Come join the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on August 25th at 7:00pm at the Brunswick Library as GSTC staff member Jeannie Miller and GSTC volunteers Jane Bryson, George Stiegler, Gary Buckles, and Richard Chewning as they discuss the St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring program and share exciting stories about working in the West Indies.

This summer the Georgia Sea Turtle Center partnered with the St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network in order to conduct nesting female leatherback sea turtle nest monitoring. Throughout the months of April to July Jeannie, Jane, George, Gary, and Richard traveled to St. Kitts to conduct night time tagging and health assessments on leatherback sea turtles and to participate in community education and outreach.

Leatherbacks are the largest of the sea turtles weighing in at 2000 pounds and can be 9-12 feet long. They are considered a critically endangered species losing numbers to things such as fisheries interactions and coastal development.