501 Nesting Loggerhead Turtles, Yakushima, Japan
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Yakushima, Japan
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Project July 1999
Researchers:
J. Nichols, Kazuyoshi Omuta
& Naoki Kamezaki
J. Nichols, Dana Nichols & David Barron traveled to Yakushima Island where 1/3 of all Japanese loggerhead sea turtles nest. Complimenting the existing research & story of the 'Loggerhead Transpacific Journey', we documented the nesting loggerhead turtles.
The reason for the Japan trip was a result of research by J. Nichols and his colleagues Antonio Resendiz and Jeff Seminoff. They had proven that the newly hatched loggerhead turtles of Japan make their way across the pacific to Baja where they feed until maturity and then return to Japan in a ~ 10 month journey to nest. The journey back to Japan has been documented using satellite tags attached to loggerhead turtles, which has resulted in real time tracking of the loggerhead transpacific journey. The first of these turtles was 'Rosita and Adelita'.
School age children tracked the loggerheads journey using their computers in the classrooms. The course was plotted from the information sent to the satellites from the satellite tags on the turtles back as it made its journey.
Included is map of the plotted points from Baja to Japan of one of the tracked turtles, as well as photographs from the Baja research site.
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Project July 1999
Researchers:
J. Nichols, Kazuyoshi Omuta
& Naoki Kamezaki
J. Nichols, Dana Nichols & David Barron traveled to Yakushima Island where 1/3 of all Japanese loggerhead sea turtles nest. Complimenting the existing research & story of the 'Loggerhead Transpacific Journey', we documented the nesting loggerhead turtles.
The reason for the Japan trip was a result of research by J. Nichols and his colleagues Antonio Resendiz and Jeff Seminoff. They had proven that the newly hatched loggerhead turtles of Japan make their way across the pacific to Baja where they feed until maturity and then return to Japan in a ~ 10 month journey to nest. The journey back to Japan has been documented using satellite tags attached to loggerhead turtles, which has resulted in real time tracking of the loggerhead transpacific journey. The first of these turtles was 'Rosita and Adelita'.
School age children tracked the loggerheads journey using their computers in the classrooms. The course was plotted from the information sent to the satellites from the satellite tags on the turtles back as it made its journey.
Included is map of the plotted points from Baja to Japan of one of the tracked turtles, as well as photographs from the Baja research site.
