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To help protect newly hatched baby sea turtles, we designed a tool for sensing activity inside their nests

  • Written by Erin Clabough, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
To help protect newly hatched baby sea turtles, we designed a tool for sensing activity inside their nestsNewly hatched loggerhead sea turtles (_Caterra caretta_) journey from their nest toward the ocean.Omer Kundakci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, I struck up a conversation with a man walking his dog. We were standing next to a turtle nest, which...

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