First year Marine Affairs and Policy master student, Katherine Shaw, recently gave a presentation to her “Conservation Biology” class taught by Dr. Neil Hammerschlag titled, “Increasing Sea Turtle Populations Provides Hope of Recovery.”
“I chose this topic because I am very interested in sea turtle conservation. I fell in love with turtles working on my first nesting project in Costa Rica. Since then I’ve also worked on nesting beaches with the National Park Service in the US Virgin Islands, and with C3 in the Comoros, Africa. I am planning on continuing to study turtles. I will be working for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida this summer doing research on sea turtle nests for my thesis,” says Shaw.
She is on track to graduate in spring 2013 and hopes to continue working with turtles, possibly at a non-profit before returning to school in pursuit of her PhD.
-Andrew DeChellis
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