Publications

The Caretta Research Project periodically publishes a newsletter, The Chelonibia, to its contributors and volunteers. These are all in Adobe Acrobat format; To get Adobe Acrobat, click here.

• Spring 2007 Issue
• Fall 2007 Issue
• Spring 2008 Issue
• Fall 2008 Issue
• Fall 2009 Annual Report
• Fall 2009 Issue
• NEW! Fall 2010 Annual Report!
• NEW! Fall 2010 Newsletter!

Over the years, a number of authors have included the Caretta Research Project in their scientific publications. These are all in Adobe Acrobat format; To get Adobe Acrobat, click here.

NOTE: Some of these documents are quite large, and will open up in a new window.

Kristina L. Williams and Michael G. Frick. Tag Returns from Loggerhead Turtles from Wassaw Island, GA. Southeastern Naturalist, 7(1): 165-172, 2008.

Lianne Pierrardi and Michael G. Frick. Scavenging of Turtle Carcasses by American Alligators, Alligator mississippiensis, in Georgia, USA. 20th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium, 2000.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, and Lianne Pierrardi. Summertime Foraging and Feeding by Immature Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) from Georgia. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, Volume 4 - Number 1, 2001.

Herpetological Review 29(4), 1998.

Michael G. Frick, Catherine A. Quinn, Christopher K. Slay. DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA (Leatherback Sea Turtle),LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPI ( Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle), and
CARETTA CARETTA (Loggerhead Sea Turtle) PELAGIC FEEDING. Herpetological Review 30(3), 1999.

Michael G. Frick, Christopher K. Slay, Catherine A. Quinn, Alicia Windham-Reid, Peter A. Duley, Cheryl M. Ryder, and Laura J. Morse. Aerial Observations of Courtship Behavior in Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) from Southeastern Georgia and Northeastern Florida. Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2000.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, David Veljacic, Lianne Pierrard, James A. Jackson,
& Stacie E. Knight. Newly Documented Epibiont Species from Nesting Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in Georgia, USA. Marine Turtle Newsletter 88:3-5, @ 2000.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, and David Veljacic. Additional Evidence Supporting a Cleaning Association between Epibiotic Crabs and Sea Turtles: How will the Harvest of Sargassum Seaweed Impact this Relationship? Marine Turtle Newsletter 90:11-12, @ 2000.

Michael G. Frick and Arnold Ross. An Oft Told Story: Man's Impact on Green Turtles in the Caribbean, Circa 1720. Marine Turtle Newsletter 94: 11, 2001.

Michael G. Frick and Arnold Ross. Will the Real Chelonibia testudinaria Please Come Forward: An Appeal. Marine Turtle Newsletter No. 94: 16, 2001.

Michael G. Frick and Arnold Ross. Happenstance or Design: An Unusual Association between a Sea Turtle, Octocoral and Barnacle. Marine Turtle Newsletter No. 97: 10-11, 2002.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, and David Veljacic. A Record of the Northernmost, Verified Leatherback Sea Turtle Nesting Event on the East Coast of the USA. Marine Turtle Newsletter No. 97:12-13, 2002.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, David Veljacic, J. Andrew Jackson, and Stacie Knight. Epibiont Community Succession on Nesting Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Caretta Caretta, from Georgia, USA. 20th Annual Sea Turtle Conference Proceedings, 2000: 280-282.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, and David Veljacic. New records of epibionts from Loggerhead Sea Turtles Caretta caretta. Bulletin of Marine Science, 70(3): 953-956, 2002.

Michael G. Frick. A Guide for the Identification of Stranded Sea Turtles: The Eastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico. Savannah Science Museum, Savannah, GA, USA, 1996.

Michael G. Frick. Lepidochelys kempi (Kemp's Ridley), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead), and Malaclemys terrapin centrata (Carolina Diamondback Terrapin) Diet and Predation. Herpetological Review: 28(3), 1997.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, and Michael Robinson. Epibionts associated with nesting Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in Georgia, USA. Herpetological Review, 29(4), 1998.

Michael G. Frick and Christopher Slay. Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle) Epizoans. Herpetological Review, 31(2), 2000.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, Alan Bolten, Karen Bjornda, and Helen Martins. Diet and fecundity of Columbus Crabs, Plannes Minutus, associated with oceanic-stage Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Caretta caretta, and inanimate flotsam. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 24(2): 350-355, 2004.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, and David Veljacic. Additional evidence supporting a cleaning association between epibiont crabs and sea turtles: How will the harvest of Sargassum seaweed impact this relationship? Marine Turtle Newsletter 90: 11-13, 2000.

Michael G. Frick, Peri Mason, Kristina L. Williams, Kimberly Andrews, and Heidi Gerstung. Epibionts of Hawksbill Turtles in a Caribbean nesting ground: A potentially unique association with Snapping Shrimp (Crustacea: Alpheidae). Marine Turtle Newsletter 99: 8-11, 2003.

Michael G. Frick. The Surf Crab (Arenaeus cribrarius): A predator and prey item of Sea Turtles. Marine Turtle Newsletter 99: 16-18, 2003.

Michael G. Frick, Arnold Ross, Kristina L. Williams, Alan Bolten, Karen Bjornda, and Helen Martins. Epibiotic associates of oceanic-stage Loggerhead Sea Turtles from the southeastern north Atlantic. Marine Turtle Newsletter 101: 18-20, 2003.

Michael G. Frick, Kristina L. Williams, Emily Markesteyn, Joseph Pfaller, and Rebecca Frick. New records and observations of epibionts from Loggerhead Sea Turtles. Souteastern Naturalist 3(4): 613-620, 2004.

P. D. Rawson, R. MacNamee, M. G. Frick, and K. L. Williams. Phylogeography of the coronulid barnacle, Chelonibia testudinaria, from loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta.