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Padre Island National Seashore
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. (490) 766-3670

Email: lyndsey.howell@noaa.gov

http://galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov/

Matagorda Peninsula, Sargent Beach

 

San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge

Jennifer Sanchez or Shane Kasson

Tel. (979) 964-3639

Email: jennifer_sanchez@fws.gov

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/texasmidcoast/sanbernard.htm

Matagorda Island

 

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

Chad Stinson

Tel. (361) 286-3559

Email: chad_stinson@fws.gov

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. (361) 442-7638

Email: afamos@utmsi.zo.utexas.edu

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. (361) 949-8173 ext. 226

Email: e-mail us

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: (956) 761-4511

Email: seaturtleinc@yahoo.com           

http://www.seaturtleinc.org

                      

South Padre Island, Boca Chica, Lower Laguna Madre

(Stranded Turtles Only)

UT-Pan American, Coastal Studies Lab

Don Hockaday

Tel. (956) 761-2644

Email: hockaday@panam.edu

http://www.panam.edu/csl/



 

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