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2013 Spring Training Schedule Announced!

2013 Spring Training Schedule Announced!

NEST is excited to announce its schedule for spring 2013 volunteer trainings sessions. Below each training description is a list of different times and dates each training will be offered. Volunteers need only attend one of the different sessions for each teams they...

20-Sep-2012 Nests #19, 20, and 22 emerge

NESTers have been busy this week, preparing nest sites for emergences and watching the tides come wickedly close to their tiny wards.  Some fortressing helped re-direct some of the water but it was all in good measure as teams began to help escort the tiny guys along...

13-Sept-2012 Nest Statistics Update

All interns have left and turtles keep rolling out so sadly, this is the first chance I’ve had to give you an update.  We’re gearing up for another round of emerging nests so before that happens, I wanted to make sure you were up to date on the last round....

August Nest Emergence and Excavation Updates

August has kept us busy – nest sitting, excavations, dodging summer lightening, etc. but it has proven very successful.  So far Nests 1-8 have all been completed and so far nearly 550 hatchlings are on their way to the gulf stream!   About half our nests...

9-Aug-2012 Nest #5 emerges

A note from Jackie and Kaye, proud nest parents for our Kemp’s Ridley nest. 9-Aug-2012  The Kemp’s nest hatched last night on Day 56 at 10:46 PM. We had just checked the nest, Kathy and Al had just left, a group of people came up and we looked and 31...