{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Safe Travels","title":"Green Sea Turtles: One of Conservation's Greatest Success Stories | Inside NOAA's Sea Turtle Research","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3081,"description":"What does it take to recover a species that was once on the brink of collapse?\nIn this episode of Safe Travels, we travel to San Diego Bay with researchers from NOAA Fisheries' Southwest Fisheries Science Center for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's most inspiring wildlife recovery stories, the remarkable comeback of the green sea turtle.\nJoin research biologist Dr. Cali Turner Tomaszewicz, biologist Garrett Lemons, lab technician Anna Cahill, and citizen scientist Tracy Tempest as they capture, examine, tag, and release one of San Diego Bay's resident green sea turtles. Along the way, we explore how decades of science, international conservation, and community involvement have helped reverse one of the greatest wildlife declines of the last century.\nYou'll discover how researchers monitor turtle populations, use genetics and satellite tracking to understand migration, estimate age through bone science, and investigate the mysterious \"lost years\" of juvenile sea turtles. The episode also examines the new conservation challenges facing recovering populations, including climate change, warming oceans, vessel strikes, marine debris, and shifting sex ratios caused by rising nesting temperatures.\nMost importantly, this episode demonstrates that long-term, science-based conservation works, and that every person has a role to play in protecting our oceans.\nIn This Episode\nField research with NOAA Fisheries in San Diego Bay\nCapturing and safely handling wild green sea turtles\nTagging, blood sampling, genetics, and satellite tracking\nHow scientists estimate turtle age using skeletal growth rings\nThe mystery of the sea turtle \"Lost Years\"\nWhy most Southern California green turtles originate from Mexico\nHow citizen scientists contribute to sea turtle conservation\nThe impact of climate change on sea turtle populations\nBoat strikes, marine debris, and other modern threats\nWhy the recovery of the green sea turtle is one of conservation's greatest...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/XvTeG_yyl6M691T9OEMeL8Y01h4_Ks1GMk9luf85RuQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MWIy/ZjZlZTQ3OTlkN2E1/NTFhMmMyMGM5Mjkz/ZGU3Ni5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}