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Illuminating The First Swim: A UV-Tagging And Drone-Based Framework To Quantify Initial Sea Turtle Hatchling Dispersal
Jenna Contuchio | UC Santa Cruz, USA
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the problem we are solving

​Survival during the first minutes of nearshore transition remains one of the least quantified stages of sea turtle life history

​our approach

  • Low-cost fluorescent tagging system
  • Drone-based nighttime detection
  • Individual-level behavior extraction
  • Individual burst dynamics & survival modeling
  • Open-source toolkit for regional replication

how it scales

| Designed for adaptation across nesting regions
| Built to reduce cost barriers and expand monitoring capacity

The Adventure Begins

Novel, non-invasive UV-fluorescent hatchling tagging, behavior, and scalable monitoring tools for nearshore transition research
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321TRTL works with community organizations and researchers to develop scalable, open tools for documenting and interpreting sea turtle presence.
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