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A friend told Tracy Tempest that there were green sea turtles in the bay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked for a long time, but couldn\u2019t find them. When I found them, I just became fascinated with them,\u201d says Tempest, a community scientist who works with local National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists to monitor the turtles. \u201cIt became important to me to, one, encourage boats to slow down and to protect the turtles and other species, like the migratory birds that are here in the water; and two, to share it with others because it\u2019s a beautiful place to go out and kayak, and just be around nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These reptiles are in San Diego year-round, but summer is the best time of year to see them because of the warmer temperatures they prefer. They can grow up to 4 feet and weigh as much as 400 pounds, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Sea Turtle Conservancy notes that they\u2019re the second-largest sea turtle, and they\u2019re herbivores, munching on a diet of seagrass and eelgrass in temperate and tropical waters. Thanks to global conservation efforts, they\u2019ve been reclassified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources from \u201cendangered\u201d to \u201cleast concern\u201d because of their increasing population. Locally, they\u2019ve been spotted at the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge\u2019s South San Diego Bay unit and its Sweetwater Marsh unit.<\/p>\n

Before Tempest began monitoring the sea turtles in 2020 \u2014 work that has been recognized with the Emerald Keeper of the Month and the Environmental Hero Award for Water in 2022 and 2025 \u2014 she says she retired from \u201call kinds of stuff,\u201d to include careers as a tennis pro, teacher, real estate insurance, manager for the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, building houses as a supervisor for Habitat for Humanity, and volunteering at the Helen Woodward Animal Center and Cabrillo National Monument. On Saturday, she joins Anna Cahill, a lab technician with the Marine Turtle Ecology and Assessment Program at NOAA\u2019s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, for \u201cSea Turtle Science Talk: The Green Turtles of San Diego\u2019s South Bay & How to Be a Citizen Scientist\u201d at 10 a.m. in the visitor center training room of the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve in Imperial Beach. Tempest took some time to talk about the green sea turtles, some of their history in San Diego, and their place in the ecosystem. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a community scientist who\u2019s worked with local NOAA scientists to study these green sea turtles. First, what is a community scientist?<\/p>\n

Basically, becoming a community scientist is just being willing to observe and share what you see with scientists who are able to collect that data and then use that data to help with their management system and conservation of a species. It could be a protected species like a turtle, or you could just be letting someone know you saw a certain kind of bird in your environment, and someone\u2019s out there who\u2019s interested in that.<\/p>\n

How long have you been a community scientist and how were you introduced to this work?<\/p>\n

I became a community scientist in 2015, but at that time I was just observing the turtles year-round, knowing the different times a year where they were, and then sharing it with neighbors. People would say, \u201cI hear there are turtles out there,\u201d and nobody believed it. Once I found them \u2014 after saying exactly the same thing, that I didn\u2019t believe it, or no they\u2019re not \u2014 I started going out with neighbors and sharing the information with them. About five years later, a neighbor contacted NOAA and told them they needed to know about me and my sightings. I guess that\u2019s how I officially became a community scientist because I was then giving data to the scientists.<\/p>\n

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Originally, you use a QR code or a link, and there\u2019s a questionnaire where anybody can cite any species of turtle from a sighting, primarily on the West Coast. You complete their questionnaire, and that becomes data for the scientists to know how often they\u2019re seen here. My real connection came in 2020 when I became quote-unquote \u201cinvaluable\u201d to them because NOAA was not permitted to be on the water due to COVID. So, I became their eyes on the water.<\/p>\n

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How would you describe San Diego\u2019s green sea turtles? What role do they play in our local environment?<\/p>\n

Basically, they\u2019re very important to an ecosystem. First of all, they come from Mexico. They\u2019re born in Mexico, about 1,600 miles from here. Then, they might come into our bay from about age 3 to 5 (years old). Down here in the South Bay, there is a just large amount of seagrass, or eel grass, which is their main diet because they\u2019re herbivores, unlike many sea turtles. So, they\u2019re here just getting fat, getting their energy, growing up until they\u2019re probably about 20, and then they start migrating back to Mexico; maybe every couple of years for a male, and maybe every three years for females, so they can give birth on the same beach they were born on. Then, they come back and get fat and get energy again to make these long migrations.<\/p>\n

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A fascinating part is that they\u2019re really great sentinels for the ecosystem and health of the bay. Instead of seeing emaciated and sad turtles, we see very healthy, fat turtles, so we know that this foraging area, and others in Southern California, are healthy ecosystems. They also have a unique digestive system, and when they eat the algae and the seagrass, it goes through their body very fast, so they\u2019re able to poop it out fast, in hours or days. That enables the other animal species living in this environment to get access to food that would have taken them weeks to get from the eel grass. (According to the Coral Reef Alliance, a nonprofit that works to protect coral reefs, these turtles also excrete nutrient-rich waste because of their diets, which supplies nutrients to nearby coral reefs, aiding in the growth and development of these invertebrates.)<\/p>\n

Lastly, they\u2019re really good about eating the food here, and then using it to go south for their reproductive migration, mating, egg laying. They\u2019re known as sort of the regulators and the engineers of an ecosystem, and they are good at it.<\/p>\n

What is some of the history of these local turtles?<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been around in the bay pretty much forever, but they were really studied and first seen by the (South Bay) power plant that used to be over in Chula Vista. They were seen from, say, 1960 to when it was decommissioned in 2010. At that time, there were believed to be about 60 turtles. Then, there was a major study by a lady named Marjorie Stinson, who was with San Diego State University, and she wrote a thesis that studied the turtles in the bay. (Marjorie \u201cMargie\u201d Stinson first studied the turtles in the 1970s as part of her graduate research, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.) Then, in about 1990 some of the NOAA scientists got involved with studying them, so they\u2019ve been here, but they\u2019re increasing; we\u2019re up to probably 150 to 200 that forage in this area year-round.<\/p>\n

What has that process been like to get their numbers up?<\/p>\n

A lot of it has been protecting the nests in Mexico and helping with the threats. The threats to turtles can be the nets that fishermen use, so there\u2019s helping the fishermen develop nets where the turtles don\u2019t become bycatch, which means unintended capture. Or, hooks, or degradation of a nesting environment can also be threats. Now, since the numbers are increasing in our bay, the greater the chance vessel strikes them, or of a boat hitting them. So, but it\u2019s protection and just working all ends of it\u2014working with the fishermen, protecting the nests on the beach from people taking the eggs, or from dogs or raccoons getting them. Just protecting them, in general.<\/p>\n

What can you tell us about the research you\u2019ve been part of? What\u2019s been the motivation for the research, and what have you learned as a result?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty much a science question for the NOAA, but I\u2019ll tell you as much as I can. There\u2019s research going on all the time; for example, they\u2019re looking at the number of females versus males, which is very important in terms of management and protecting this species, or any species. With climate change the way it is, it can affect the turtles substantially. When they lay their eggs, there\u2019s no sex. They\u2019re sex indeterminate, so depending on the temperature of the sand within the second-third of their incubation, whatever the temperature of that sand is determines the sex of all the eggs. (According to the National Ocean Service, the green sea turtles\u2019 temperature-dependent sex determination dictates that if a turtle\u2019s eggs incubate below 81.86 degrees Fahrenheit, the hatchlings will be male; if the temperature is above 88.8 degrees, the hatchlings will be female. If temperatures are between those numbers, there will be a mix of female and male babies. With rising temperatures due to climate change, this could lead to skewed and dangerous incubation conditions.) That\u2019s one of the things they study because, obviously, if there are no males in the future, that\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n

They also study how many turtles are living in the San Diego Bay, and that can be done based on capturing, and then a mathematical formula for whether they\u2019re new, meaning they have never been tagged before, or they\u2019re ones that have been recaptured. They can also look at drone footage counting how many turtles are seen in a drone sighting.<\/p>\n

They also they put satellite transmitters on some turtles, and that enables scientists to know their migration routes within the bay, and possibly as far as to Mexico. That helps in terms of the management of the bay, of boat passage. They also put a CATS (Customized Animal Tracking Solutions) camera on a turtle periodically, and that can show the amount of eel grass the turtle\u2019s eating. It\u2019s also starting to reveal that turtles aren\u2019t quite as solitary as everybody thought; they\u2019re seeing some interactions, turtle-to-turtle. I think that\u2019s a pretty good idea of what they do.<\/p>\n

Where can people see these turtles?<\/p>\n

The best place to see them is the Chula Vista Marina (and La Jolla Cove and the Safe Harbor Sunroad Resort & Marina, based on a blog post from San Diego Coastkeeper). They like the warmer water in the summer because there\u2019s the abundance of the eelgrass. They tend to be in the middle of the bay, but you can see them anywhere. I\u2019ve seen them from the Living Coast Discovery Center and the aquatic center over in Coronado. They can also be seen down by the Navy ships and down by Seaport Village, but not nearly the numbers you\u2019re going to see in the South Bay in the refuge.<\/p>\n

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