As I began planning this project, one of the most challenging questions I faced was “how am I going to choose where to sample?”. As it turns out, picking a state was easy. 90% of the Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting in the United States occurs in Florida. Attempting to narrow down where in Florida I might try to sample, I stumbled across NOAA’s (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS). ..

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