Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Florida
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

The purpose is to determine and quantify exposure and injuries to the nesting adult loggerhead sea turtles that reside in and nest along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico resulting from exposure to MS Canyon 252 oil (hereafter referred to as oil). This study is being conducted in partnership with a separate yet identical project to quantify exposure and injury to adult Kemp’s ridley turtles that nest primarily along the Texas coast. Combined, these two studies will assess nesting turtle impacts along the entire Gulf coast of the United States.