Sea
Turtle, Inc.
(posted May 2, 2008)
Sea Turtle, Inc. offers internships to college students studying biology or an environmental field. We offer wages and housing. Students participate in all three missions of the organization. They will learn medical treatment, triaging, calculating dosages, and tagging under our rehabilitation mission. They will be required to give short educational tours to the public. They will be conducting beach patrols to look for nesting turtles and their tracks for the protection of nests under our conservation program. Interns will travel to Mexico to the largest nesting beach for the Kemp's ridley sea turtle to train. Interested students must submit a letter of interest and resume by March 1st for summer consideration. They must be US citizens and 18 years old or older. They must have a current driver's license. Sea Turtle, Inc. hires six or seven interns each summer and encourages students to apply earlier than March 1st. Please direct inquiries and applications to: Jeff George, Curator
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Nesting season for 2008 begins
(posted April 15, 2008)
Beach patrols on South Padre Island and Boca Chica beaches have begun. Sea Turtle, Inc. is again administrating these patrols for the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Hatchling releases are often open to the public but cannot be guaranteed. We do our best to predict the hatch date but Mother Nature always is in charge. Please call our answering machine in the evenings after 9pm for the latest information on hatchling releases ((956) 761-4511). They occur at sunrise (6:45am) and this summer will be at Cameron County access #4 (just a mile or two north of Sea Turtle, Inc.)
Nest #----Nest Date-----#Eggs----Est. Hatch Date-----Sponsor
SPI01-----4/12/08-------104------June 3-6--------Valley Creek Elem.
SPI02-----4/24/08--------93------June 14-18--------Nancy Marsden
BC03------4/24/08--------91------June 14-18--------Robert Clark Jr.
SPI04-----4/24/08-------107------June 14-18--------Paula Stockman
SPI05-----4/24/08--------80------June 14-18--------Anne & Tim Perez
BC06------4/26/08--------90------June 15-19--------David Glicher
BC07------4/26/08--------97------June 15-19--------Travis Elem.
SPI08-----4/26/08--------94------June 15-19--------Travis Elem.
SPI09-----4/26/08--------101-----June 15-19--------Ship Shape
SPI10-----4/30/08--------100-----June 18-22------Rob & Leena Carranza
SPI11-----4/30/08--------100-----June 18-22----Troy Giles/Karen Moore
SPI12-----5/1/08---------79------June 19-23--------Yummies Bistro
SPI13-----5/1/08---------85------June 19-23--------Greg Hurt
SPI14-----5/5/08---------101-----June 24-27------Tom & Carol Plumb
SPI15-----5/6/08---------108-----June 25-28------Charlene Clark
SPI16-----5/6/08---------81------June 25-28-----Sandra Bowles Coulter
SPI17-----5/7/08---------101-----June 25-28-----Linda Bord-Thomas
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Web Updates.
(posted October 17, 2006)
Many thanks to Gene and Rachel Gore for updating our web site to include teacher and student pages, photo pages, and updates to our other pages. Check out their "surf cam" at www.spadre.com If you're visiting the Island and want to take surfing lessons, they're the ones to call.
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Now Appearing:
(posted February 8, 2003)
Now Appearing:
Scooter: A 70 lb. Kemp’s ridley with 2 missing flippers.
Spunky: A 108 lb. Green with spinal chord damage. For release 4/18/08
Gerry: A 150 lb. Green that is domesticated.
Merry Xmas: A 150 lb. Green with birth defects.
Fred: A 209 lb. Loggerhead
Josh: A loggerhead scheduled for release in 2008
Isla: A non-releasable hawksbill with a tear in the lung.
Allison: A non-releasable green washed in June 17th with fresh bite marks and missing most of 3 flippers. Has learned to surface and a candidate for a prostetic flipper.
Concha: A hawksbill with damage to one eye. Scheduled for release in 2008
Patti Cake: A hawksbill missing portions of three flippers. (non-releasable.
MJ: A juvenile loggerhead attacked by predators. She had been on display at Gladys Porter Zoo but outgrew her aquarium. Now looking for a new home.
BUDDY: A hatchling hawksbill sea turtle attacked by predators. missing pieces of all 4 flippers.
Alyssa: a juvenile Kemp's ridley missing one flipper. She's a release candidate for summer 08
Kileen: a baby Hawksbill stranded in seaweed during spring break. Has coccydia but should make a full recovery and be released summer 08.
Whittle: a baby hawksbill
Amanda: a green with degenerative bone disease. Originally stranded also with kidney failure
Manny: a green that stranded floating near Port Mansfield. Scheduled for release on 4/18/08
Truman: a 50# loggerhead that washed in exhausted. Should be releasable
Mariken: a 170# loggerhead making a full recovery from infection. Should be released in spring 08.
Marley: a Kemp's ridley found in the jetties almost dead with a severe infection. Recovering very slowly.
Sonrisa: a Kemp's ridley with kidney failure and infection. Recovered and scheduled for spring 08 release.
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Turtle, Inc.
(956) 761-4511 Ridley97@aol.com |
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6617
Padre Boulevard |
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South Padre Island, TX 78597 |
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