Ke hoʻolaha nei i ka 2021 Boyd Lyon Scholar

I kēlā me kēia makahiki, mālama ʻia ka Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund i kahi haʻawina no kahi haumāna biology moana nona ka noiʻi ʻana i nā honu kai. ʻO Natalia Teryda ka lanakila o kēia makahiki.

He haumāna PhD ʻo Natalia Teryda i aʻo ʻia e Dr. Ray Carthy ma ka Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit. No Mar del Plata, Argentina, ua loaʻa iā Natalia kāna BS ma Biology mai Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). Ma hope o kona puka ʻana, ua hiki iā ia ke hoʻomau i kāna ʻoihana ma ka ʻimi ʻana i ke kēkelē laepua ma Advanced Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation ma ka Scripps Institution of Oceanography ma UC San Diego ma Kaleponi ma ke ʻano he Fulbright Grantee. Ma UF, hauʻoli ʻo Natalia e hoʻomau i kāna noiʻi ʻana a me kāna hana ʻana i ke kaiaola a me ka mālama ʻana i ka honu kai, ma ke aʻo ʻana i nā honu ʻili a me nā honu ʻōmaʻomaʻo e hoʻohana ana i ka ʻenehana drone ma nā kahakai o Argentina a me Uruguay. 

Manaʻo ka papahana a Natalia e hoʻohui i ka ʻenehana drone a me ka mālama ʻana i nā honu ʻōmaʻomaʻo ma Uruguay. E hoʻomohala a hoʻohui ʻo ia i kahi ala holoʻokoʻa i ka nānā ʻana a me ka mālama ʻana i kēia ʻano a me ko lākou mau wahi noho kahakai ma o ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā drones e hōʻiliʻili i nā kiʻi maʻamau a me ka wehewehe kiʻekiʻe. E alakaʻi ʻia nā hoʻoikaika ʻana i ka hoʻokolokolo ʻana i kahi iʻa e hoʻopau ʻia me ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā ʻenehana hou, ka hoʻoikaika ʻana i nā ʻoihana mālama ʻāina a me ka hoʻokele ʻana, a me ka hoʻohui ʻana i kēia mau ʻāpana me ke kūkulu ʻana i ke kaiāulu. Ma muli o ka hilinaʻi nui o nā honu ʻōmaʻomaʻo ʻōpiopio i nā kahua hānai ma ka SWAO, e hoʻohana ana kēia papahana i ka UAS no ke kālailai ʻana i ke kuleana kaiaola o ka honu ʻōmaʻomaʻo ma kēia mau wahi noho kahakai a no ka loiloi ʻana i ka hopena o kā lākou laha ʻana e ka ʻokoʻa o ka nohona pili i ke aniau.

E ʻike hou aku e pili ana i ka Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund maanei.