by Audrey Benedict | Apr 12, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #123: On Thin Ice! ON THIN ICE! When I need to recover my bearings as a science writer, I often circle back to my fascination with polar regions. Sea ice has been very much on my mind lately, and especially the prospect of an ice-free Arctic in the not so...
by Audrey Benedict | Mar 2, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #122: Fisheries Bycatch Photo Credit: Courtesy of NOAA. A juvenile loggerhead sea turtle escapes a trawler net that has been quipped with a Turtle Excluder Device (TED). These sea turtle “escape hatches” were originally developed to benefit both the...
by Audrey Benedict | Feb 17, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #121: Cold Stunning Photo Credit: Courtesy of Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald (MIGUEL ROBERTS AP) Thousands of Atlantic green sea turtles and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles suffering from cold stun are laid out to recover Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 at the...
by Audrey Benedict | Feb 17, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #120: A Flipper of Hope Photo Credit: Courtesy of Tim Briggs, Northeastern University (Marine Biology), and the online journal Massive Science. (Green sea turtle, San Diego Bay) If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so muchIn the survival of...
by Audrey Benedict | Feb 5, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #119: Sea Turtle Magnetism (Part 5) #1. Photo Credit: Satellite-tagged loggerhead photo courtesy of Argos System (argos-system.org). Loggerhead sea turtles begin their lives by migrating alone across the Atlantic Ocean and back. Eventually, after more than...
