Jul 24, 2015
Check out the video from Broward County, Florida, which illustrates the severe disorientation that occurs in loggerhead sea turtles at very high light levels. Watch it to get a sense of what our video footage will look like, too!
Video is from the Sea Turtle Oversight Protection organization.
https://www.facebook.com/SeaTurtleOP/videos/864186380285544/
Our goal is to measure the effect of coastal light pollution on hatchling loggerhead ability to find the ocean. We hypothesize that there will be a threshold intensity above which hatchlings become disoriented and less efficient at "sea finding".
Artificial light is a pollutant which is increasing in U.S. urban environments at a rate of 6% per year. Determining hatchling response to various light levels will be important to the long term conservation strategies for endangered sea turtle species.
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