Mia D’Orazio (above) graduated as a biology major from Florida International University and received the National Save the Sea Turtle Foundation Scholarship. Stationed at Akumal with Ines, she performed turtle grass, green turtle, and tourist snorkel transects to document the spatial and temporal patterns. The GPS data will be used by the local experts to do a threat analysis to better manage snorkeling impacts.
Ines Boussena (below) from Tunisia took an internship before starting graduate school in France in Engineering. She continued the artificial lighting study started by intern Roxy in 2021, and found differences in lighting patterns over over the years, but the same result – turtles nested in darker areas.
