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Alexa Putillo-Wehry | Marine Biologist

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🐢Sea turtle ecology & conservation
👩‍💻PhD candidate
🌊 Fieldwork, scicomm, & coastal adventures
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The most special send-off from ~ a dozen dolphin friends to close out our last day of the field season/my last day in the field before I graduate. It’s been such a privilege to work out here the last couple years (and I’ll prob have to be making another post just to appreciate this habitat some more). Encounters like these while we’re out in the office never get old 🐬🌈 (Yeah yeah these dolphins were prob mating but I’m telling myself they were saying bye and thanks for a great season!) Song is Field Trip by Thomas Newman from Finding Nemo. I don’t own it nor do I claim to so Disney please don’t mute it thx <3
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Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica 🌺🥥🌞🦜🦥 Drone footage by @alfasavlog Pipas, playas, patacones, y perezosos by @planetconservation (Also…. it took me 4 months to make this because I couldn’t find a song I was satisfied with. aaaaanyways…)
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The Endangered Species Act is under threat and GOOD NEWS there’s a bipartisan fix on the table. Earlier this year, the definition of “harm” under the ESA was quietly rewritten to exclude habitat destruction — meaning bulldozing a species’ home no longer counts as harming it. For 50+ years, protecting habitat has been the backbone of how we keep species off the extinction list. Gutting that definition guts the law itself. The good news: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Mike Quigley (D-IL) introduced H.R. 9901, the Safeguarding Endangered Species Act, to nullify that rollback and restore habitat protections. It’s not too late to reverse this but it takes pressure. Call your representative today and ask them to co-sponsor and support H.R. 9901. Extinction is forever; a phone call takes two minutes. 🌎 Repost from @taylors_nature thank you for sharing so we can all follow suit! #EndangeredSpeciesAct #HR9901 #Conservation #CallYourRep
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MOBILE WATER LAB 12 immersive stations that the students rotated through for a full day to act as scientists. It consisted of: Microscopes, Refractometers, Driving Underwater ROVs, Watershed Demo, Cloud in a Jar & Tea Candle Pressure Demos, Beans & Spoons Game, Upwelling Demo, Building a Buoy, Blubber Glove Experience, Building a Sinkhole, Underwater Planetarium Show, and @sccoos_org brought out Real Life Instrumentation Items: Ocean Glider, Ocean Buoy, & Weather Sensor. Staffed by the incredible Water Pros: @inspectorplanet @_mckensea @smitchell_science @astronautabbyofficial @dirtmossart @melissacristinamarquez @anaiyaelder @djdavis123 @ocean_alexa @trinal.ray @erinwinick @space_case_sarah @hiphopscienceshow Media: @singlepoint.media #stem #science #stemeducation
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So excited to share that yesterday I successfully defended my masters thesis in Biological Oceanography at FSU! 🍾🐢🪩🫧 For the past two years I’ve been investigating the inter- and intraspecific interactions between three sympatric sea turtle species in a foraging habitat off Florida’s Big Bend— or, since that’s a mouthful— Stalking the Social Lives of Sea Turtles 🐢 We tagged sea turtles with animal-borne CATS cameras to collect fine-scale behavioral and movement data to contextualize interactions between them and gain better insights into the population and community dynamics in this critical foraging habitat. It’s so exciting to see hours of video annotations and analyses culminated in this final product + to share it with you all. Hopefully you’ll be able to read about it soon! A huge thank you to my incredible advisors, Dr. Mariana Fuentes and Dr. Josh Manning, who have provided invaluable guidance and mentorship throughout this project, and even before I started my masters and was a wee undergrad just dipping my fins in the research pool. And many big thanks to my incredible coauthors, labmates, supportive friends + fam, anyone who helped out in the field, and the turtles we tagged who served as ambassadors for their species to collect this data! - Sophie Rosengarten, MSc 𓆉𓆝 ⋆｡𖦹°‧ — NMFS Permit # 19496 and FWC Permit # 243 // all photos taken during permitted research- do not attempt to re-create
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Last month I had the incredible opportunity to join the Waterworld Education Program. A week of teaching K-8 students about marine science was truly unforgettable. I talked about my Antarctic research, showcasing deep-sea / polar gigantism, and demonstrated deep-sea exploration. I had so much fun working with these students and answering their questions. I only hope that I’ve inspired some to stay curious and to dream big. Working with this team was so special too. Everyone in the Waterworld team was so passionate and quick to support each other. They truly make science fun. Thank you @singlepoint.media for the amazing photos! #waterworld #educator #marinescience #scicom #stemeducationforkids
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WATER PROs During the Oxnard School district Waterworld Program, our Water Pros visited classrooms to teach students about their areas of expertise and guide the students through an activity of their choosing. From Antarctic research and submarine missions to sea turtle conservation and oil spill cleanups, our experts shared their passions with 1,000+ K-8th grade students. Students got first-hand recounts and experience of things like what’s in our water, where do sea creatures live, is there water in outer space, how to build a boat, and so much more!! Images from the amazing @singlepoint.media #stem #stemeducation #enrichment
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what an incredible group of people I got the honor of working with 🐋🩵 @inspectorplanet 🌊 oceanographer that has held some incredible jobs like working at @noaa & being on @mythbusters @melissacristinamarquez 🦈 shark researcher & writer @astronautabbyofficial 👩‍🚀 A superwoman that was s running her lab & working on her PhD while at Water World @erinwinick 🚢 yes, THAT Erin Winick-Anthony (she’s so cool 🥲) and she just got to her next ocean expedition aboard @nautiluslive @dirtmossart 🎨 an incredible scientific illustrator reminding us how much science needs art 🐠 @ocean_alexa 🐢 out there saving sea turtles like that’s not the coolest job @smitchell_science 🌋 okay maybe underwater volcanologist is the coolest job @anaiyaelder 🎓 a fresh grad getting to do something pretty cool with that new degree @djdavis123 🐧 studies the coldest ocean and makes it look easy @trinal.ray 🔭 spent her career working on getting us a better look at the oceans in space @kevinjdebruin put together Water World & brought all these water professionals together @singlepoint.media for the group shot cover photo 📸 #scicomm #marinescience #scienceandtechnology
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WATERWORLD We ran a 3-week water-themed summer program for the Oxnard, CA school district across 7 sites, 50 classrooms, and 1,000+ K-8th grade students. WATER PROs from around the world (AUS, UK, CAN, USA) visited individual classrooms to showcase their work and lead the students through a hands-on activity of their choosing. WATER CLASS is 10-hrs of enrichment curriculum - 10 educational videos each paired with a hands-on activity and experiment - designed and hosted by environmental engineer & scientist Dr. Tracy Fanara aka @inspectorplanet. Our MOBILE WATER LAB was 12 immersive stations that the students rotated through for a full day to act as scientists. Co-designed by @kevinjdebruin & @inspectorplanet it consisted of: Microscopes, Refractometers, Driving Underwater ROVs, Watershed Demo, Cloud in a Jar & Tea Candle Pressure Demos, Beans & Spoons Game, Building a Buoy, Upwelling Demo, Blubber Glove Experience, Building a Sinkhole, Underwater Planetarium Show, and Real Life Instrumentation Items: Ocean Glider, Ocean Buoy, & Weather Sensor. #stem #stemeducation #water
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WATER PROs Such an incredible group of individuals to be my Water Pros during the Oxnard Waterworld Summer Program. They went into dozens of classrooms to share their passion, their knowledge, and lead them through a hand-picked activity to foster creativity and build an emotional experience-based memory to the curriculum. Thanks for coming out and hitting to educating & inspiring 1,000 K-8 students!! @inspectorplanet @_mckensea @smitchell_science @astronautabbyofficial @dirtmossart @melissacristinamarquez @anaiyaelder @djdavis123 @ocean_alexa @trinal.ray @erinwinick @space_case_sarah @hiphopscienceshow (not pictured) oxnardschooldistrict @ginger.shea.54 Images: thanks to @singlepoint.media #stem #science #stemeducation
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FIELDWORK PHASE 1 COMPLETE (night edition) ✅ to say I am proud of this accomplishment is an understatement! 👩🏼‍🔬My team spend the better part of July walking hundreds of miles, through blisters, aches, and ailments to encounter nesting females on St. George Island! 🐢We collected data for my project as well as multiple State and International collaboration studies. Pictured are just a few of the incredible research experiences I was so fortunate to conduct. A huge THANK YOU and congratulations to my lab and the St. George Island Sea Turtle Patrol volunteers for an incredible phase 1 of PhD data collection 🥹🥰 1. Collecting blood for my second chapter 2. Sporting the box backpack for satellite tagging 3. Our last Satellite tagged female: Betsy 250 4. PTB and Gunner after a successful sat tag Samson 5. Collecting a fresh egg for my PhD chap 2 6. A wild lizard and PTB with one of many sat ladies 7. A female loggerhead returning after a nest! 8. That fresh track feeling (iykyk) All activities conducted under Marine Turtle Permit #MTP25-26-239B and funding for my project provided by Florida Sea Turtle License Plate Grant Program 🩸🥚
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100+ miles walked under the stars on a little north fl island full of turtles ✨ MTP25-26-239B // all photos taken during permitted research under red light- do not attempt to re-create
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