in multiple animal models. For example, they have completely transected the Achilles tendon in rats and then they transected transected so they've cut across the Achilles tendon. So not just a small injury that you or I might experience in the gym where we pull itor strain it, but actually surgically cut the Achilles tendon. And then they administer it to rats and they are
Because, actually, we were interested too in the data that he was able to collect about ocean temperature. So that particular transect is strung across the page here. The black line is the depths that he's diving to.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. So moving from one transect to the next.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. You will do some transects and work on corals as well as a sort of side benefit of this.
There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols. Then youíll be swimming transects for several hours, moving around a few times, we do catch the turtles.
But we're aligned to the same desired end result, and that's beautiful. What you're seeing here is a transect I'm doing with some folks in September.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. I was swimming in the transect , and then the WCS person on the boat kept telling me, swim faster, you got to keep up with the crowd.
Black. Pink. Orange. Red. So he has a complete transection of his spinal cord, very high.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. The basic idea of the turtle surveys is we transect the entire atoll with a number of different line transects .
There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols. So one half of the day will be participating in the transect , the line monitoring for sea turtles, the other half of the day will be to recover or recoup, actually maybe enjoy
So this morning what they would have done is gotten together with their Google tablets. They key in their GPS units and their transects . When they go out, they start to see information, the kind of things that we have them looking for.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. Obviously, currents also mess with your transects .
gastric lining. And so the idea is like, well, if this is one of the compounds that can help do that, it's been proven in multiple animal models. For example, they have completely transected the Achilles tendon in rats and then they transected transected so they've cut across the Achilles tendon. So not just a small injury that you or I might experience in the gym where we pull it
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. But we're looking at about 50 kilometers long lengthwise, and then all the transects that were swum by the team last year.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. Yeah, making sure you're not running over people's transects or moving.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. And then when you're not on the turtle survey, there's other transects that we're doing for coral health and other pieces.
There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols. And so the end of April we will be going out and require and need people to help us run some transects and help monitor the entirety of the atoll for its resident sea turtle population.
There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols. turtles. So for the last four years weíve been running transects on an annual basis to identify and start monitoring that population.
But this is a very barren place. One of my cohorts, one of the folks working on this on the field science side, Mary Beth Wilhelm, is about to publish a paper talking about a transect going from further south to the north, from warmer and for cooler and wetter to hotter and drier.
conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize. I assume it's protected since it's a reef, but-- DR. CALEB MCCLENNEN: Well, you are on the outside and most of the transects on the outer shelf-- and it is pretty much
There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols. swimming, so snorkeling, not scuba diving, that would bring in a whole other set of complications, snorkeling and we do linear transects swimming for identifying any of the sea turtle groups,