{"id":2581,"date":"2012-05-07T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2012-05-07T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T20:00:11","slug":"biology-professor-featured-in-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/biology-professor-featured-in-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea turtles, whales deter oil surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Today recently wrote an article titled &#8220;Sea turtles, whales deter oil surveys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/05\/Ehrhart-295x401.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2587\" title=\"Ehrhart-295x401\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/05\/Ehrhart-295x401-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/05\/Ehrhart-295x401-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/05\/Ehrhart-295x401-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>They reached out to <strong>Biology Professor Llew Ehrhart<\/strong> for his expert opinion on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental study includes several alternatives for ways to avoid harming whales, sea turtles and other wildlife. Proposals include closing areas up to about six nautical miles offshore of Brevard to seismic surveying during sea turtle nesting season \u2014 May 1 to Oct. 31. An additional area 20 nautical miles out could be off-limits for the sound surveying during right whale migration \u2014 Nov. 15 to April 15.\u00a0Other proposals include requiring a 25-mile separation between concurrent seismic air gun surveys and requiring use of passive acoustic monitoring devices as part of the seismic air gun surveys.<\/p>\n<p>The northern segment of the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge borders the area being considered for the surveying and has an estimated 25 percent of all loggerhead sea turtle nesting in the United States.\u00a0Llew Ehrhart, a biologist who studies sea turtle nesting on Archie Carr, said he would need to study what\u2019s being proposed before knowing whether the activity would harm turtles. Sea turtles don\u2019t have ear drums or external ears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir auditory sense is \u2014 as it should be \u2014 adapted to vibrations in the water,\u201d said Ehrhart.<\/p>\n<p>Most research revolves around sound impacts on marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we still have a lot to learn in terms of the effect on other marine and aquatic animals,\u201d Ehrhart said.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20120423\/NEWS01\/304230011\/Sea-turtles-whales-deter-oil-surveys?odyssey=nav%7Chead&amp;nclick_check=1\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To contact Ehrhart regarding his research or for comments on current biology research please view his information <a href=\"http:\/\/biology.cos.ucf.edu\/faculty\/llweellyn-ehrhart\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Today recently wrote an article titled &#8220;Sea turtles, whales deter oil surveys.&#8221; They reached out to Biology Professor Llew Ehrhart for his expert opinion on the topic. 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