GEOL 5740 - Sea Turtle Natural History (4 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 0,2 Lab Hours: 0,6
A field-based course in which students work as sea turtle conservation scientists by monitoring beaches and documenting and recording nesting activity during an 8 to 10 day residence on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Students will prepare for field work with two days of lectures on the GSU campus as well as a training session on GA DNR nest monitoring protocols, prior to field work on St. Catherines Island. Students will keepa daily field journal and prepare a paper on loggerhead sea turtles, documenting nesting behavior, nesting habitat, hatchling emergences and threats to hatchlings and adults using images acquired during their daily monitoring activity.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross Listing(s): GEOL 5740G.