MSI Public Lecture Series

30 years of local beach surveys have found many stranded sea turtles, sea birds and dolphins (and even a few manatees). As a result, these stranded and injured animals led to the establishment of the Animal Rehabilitation Keep (ARK) and to public awareness of the distress of these animals, often caused by human activities.

This talk will concentrate on sea turtles and marine mammals. Every one of the nearly 2,500 sea turtles and the more than 1,000 marine mammals found to date in the Port Aransas area has been measured, weighed, photographed and necropsied when possible, and details submitted to national data bases. In 2007 alone, the ARK dealt with an unprecedented 273 sea turtles. Now we try to find out why!

Tony Amos is a Research Fellow with the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute and director of the Animal Rehabilitation Keep (ARK).  To learn more about his work go to:  http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/people/staff/amos/