, learns some minor dental assisting techniques as she helps Dr. Parker with his patients. | Dr. Richard Parker consulting with one of his little dental patients. |
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| Other volunteers who helped at the Turtle Center. | Dr. Richard Parker with another dental patient. |
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| Henrique Vijil removing epoxy from a satellite tag. | After he found a satellite tag, Christian (R), a fisherman, gave it to Reina (C), his grandmother. The satellite tag is being returned to Steve Dunbar (L). |
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| SIMS Volunteers 2012 in front of El Venado Turtle Center. | Loma Linda University Nursing student Rafael Cruzado consulting a young patient. |
| September 2012 | |
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| Applying a transmitter to Loanis | Applying a transmitter to Loanis |
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| Loanis before release | Nesting Olive Ridley |
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| Group with a hawskbill nest | Sabine makes her way back to the sea |
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| Hawksbill hatchling | Lidia with a hatchling |
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| Hawksbill hatchling | Hatchlings equipped with glowsticks for night tracking |
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| Dr. Dunbar with the education group | Reading the ProTECTOR poster |
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| Dr. Dunbar teaching students about turtle conservation | Children pose with a sea turtle pinata |
| Punta Raton | |
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| Playing games on the beach | Noemi takes a blood sample from nesting turtle |
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| Noemi helps the children play with a pinata | Local children help with a beach clean-up |
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| Noemi playing with local childern | Olive ridley hatchling |
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| Noemi helps the children play with a pinata | Playing games with local children |
| Data Collectors |
| Bottles 2 Buildings |
| ResearchGate |
| ProTECTOR Inc. Youtube |
| Interns and Volunteers |
| ProTECTOR Store |