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#SciFund Challenge: Turtles in the Deep

Posted on November 9, 2011December 9, 2011 By Andrew Thaler 1 Comment on #SciFund Challenge: Turtles in the Deep
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#SciFund is a month-and-a-half long initiative to raise funds for a variety of scientific research projects. Project leaders post a project description and an appeal for funds, and members of the public are invited to make small donations to projects that they deem worthy. Donations come with rewards such as access to project logs, images from fieldwork, your name in the acknowledgements of publications, among other possibilities. Many of these projects are marine or conservation themed. Over the next week, we’ll highlight some of our favorites. Please take a look at these projects and, should you so desire, send some financial support their way. If you do make a donation, let them know how you found out about their project and leave a comment (anonymous if you’d like) on this post letting us know.


Turtles in the Deep

Lindsey Peavey is a graduate student at the University of California (and formerly from the Duke University Marine Lab) who studies the ecology of large marine vertebrates, including sea turtles. She is currently tracking the foraging behavior of Olive Ridley sea turtles in the open ocean. Funding for this project will go towards covering travel expenses, satellite tracking tags, and supporting research interns.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYa7ABY1ZMQ

As a nice bonus, her home institute will match funding, so your donation will count double. It’s a good enough project that we’ll even forgive her misuse of the term “deep” for “open ocean”, because we can’t all be as poetic as deep-sea biologists. Go check out Lindsey’s project page and pitch in to help a new graduate student get her research off the ground.

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One thought on “#SciFund Challenge: Turtles in the Deep”

  1. Lindsey Peavey says:
    November 10, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Andrew – thanks so much for featuring my project! Much appreciated. Lets Go Duke!! (Say hi to the DUML and Coach K for me 🙂

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