Texas Area Contacts to Report Nesting and Stranded Sea Turtles

Phone 1-866-TURTLE-5 or the Texas area contact nearest you:

Location	Response Contact Information
Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston Island, Galveston Bay	NOAA Fisheries (Galveston Lab) Lyndsey Howell/Ben Higgins Tel. [phone] Email: [e-mail] http://www.galvestonlab.sefsc.noaa.gov
Matagorda Peninsula, Sargent Beach	San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge Shane Kasson Tel. [phone] Email: [e-mail] http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/texasmidcoast/sanbernard.htm
Matagorda Island	Aransas National Wildlife Refuge Brad Strobel Tel. [phone] ext. 223 Email: [e-mail] http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/aransas.html
San Jose Island, Mustang Island, Corpus Christi Bay	UT - Marine Science Institute / Animal Rehabilitation Keep Tony Amos Tel. [phone] Email: [e-mail] http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/outreach/animal-rehabilitation-keep.html
North Padre Island, Upper Laguna Madre	Padre Island National Seashore Texas Coordinator for the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network Donna Shaver, PhD Tel. [phone] ext. 226 Email: [e-mail] http://www.nps.gov/pais/naturescience/stranded_turtles.htm
South Padre Island, Boca Chica, Lower Laguna Madre (Nesting Turtles Only)	Sea Turtle, Inc. Jeff George Tel: [phone] Email: [e-mail] http://www.seaturtleinc.org
South Padre Island, Boca Chica, Lower Laguna Madre (Stranded Turtles Only)	UT-Pan American, Coastal Studies Lab Thomas Whelan Tel. [phone] Email: [e-mail] http://www.panam.edu/csl/