Hawksbill sea turtles in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
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2012-06-01
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This study reports observations of Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, a remote and protected expanse of coral atolls considered outside the species range. Since no direct monitoring efforts exist, we synthesized records from historical accounts, opportunistic sightings, and internet crowdsourcing. We found 6 definitive hawksbill observations and 3 additional potential nesting records, documenting that hawksbills currently reside in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and suggesting that they occurred there in greater numbers historically. © 2012 Chelonian Research Foundation.
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Van Houtan, KS, JN Kittinger, AL Lawrence, C Yoshinaga, VR Born and A Fox (2012). Hawksbill sea turtles in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 11(1). pp. 117–121. 10.2744/CCB-0984.1 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/35664.
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Kyle Van Houtan
I am a conservation biologist and teacher-scholar whose independent, externally funded research shows how global change reshapes populations, communities, and ecosystems. My research focuses on indicator species—birds, turtles, otters, sharks, corals, kelps—as ecological sentinels of climate and other human pressures. I integrate field monitoring, experiments, biochemical forensics, biotelemetry, and machine learning to connect organismal biology to ecosystem change. I am the founder and director of two research laboratories, and I actively mentor students and build research programs to train the next generation of conservation scientists.
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