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Loggerhead Marinelife Center's research team works with local and international organizations to form partnerships and share initiatives and best practices that are core to our mission of ocean conservation with a special focus on threatened and endangered sea turtles. These resources document some of our published findings and successful projects.

2023 Publications

• Monitoring population-level foraging distribution of a marine migratory species from land: strengths and weaknesses of the isotopic approach on the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead turtle aggregation - October 2023

• Blood analyte reference intervals and correlations with trace elements of immature and adult Eastern Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in coastal lagoons of Baja California Sur, Mexico - October 2023

• Blood analytes of hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) from Florida waters: reference intervals and size-relevant correlations - June 2023

• Accuracy and precision of sea-finding orientation as a function of dune proximity in hatchlings of two species of sea turtles
- June 2023

• Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories - February 2023

• Forensic determination of shark species as predators and scavengers of sea turtles in Florida and Alabama, USA - January 2023

• Cultivating epizoic diatoms provides insights into the evolution and ecology of both epibionts and hosts - September 2022

• Responses of three nesting sea turtle species to hard-armoring structures - September 2022

• Morphologic and physiologic characteristics of green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings in southeastern Florida, USA - August 2022

• Method comparison of B-hydroxybutyrate using a point-of-care device and dry chemistry analyzer in three sea turtle species - July 2022

• Nonpigmented versus pigmented: health variables and genetics of albino Florida green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings compared with normally pigmented hatchlings from the same clutch - January 2022

• Morphometrics and blood analytes of leatherback sea turtle hatchlings (Dermochelys coriacea) from Florida: reference intervals, temporal trends with clutch deposition date, and body size correlations - January 2022

• Comparison of 2 glucose analytical methodologies in immature Kemp’s ridley sea turtles: dry chemistry of plasma versus point-of-care glucometer analysis of whole blood
 - 2021




• Use of intravenous lipid emulsion therapy as a novel treatment for brevetoxicosis in sea turtles - December 2021

• Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment - November 2021

• Fibropapillomatosis and chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 infection in Kemp’s ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) - October 2021

• Mercury offloading in gametes and potential adverse effects of high mercury concentrations in blood and tissues of Atlantic Goliath Grouper Epinephelus itajara in the southeastern United States - July 2021

• Two heads are not always better than one: Craniofacial and axial bifurcation in cheloniid embryos and hatchlings (Chelonia mydas and Caretta caretta) - May 2021

• Plasma proteomics of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) reveals pathway shifts and potential biomarker candidates associated with health and disease - April 2021

• Comprehensive health assessment and blood analyte reference intervals of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in southeastern FL, USA
 - March 2021




• Insights on Immune Function in Free-Ranging Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) with and without Fibropapillomatosis
 - March 2021

• Blood analytes of immature Kemp’s ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) from Georgia, USA: reference intervals and body size correlations
 - October 2020



• The Iconic Atlantic Goliath Grouper (Epinephelus itajara): A Comprehensive Assessment of Health Indices in the Southeastern United States Population
 - September 2020




• Anthropogenic Contaminants and Histopathological Findings in Stranded Cetaceans in the Southeastern United States, 2012–2018
 - August 2020




• Nontargeted lipidomics in nesting females of three sea turtle species in Florida by ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography–high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–HRMS/MS) reveals distinct species-specific lipid signatures
 - August 2020




• Comprehensive health assessment of green turtles Chelonia mydas nesting in southeastern Florida, USA - 
May 2020




• Heat, health, and hatchlings: associations of in situ nest temperatures with morphological and physiological characteristics of loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings from Florida
 - May 2020




• Morphological variation in leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) hatchlings at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands
 - April 2020




• Pre-/analytical factors affecting whole blood and plasma glucose concentrations in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta Carett
a) - March 2020




• Comparison of Agarose Gel and Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Methods Using Plasma From Green Turtles (Chelonia Mydas)
 - March 2020




• Harmful algal and cyanobacterial toxins in foraging green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Florida’s Big Bend
 - January 2020

• Albinism In Florida Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Hatchlings: Ratio-Based Evidence Of Basic Mendelian Recessiveness - 
2019




• Impacts of a geotextile container dune core on marine turtle nesting in Juno Beach, Florida, United States - 
December 2019




• Plasma chemistry in nesting leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from Florida: Understanding the importance of sample hemolysis effects on blood analytes - 
September 2019




• Plasma Colloid Osmotic Pressure in Chronically Debilitated Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta Caretta)
 - January 2019

• Longitudinal study of breeding sex ratios of two imperiled turtles nesting in southern Florida
 - 2018




• Comparison of Whole Blood and Plasma Glucose Concentrations in Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) Determined Using a Glucometer and a Dry Chemistry Analyzer
 - 2018




• Blood Chemistry and Hematology Values in Healthy and Rehabilitated Rough-Toothed Dolphins (Steno Bredanensis)
 - 2018




• Evidence of accumulation and elimination of inorganic contaminants from the lachrymal salt glands of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)
 - October 2018




• Note on the unique physiologic state of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) during nesting season as evidenced by a suite of health variables - 
March 2018




• Blood analytes of oceanic-juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from Azorean waters: reference intervals, size-relevant correlations, and comparisons to neritic loggerheads from western Atlantic coastal waters - 
February 2018




• Breeding sex ratio and population size of loggerhead turtles from Southwestern Florida
 - January 2018

• Potential effects of brevetoxins and toxic elements on various health variables in Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtles after a red tide bloom event
 - December 2017

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