Kayla Goforth- Doctor of Philosophy
- Postdoc at Texas A&M University
Kayla Goforth
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Postdoc at Texas A&M University
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My research is focused on the sensory systems and migrations of sea turtles. Currently, I'm working on research involving how sea turtles learn different habitats. Previous work involved studying the response of loggerhead turtles to plastic odors, and the effect of carbon dioxide on sea turtle nest microenvironments.
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Growing evidence indicates that migratory animals exploit the magnetic field of the Earth for navigation, both as a compass to determine direction and as a map to determine geographical position¹. It has long been proposed that, to navigate using a magnetic map, animals must learn the magnetic coordinates of the destination2,3, yet the pivotal hypo...
Goforth, K.M. and Carthy, R.R., 2022. Tidally-driven gas exchanges in beaches: Implications for sea turtle nest success. Journal of Coastal Research, 38(3), 523537. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The success of individual sea turtle nests is influenced by nest location on the beach and the resulting incubation environment. Several abiotic...
In addition to providing animals with a source of directional or ‘compass’ information, Earth’s magnetic field also provides a potential source of positional or ‘map’ information that animals might exploit to assess location. In less than a generation, the idea that animals use Earth’s magnetic field as a kind of map has gone from a contentious hyp...
Pfaller et al. report that sea turtles respond to odors from biofouled plastic debris with the same behavior that is elicited by food odors, providing a possible unifying explanation for why sea turtles interact with marine plastic.
