Oh my goodness
partner in 400 she made all the
difference in the world we have to buy
the components for food we have to make
sure that we keep their tanks clean we
have to occasionally replace tanks so
buying the bracelets made it possible
for us to feed the Turtles clean the
Turtles
give them a good place to live all of
that is possible because of Flor ocean
Florida is one of the most important
beaches in the world
we have about 90% of all of the
loggerhead sea turtles in the Atlantic
are hatching here so what happens in
Florida matters it drives all the trends
in the rest of the Atlantic and that's a
big deal seventy-three point six
40.6 one of the key things we're trying
to find out is whether we have enough
males and females hatching to supply the
future generations our sea turtles are
all animals that have environmentally
determined sex so the incubation
conditions in the nest determine whether
this is a boy or a girl now these these
turtles when they incubate the basic
system is cooler temperatures produce
more males hotter temperatures produce
more girls so we had in 2015 2016 and
2017 100 percent female production so
what's contributing to the hotter nests
is basically hotter drier conditions so
one or two summers of that those are
just variations in weather multiple
years of that that's changes in climate
so we're looking at climate change and
we've been because we've been measuring
these conditions since 2002 we've been
monitoring those increasing frequencies
of hot dry conditions that produce these
hundred percent female is not a good
story but we're starting to now better
understand what kinds of things help
mitigate that
I can't emphasize enough how important
Florida is for the loggerhead sea turtle
it's the most important most densely
nested the most large nesting assemblage
in the world and so what happens in
Florida really is all about the future
of this species so the partnership with
for ocean is absolutely essential to
what we've been able to accomplish
