VANUATU SEA TURTLE RESEARCH PROJECT (2023)
11/29/2022 Our home base on Moso Island... Tranquility Resort. After a two years absence, the HPA Sea Turtle Research Program will renew its satellite tagging project on Moso Island, Republic of Vanuatu. We have 4 students who will join Laura Jim and Marc Rice to travel to Vanuatu to deploy 3 Sea Trk iridium satellite tags on post-nesting hawksbill turtles. We will be on Moso Island from January 5, 2023 to January 14, 2023. Slide show giving introduction to our co-investigators and Moso Island. Project Purpose There are several nesting beaches in Vanuatu and the population of nesting turtles has been declining for many years. The purpose of this project is to identify the internesting habitats, the post-nesting migratory paths and the foraging habitats of hawksbill turtles through satellite tagging of the post-nesting hawksbill ( Eretmochelys imbricata ) to track their migration to their forage grounds. This knowledge will address population declines that result from human intera