We collaborate with researchers and conservation organizations to conduct laboratory-based experiments to understand how wild sea turtles and diamondback terrapins interact with fishing gear and bycatch reduction devices. Conducting controlled trials in experimental tanks allows us to gain a detailed understanding of sea turtle and diamondback terrapin behavior in relation to fishery hazards and deterrents, which helps optimize bycatch reduction technologies that can then be tested in fisheries.
Representative publications:
- Novel behavioral responses of sea turtles to gillnet fishing gear
- Underwater sea turtle behavior recognition: A lightweight pose-to-action pipeline
- Revealing sea turtle behavior in relation to fishing gear using color-coded spatiotemporal motion patterns with deep neural networks
- Reduced conspicuity of gillnets limits detection and avoidance behavior in sea turtles (coming soon)
- Effects of a novel fisher-invented diamondback terrapin excluder device in crab trap fisheries (coming soon)