4th Annual Sea Turtle Workshop at HPU

Date: October 04, 2024

Times: 08:00 AM - 02:00 PM

Location: ATM, MPR3 and via Zoom

Contact Name: George Balazs, itsahonuworldinhawaii@hotmail.com

Details:

All are warmly invited to attend the 4^th annual Turtle Workshop at Hawaiʻi Pacific University.

The 2024 workshop is titled "Signals of Carrying Capacity from Green Turtles in Hawaiʻi: Sifting the Wheat from the Chaff," and its goal is to stimulate interest and action in finding answers to puzzling important questions relevant to the conservation status of Hawaiʻi's green turtle population.

Registration requested at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6RrzJhUPi5JEqbdLwECVIOZvfd32f0m7zbdeCWV_P_l57UA/viewform

Program agenda:

7:45 am-8:30 am Registration Sign-In, Coffee & Pastries

8:30 am-8:45 am Start of Zoom, 

Welcome and Ceremonial Hawaiian Blessing of Attendees & Turtles 

Presentations

8:45-9 am #1- Why this workshop? Puzzling important questions about the conservation status of Hawaiian Honu and their Ecosystem- George Balazs 

9-9:15 am #2- The theory and math of modelling carrying capacity- Dr. David Hyrenbach 

9:15-9:30 am #3- The origins of ECOPATH and its application to the Kaloko-Honokohau marine ecosystem- Dr. Jeffrey Polovina

9:30-9:45 am #4- Estimating carrying capacity at the green turtle nesting beach of East Island, French Frigate Shoals (Lalo)- Dr. Manjula Tiwari

9:45-10 am #5- Tiger shark research in Hawaii- Dr. Kim Holland

10-10:30am- Break and Group Photo in Courtyard

10:30-10:45 am #6- Kauai's honu phenomenon: the crossroads of coexistence- Dr. Lisa Harrington and Deborah Herrera

10:45-11 am #7- Corpulent or malnourished? Depends on where the world's most abundant large marine herbivores live- Dr. Milani Chaloupka

11-11:15 am #8- A summary of green turtle growth rates and residency durations at three long-term study sites in West Hawaii- Laura Jim 

11:15-11:30 am #9- Necropsy shows low body condition in turtles from Kona versus other sites in Hawaii- Dr. Thierry Work

11:30-11:45 am #10- Balancing marine life: towards managing green turtles and seagrass ecosystems in Okinawa, Japan- Dr. Tomoko Hamabata

11:45am-2 pm Box/Bag Lunch in Meeting Room with Facilitated Group Discussions, Questions & Answers Striving to ...'Sift the Wheat from the Chaff.' 

2 pm Closing- Follow-ups and Farewell until our HPU 5th Workshop.

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