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The name Caretta Research Project comes from the scientific name of the loggerhead sea turtle,  Caretta caretta.

Our Strategy

Caretta research project focuses work in the following strategic areas.

Caretta Research Project uses long-term monitoring, innovative research tools and techniques, and multi-institutional collaborations to generate scientifically grounded results that can be applied to sea turtle conservation both regionally and internationally.

Conservation

Caretta Research Project implements rigorous nest protection procedures to minimize direct threats to eggs and hatchlings on Wassaw Island and increase annual hatchling production.

Caretta Research Project provides unique experiential opportunities for public participants to volunteer in hands-on sea turtle research and protection during turtle nesting and hatching seasons. Throughout the year, CRP also engages and educates a diverse array of public stakeholders in sea turtle conservation to improve public awareness and support for initiatives to eliminate threats to sea turtle survival.

Caretta Research Project works with and supports local, regional and international environmental organizations whose advocacy initiatives align with our mission to reduce and eliminate threats to sea turtle survival.

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing equal opportunities regardless of race, sex, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or religion. If you're interested in volunteering with CRP, please contact us. We'd love to share more about our project with you and see if it would be a good fit for you.

Our Location

Caretta Research Project is based in Savannah, GA and all of our sea turtle research and protection activities occur on Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge, located only 15 miles southeast of Historic Downtown Savannah and just south of Tybee & Little Tybee islands.

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The Caretta Research Project is an organization working with loggerhead sea turtles nesting on Wassaw Island National Wildlife Refuge, just off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. The project takes volunteers weekly throughout the nesting and hatching season and immerses them in the fantastic world of wildlife fieldwork, giving them a great opportunity to work hands on with the animals.  I was fortunate to have had the honor of working with this group for seven years, three as a paying volunteer for a week each season, and four as an assistant island leader, working the entire season.

Here is an entry from one of my work “days.”  * I’ve added explanations where necessary *

7:30 am – we just got in from our dawn run; Lefty  * named so as her left rear flipper was missing; this prevented her from digging her own nests * came up and started nesting at 5:45am. Mike  * assistant director at the time *, and I had Rachel (volunteer) help Lefty dig the nest this time. She was SO excited, that’s Rachel not Lefty, Lefty was oblivious. I love having the volunteers do stuff, it’s such a happy thing. It’s time for bed.

10:30 am –got up, marked and GPSed nests on the South end; Kris  * director of the project * went North and took the few crew members who were awake birding, they saw the oyster catchers!, AND, AND the wood storks are at the dyke!

Body Surfing! Awesome!

Found freshly dead stranded loggerhead 15 paces north of marker 63. Did a necropsy; 56cm, male, probable shrimp net kill. I have it buried and screened at marker 63. The shrimp boats are everywhere right now, dumping their by-catch for it to wash up on the beach. It’s terrible (unless You’re a ghost crab, then You’d be rollin’ in it!), all these poor little fish and things just dead. Not to mention the pung of rotting animals, I know I said, “not to mention”, but I’m a rebel, at least here, on paper. haha.

Bruce  * caretaker * came by, there was a gator in the ditch pipe beside his house that needed moving. Toughest catch so far! It’s not big, but it wedged itself good’n’tight in the pipe, took Mike and me ‘round half and hour to get it out so we could catch * and relocate * it.  5’ 3”. Showed the crew, then took them to let it go in South Pond where it can’t cause any trouble. The toads are EVERYWHERE! With females dragging clumps of squabbling males clinging desperately to them. . . and the constant trill, it’s just so amazing. Found a bat caught and spun up by a golden silk spider (insert full body shivers here). Rolled some logs, caught a couple of ground skinks, giant eyed click beetles,  AND, AND a scarlet snake! Found a king snake predating a yellow belly slider nest.

So . . . shortly after arriving back at the cabin we noticed that we were covered in seed ticks. Covered! I’m surprised that I have any blood left; but, after sitting and picking at ourselves, and each other monkey style I think we’re OK.

8:45 pm – time to get ready to cruse the beach for lovely ladies  * turtles. *

11:25 pm – Holy Carp! First two runs, swamped! Both ends! Back at cabin for quick break. COFFEE!!! SSK 416 dry ran  * a dry run is when a turtle crawls up the beach but chooses not to nest for various reasons * twice, both again, between markers 10 and 13  * markers are spaced 100 meters apart and are used for locating nests, among other things. * I got my favourite neophyte of the season, SSX 474 / SSX 475 again, that’s three for three for her and I this season, will we see each other again? Had 5 nests on my end and 4 on Kris’, we both had to leave people at turtles to carry on patrolling, thank goodness Bev, Joe, Tom and Mary-Ellen (volunteers) know what to do. Great week for the new team members too!

11:45 pm –  Oops, time to head back out.

6:35 am – Just in from a busy night, SSK 416 dry ran three more times before nesting 23 paces north of marker 11. My crew got 8 nests, we had to relocate one with 98 eggs, it was laid below the high tide line; Bev digs a mighty fine nest. Kris’ crew got 9 nests, 0 dry runs. 17 nests in ONE night! Kris got The Holy Roller * named due to a hole in the right rear margin of her carapace *

Now for a quick cup of coffee then I’m taking Mary-Ellen, Bev, and Joe to the Fish and Wildlife hut to do bird banding with Peter * the Fish and Wildlife Ranger in charge of the refuge. *

12:20 pm – Back from banding. How about those horny (if You have found this diary and, for some reason, decide to read it to a small child, please feel free to substitute “amorous” for “horny”) dolphins off the Fish and Wildlife dock?!! I wish that I had taken my camera this morning, they were incredible! There were five of them leaping and cavorting about, with their bright pink bellies and their pointy red rockets waving about like flagpoles. They were at it for a long time before moving out of sight.

We banded 3 male and four female painted buntings!, a pair of blue birds, blue jays, cardinals, Carolina chickadees, white-eyed vireos, a black and white warbler, Carolina wrens (my faves., they’re so feisty!), AND, AND I got a humming bird on my last run! It was so tiny and delicate, what a beautiful wee thing. I brought it to Peter not knowing that he doesn’t band hummers, I wish I’d known, would have saved the poor little thing a walk. Oh yeah, I almost forgot (like I really could), we found a small Eastern diamond back on the trail!! Paul is coming next week to specifically band painted buntings and would like my help. Are You kidding me?! I’m in!

Um . . . why are there 6 squirrel tree frogs in my coffee mug?

Time for bed.

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The Caretta Research Project is a non-profit organization that has been protecting the loggerhead sea turtles that nest on Wassaw Island, Georgia since 1973. The goals of the Project are to learn more about the biology and nesting trends of loggerheads, to protect eggs and hatchlings ona beach that has historically lost most nests to high tides and predators, and to involve and educate the public in sea turtle conservation efforts. The Project has amassed 37 years of data which has proved invaluable to helping coastal managers establish necessary conservation practices, and as a result, is regularly sought out by research institutions to collaborate on research projects.

Also, the bulk of the labor required to patrol at night for nesting turtles, to protect their nests from predators, and collect data for research is performed by paying volunteers. We have trained people from all over the United States, from ages 13-78, to help us collect data from the turtles and protect the nests and hatchlings.

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The Caretta Research Project celebrates 50 years of loggerhead conservation on Wassaw Island

Editor's note: This story is the first installment in a series about loggerhead conservation on Wassaw Island. 

Under the haze of red-light headlamps, volunteers on Wassaw Island worked quickly and nimbly to protect the island’s latest guests – hundreds of loggerhead sea turtle eggs. 

It was off to the races Wednesday night once the sun set over Georgia’s barrier islands. Volunteers on utility ATVs headed for the beach and hardly had turned off the trail and onto the sand before encountering their first loggerhead of the night. The other groups continue on to patrol up and down 7 miles of Wassaw’s coastline, stopping and starting and circling back to intercept the turtles before they disappear back into the ocean. 

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Conservation worked

It hasn’t always been so busy for the Caretta Research Project’s team. According to CRP Research Director Joe Pfaller, when the project first began in the 1970s, most evenings volunteers would wait around all night for turtles to swim ashore. It was painstaking and often dull work, walking up and down the barren coastline hoping to see anything.

Nowadays, they’re much busier because those early conservation efforts worked. 

“We are grateful that these early pioneers had the foresight to start these conservation practices back then, as they are the reason that we are seeing this increase in turtles today,” said Caretta Research Project Director Kris Williams, who also extended her thanks to the Wassaw Island Trust and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  

The Caretta Research Project is a nonprofit research, conservation and education program studying and protecting Loggerhead sea turtles at the Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge. The project celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer.

Early beginnings

Started in the 1970s by Jerry Williamson of the Savannah Science Museum, Charlie Milmine from the Wassaw Island Trust as well as the museum, and staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the project gets its name from loggerheads’ scientific name:  Caretta caretta . 

It takes about 30 years or more for loggerheads to reach sexual maturity, said Williams, and it’s only been in the last 12 to 15 years that the Caretta Research Project has started to see a significant increase in nesting activity and more individual turtles. 

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, projects like CRP started cropping up on places like Jekyll Island and Little Cumberland Island, Pfaller said. Those efforts got underway when many noticed that turtle nests stopped producing as many hatchlings. More dramatically at about the same time, seemingly healthy mature loggerheads started washing up ashore dead due to drowning in shrimp trawlers.

Thanks to conservation efforts, those instances have grown increasingly rare.  

Playing a long game

When the Savannah Science Museum closed in 1997, Pfaller said money and resources were tight for a couple of years while CRP continued its work. But the organization kept its faith. By the late 1990s, he said researchers knew that if they wanted to see a real turnaround they needed 30 or 40 years of consistent nest protections by conservation groups and volunteers each summer.

Late Wednesday into early Thursday, Pfaller drives along the beach, keeping his eyes peeled for turtle tracks. Crossing the beach headed toward the dunes, turtles leave distinctive flipper-carved trails. After years of practice, he can see where a turtle has stopped and started digging, or “body pitting,” to create a spot to lay eggs by using their flexible flippers to dig holes often well more than a foot deep. 

Volunteers are key

Approaching a loggerhead, one volunteer waives a PIT tag scanner over the turtle’s front, left flipper. Just like the microchips veterinarians put in dogs and cats, the PIT tag reads an ID number for the turtle, which another volunteer dutifully writes down on a form. 

Sometimes, the PIT scanner finds nothing. After looking for metal tags on each flipper as well, they conclude the turtle is a neophyte – that hasn’t yet been documented, and is possibly laying its very first clutch of eggs in its life. In this case, Pfaller inserts a PIT tag and adds tags to each flipper for future researchers to identify the turtle and add to its documentation. 

Volunteers don’t collect information or samples while the turtle is preparing or actively laying eggs so as not to disturb the process, although once the turtle is laying eggs it enters a focused trance and doesn’t mind the people standing nearby. It hardly seems to notice when a hand reaches underneath its rear and into the nest to select an egg for research. Every now and then, the mother loggerhead will heave a heavy sigh. 

Because they don’t want to disrupt a nesting turtle, CRP’s team is often collecting data on the move while the turtle is lumbering up the beach or returning to the water. 

Moving like a NASCAR pit crew, a small team works quickly and in unison completing separate tasks: measuring shell dimensions, recording the time and location, and reading off tag numbers. One person walks to the side, clipboard in hand, jotting down records that will be logged to a shared database for loggerhead conservation groups. Pfaller and Williams, given their experience and expertise, collect non-invasive skin samples to send off to research labs at the University of Georgia and the University of Florida. 

Instinctual

“Everything about what (the mother loggerhead) is doing is instinct,” Pfaller said. Despite the numerous time he’s watched the nesting process, he marvels that these turtles have no instruction on how to nest correctly from their parents and no way of knowing if they are successful. But like clockwork, they return to nest each couple of years.

Sometimes the loggerheads nest in poor places, such as too close to the water where the tide will wipe out the nest and possibly kill the eggs. Part of CRP’s work during the night is digging up these nests and placing them in a newly dug hole in a safer location. 

Each nest can contain about 120 eggs, and female loggerheads can lay around three to five clutches in a season. After reaching sexual maturity, they rotate between spending three to four years out in the open ocean and returning to nest, although they don’t always nest on the same beach, or even island. Using a ledger of the PIT tag numbers and numbers from tags placed on each front flipper, volunteers can identify the turtle and see where it has been documented before, often nearby nesting sites such as Hilton Head, Ossabaw, Jekyll or beyond. 

At around 3 a.m. the tide has lowered for the night, and the number of turtles pushing themselves up the beach trickles to a stop. With all the nests covered with staked-down mesh and fencing for protection from racoons, rattlesnakes and other predators, the patrol groups drive up and down their sections a few more times before calling it a night, although some will go again in just a few hours at dawn to catch an uncommon dawn-nesting turtle. Back at the staff cabin, Pfaller and a summer intern sit down to begin the tedious work on logging data into their computers. 

Data collection

While conservationists around the world have been tagging turtles since the 1960s and 1970s, a lot of the recorded data on loggerheads is relatively new. It wasn’t until the mid-2000s that CRP has been sampling DNA to learn more about where the turtles were born, where they went to lay eggs and even where they’ve been feeding. The advent of seaturtle.org , a website in which groups like CRP log their data, has helped globalize and make accessible a wealth of shared data on sea turtles. 

CRP’s sustainability isn’t just in turtle populations and continuing a longitudinal study of Wassaw’s nesting turtles. Part of continuing the growing turtle population has to do with people. Volunteers are all ages, ranging from teenagers to graduate researchers to senior citizens. 

“Most people that come out have never seen a turtle before, and never stayed up all night on the beach before, have never slept during the day in 95-degree heat and endured some really bad insects that we can have on the Georgia coast,” Pfaller said.

"I've just loved learning all about them," said Ellie Rauls, a teen volunteer who came from Ohio. Standing by a nest site, she pointed out some of her favorite parts, like how the turtles are so adept at using their flippers to dig such deep holes.

But once they’ve gotten some training, by the end of a week’s stay they have learned lots. Not only have they learned plenty about loggerheads, but they’ll walk away with experience logging scientific data and completing fieldwork. Many volunteers come back year after year. 

CRP also uses donations to fund a scholarship for students to volunteer and do additional work for the program to gain field experience. Additionally, each summer they take on an intern — this year Kegan Kurinij, a University of Georgia undergraduate who has volunteered with the program before.  

Plenty of volunteers are inspired by the work they complete on Wassau. Pfaller should know — he started volunteering when he was only 15 years old and was Williams’ intern back in 1998. He then went to school, studied and researched turtles, and has been serving as CRP’s research director since 2011. 

CRP also fosters continuing, sustainable conservation efforts by partnering with academic researchers, government agencies, and local shrimp trawlers and fishermen. Whether it’s encouraging the use of turtle exclusion devices, which help fishers keep turtles out of their nets, or organizing for them to stay away from the beaches during nesting season, CRP’s outreach extends beyond the beach to open dialogue with much larger communities. 

CRP’s summer nesting season kicks off the Saturday before May 10 each year and lasts 17 weeks, closing the Saturday before Labor Day. By June 1, Pfaller said they had seen about 88 nests. Since 1973, CRP reports that nesting on Wassau has increased more than eight-fold. 

According to Pfaller, even in the mid-2000s, CRP was seeing 60 to 80, maybe 100 loggerhead nests a year. In 2019, Wausau had 280 nests and is projected to have at least that number or more in 2022. 

Marisa Mecke is an environmental journalist covering climate change and the environment. She can be reached at [email protected] or by phone at (912) 328-4411. 

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Analysis of three initial contracts totaling $1 billion demonstrates vast economic benefits for the entire Hudson Tunnel Project

NEWARK, NJ – A new report released today by Regional Plan Association (RPA) finds that the Hudson Tunnel Project (HTP) will generate $19.6 billion in economic activity and create approximately 95,000 jobs during its construction – an increase of 20,000 jobs over previous estimates. The report utilizes research done on behalf of the Gateway Development Commission (GDC) that found the three early works components of the Hudson Tunnel Project currently underway, which represent roughly $1 billion in awarded contracts, will yield 7,500 jobs and generate $625 million of labor income. The new estimates of the project’s overall impact were obtained by extrapolating this analysis over the $16 billion in total construction spend for the Hudson Tunnel Project. 

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