4/9/2019 Day one

Departure was at 0745 hours from the HPA upper campus.  We arrived at our destination at 0830 and set up our work area for doing measurments and drawing blood.
We worked until 1400 hours and then packed up and headed back to the lab where we had another 2 hours during which we processed the blood and tissue samples.

For the day:

4-9-19 KIHOLO

17  total captures

11 new captures

6 recaptures

We also collected blood samples from all 17 turtles.

Below are some images of the work day and the work in the laboratory.

A panoramic view of our work area and the site.

Katie performs an oral exasm on a juvenile green turtle.

Katie and Annika help control a juvenile green turtle during measuring and weighing.  We put a number on each turtle so that people are able to report seeing individual turtles.

Hikari holds a turtle while Jimmy gets ready to collect a blood sample.

Katie holds a turtle while Hikari takes a blood sample.

Jimmy holds a turtle while  Dr. Jones draws a blood samploe.

Annika holds a vile with a tissue sample.

Back in the lab, Hikari decants serum from a centrifuged blood sample.

Annika pipettes serum out of centrifuged blood sample.