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Marine Turtle Research
An important part of the Center's research mission is to provide the scientific foundation for conservation and management actions to recover depleted populations of sea turtles. More...
News and Highlights
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November 26, 2012
In April, Shawn Murakawa, a biologist in the Marine Turtle Research Program (MTRP) successfully defended her University of Hawaii Master's thesis in Animal Sciences. Her thesis was entitled "Determination of growth spurts in Hawaiian green sea turtles using skeletochronology and histological analysis of gonads". More...
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August 17, 2012
PIFSC scientists have been actively pursuing sea turtle research projects on the home front and in the wider area of the North Pacific. More...
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July 23, 2012
Today, President Obama named PIFSC Scientist Kyle Van Houtan as a recipient of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award is the highest honor given by the federal government to outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers. More...
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October 1, 2011
In July 2011, PIFSC scientist George Balazs, leader of the Center's Marine Turtle Research Program (MTRP), worked with colleagues from Japan and Hong Kong to deploy satellite-transmitter tracking tags on immature loggerhead turtles captive-bred and reared for research at the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium (PNPA). More...
Recent Staff Publications
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October 10, 2012Resource requirements of the Pacific leatherback turtle populationJones TT, Bostrom BL, Hastings MD, Van Houtan KS, Pauly D, Jones DR
[2012] PLoS ONE 7(10): e45447. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045447 -
October 1, 2012Age and growth rates of Hawaiian hawskbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) using skeletochronologySnover ML, Balazs GH, Murakawa SKK, Hargrove SK, Rice MR, Seitz WA
[2013] Marine Biology 160: 37-46. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-2058-7 -
September 6, 2012Report of The Sea Turtle Longline Fishery Post-release Mortality Workshop, November 15-16, 2011Swimmer Y, Gilman E, Organizers
[2012] U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-34, 32 p -
May 15, 2012Hawksbill sea turtles in the Northwestern Hawaiian IslandsVan Houtan KS, Kittinger JN, Lawrence AL, Yoshinaga C, Born VR, Fox A
[2012] Chelonian Conservation and Biology 11(1): 117-121. DOI: 10.2744/CCB-0984.1 -
May 9, 2012New primers reveal the presence of a duplicate histone H3 in the marine turtle leech Ozobranchus branchiatusLavretsky P, Truong TM, McGowin AE, Balazs GH, Peters JL
[2012] Conservation Genetics Resources 4(2): 487-490. DOI: 10.1007/s12686-011-9581-6 -
January 21, 2012Spillover effects of environmental regulation for sea turtle protection: the case of the Hawaii shallow-set longline fisheryChan HL, Pan M
[2012] U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-30, 38 p. + Appendices