Following breeding green sea turtles in remote islands of Brazil

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) The National Science Foundation this month announced that Lisa Komoroske of UMass Amherst will co-lead a four-year, $1.4 million, multi-institution grant to study how reproductive behaviors will influence the effects of climate change on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). Her team will spend months in the field at turtle nesting beaches on Fernando de Noronha, a marine reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site composed of archipelago of 21 islands about 220...