Programme

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Programme information will be available soon.

Symposium Themes:

  1. Animal Health & Welfare
    ·       Anatomy & Physiology
    ·       “Omics” & Pathology
    ·       Rescue & Rehabilitation
    ·       Veterinary science & Clinical Care

  2. In-water Ecology & Behavior

    ·       Foraging, diet & body condition
    ·       Migration & homing behaviors
    ·       Courtship
    ·       Ecological roles
    ·       Animal interactions & epibionts

  3. Nesting Ecology
    ·       Incubation environment
    ·       Developmental biology & ecology
    ·       Behavior & habitat selection
    ·       Reproductive Success
    ·       Sea finding behavior & dispersal

  4. Population Monitoring & Dynamics
    ·       Long-term monitoring & trends
    ·       Species or population status
    ·       Demography & sex ratios
    ·       Survival probability & population growth rates
    ·       Stocks and management unit definitions, status and designations
    ·       Mixed stock analyses
    ·       Population models

  5. Genetics, genomics & evolutionary trajectories
    ·       Population identification
    ·       Breeding sex ratios
    ·       Genetic diversity
    ·       Genetic connectivity & phylogeography
    ·       Detecting inbreeding & population health
    ·       Adaptation to environmental change

  6. Sea turtle habitat functioning, impacts & management
    ·       Nesting beaches, rehabilitation & beach nourishment
    ·       Seagrass protection & rehabilitation
    ·       Mangroves as developmental areas
    ·       Open-water habitats
    ·       Mesophotic foraging habitats
    ·       Novel habitats & artificial beaches
    ·       Climate change and threats to habitats
    ·       Habitat response models

  7. Threats, Fisheries, and Disturbance
    ·       Fisheries related topics - bycatch, fishing gear & fishing effort,
    management (TEDs)
    ·       Direct take
    ·       Live and dead strandings, causes and networks
    ·       Plastic and other forms of pollution causing mortality
    ·       Non-native predators & alien invasives

  8. Conservation & Management Frameworks, Policy & Conventions
    ·       Legal and legislative support frameworks
    ·       Domestic and International Policy
    ·       Enforcement
    ·       Protected areas, protected area networks
    ·       Areas beyond national jurisdiction

  9. Human Dimensions I: Science and Conservation Communication
    ·       Education
    ·       Outreach
    ·       Advocacy
    ·       Use of Social media

  10. Human Dimensions II. Social, Economic, and Cultural Studies
    ·       Economic assessments, valuations & applications
    ·       Cultural perceptions & values
    ·       Social and/or anthropological studies
    ·       Storytelling, fantasy, folklore & mythology
    ·       Conflict and conflict resolution

  11. Innovation & Technology
    ·       Tracking technologies & development
    ·       Data collection & data sharing platforms
    ·       BRUVs, RUVs, and ROVs
    ·       Aerial & Underwater Drones
    ·       Critter Cam, Body Cameras & Hydrophones
    ·       Dark skies, Sky Cam, and light monitoring technologies
    ·       Artificial Intelligence

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