STRETCH NAGOYA

 Below is an animation of the weekly location of each of the 23 juvenile loggerhead turtles along with sea surface temperatures authored by  STRETCH Co-PI   Dana Briscoe .

 12/14/2023 Below is a picture of George Balazs with STAJ President Yoshi Matsuzawa (left) and Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium Director Masanori Kurita (right)  at the social hour during the symposium. Above is a bequtiful picture of Nagoyako and the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, site of the 34th Annual Sea Turtle Association of Japan symposium this year.

 

 11/15/2023 STRETCH Team member Alberto Abreu ( Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) gave a thorough overview of the STRETCH Project to an enthusiastic audience of members of Groupo Tortugero on November 15, 2023.   Dr. Alberto Abreu presenting to an enthusiastic audience at the 25 th  Annual  Meeting of the Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, held at the Gran Acuario Mazatlán “Mar de Cortés” .   Below is a movie of the slide presentation presented by Alberto Abreu to the attendees of the 25th Annual symposium sponsored by the   Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias .   If you have any questions, please post them to  loggerheadstretch@gmail.com .   Each slide in the presentation is scheduled for 20 seconds but you can hit pause (||) if you would like more time to view the slide.  Once done, hit play to continue to the next slide. Again:   If you have any questions, please post them to  loggerheadstretch@gmail.co

 SATURDAY / SUNDAY 11/19 AND 11/20/2022 Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium's Chelonia Institute. Saturday afternoon, after we checked in on the little tagged loggerhead and visited the aquarium, we departed for a short visit to Osu shopping street to wander around- take a little break from the "grind". Sunday: After checking out of the hotel, we caught a local train to Nagoya Station and then the Nozomi shinkansen to Shin Osaka where we were supposed to meet up with Takahashi Ishikara.  Unfortunaely, he was unable to make it because of an emergency at his aquarium.  Flight home.. We took the Haruka rapid train to Kansai and checked in without too much hastle.  Flight left on time and was about 1/2 full which gave everyone lots of room.   Arrived in HNL on time and GHB left for home while I remained to catch my flight to Kona 3 hours later. Flight to Kona was on time so the trip went very well from the beginning to the end. All in all, a whorl-wind visit that was very producti

 Saturday, 11/19.2022 Today is our final day in Nagoya.  We are headed to the aquarium to check on our "tagged" loggerhead and will spend some time with Kurita san and team to finalize all talking points. We will also take some time to walk around the aquarium and see the various exhibits before we leave our wonderful Japanese team mates for the time being.   This afternoon will be spent doing a little shopping and visit Osu district shopping street.  Below:  Walking to the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium.... a beautiful day and a beautiful area. Heroic Japanese  antarctic huskies, Jiro and Taro View of the PNPA across the bridge. Walking across the bridge toward the aquarium. View from the aquarium back across the bridge we had just crossed. Aquarium Visit. We meet up with Kurita san at 1030 and he took us over to visit the turtle we tagged yesterday.  Everything looks good... the turtle is active, feeding and the tag remains solidly attached.  Below are some clips of our vis

Friday,  11/18/2022 Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium. Today we will conduct a practice attachment to one of cohort 1 juvenile loggerheads.  We will take some time to experiment with attachment materials to determine what we consider the best for attachment.   After some experimentation, we decided to stick with a UV activated polyester resin and fiberglass cloth. Masanori Mori picks a mid-sized turtle from cohort 1 to place a mock tag on. GHB and Saito san transporting our little loggerhead over to the work area. Mixing the elastomer base for the tag. Elastomer base is in place. Triming the elastomer base. Nearly finished tag attachment. Masanori Mori putting the tagged turtle into a special holding basket. The Spot 6 387 tag on our first turtle from cohort 1.  Note that this is just a mock tag and is not functional.