Juvenile Kemp’s ridley turtle equipped with a miniature solar-powered satellite transmitter to track its movements. (Florida FWC) By Pamela T. Plotkin, Texas Sea Grant, Texas A&M University, for The Conversation On beaches from North Carolina to Texas and throughout the wider Caribbean, one of nature’s great seasonal events is underway.
Marine biology professor Christopher Marshall and Texas A&M-Galveston faculty and staff teamed up with the NOAA to rescue sea turtles stunned by unseasonably cold weather. By Bob Wright, Texas A&M University at Galveston Marketing and Communications The recent arctic cold front that dropped temperatures so quickly along the Texas Coast…