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Loggerhead Release Provides Valuable Tracking Data

Dr. Kirt Rusenko and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles raised in captivity into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet. Dubbed Milton and FeeBee, the turtles hatched on Florida beaches in 2002. The pair will be satellite tagged by Dr. Kate Mansfield of UM’s Rosenstiel School to see if the turtles behave differently than wild turtles. Read more…

Brian Soden
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Contrasting Hurricane Theories Heat Up

In a paper published in the journal Science on October 31, Gabriel A. Vecchi of NOAA/GFDL, Kyle L. Swanson of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and Brian J. Soden from UM’s Rosenstiel School teamed up to study hurricane data observed over +50 years. They explore the relationship between sea surface temperature and seasonal hurricane activity, and show that differing hypotheses of the observational record can imply vastly different futures for Atlantic hurricane activity due to global warming. Read more…