{"id":987610585,"date":"2024-05-21T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.n2c.gr\/ncc-participation-in-the-42nd-international-symposium-on-the-biology-and-conservation-of-sea-turtles\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:10:26","slug":"ncc-participation-in-the-42nd-international-symposium-on-the-biology-and-conservation-of-sea-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/ncc-participation-in-the-42nd-international-symposium-on-the-biology-and-conservation-of-sea-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC participation in the 42nd International Symposium on the Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section preset--group--divi-section--divi-background--default preset--module--divi-section--default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row preset--group--divi-row--divi-background--default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_8_24 et_flex_column_8_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone et_flex_column_24_24_phoneWide et_flex_column_8_24_tabletWide preset--group--divi-column--divi-background--default preset--module--divi-column--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module preset--group--divi-text--divi-background--default preset--module--divi-text--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>NCC participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ists42thailand.org\/\"><sup>42nd<\/sup> International Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation (ISTS)<\/a>, held in Pattaya, Thailand from 24 to 29 March 2024. The conference was attended by over 500 researchers from around 60 different nations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>NCC associate Dr. Alan F. Rees presented a paper on the topic &#8220;<strong><em>Monitoring male turtles from Cypress Bay, the largest hatchery for loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;. The results presented at the Symposium are a subset of data from a larger study being conducted by the NCC as part of the Ecological Baseline Study on the status of important fauna species in the marine area of the Cypress Gulf leased for hydrocarbon extraction. The study is carried out on behalf of HELLENiQ UPSTREAM S.A.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Telemetric monitoring of adult male sea turtles from breeding sites is a poorly studied research topic, as most studies focus on the more easily accessible adult females that come ashore to breed at predictable times and locations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The presentation was warmly received with many researchers showing interest in the results, which led to several discussions outside the official presentation time about the research work carried out by the NCC and the importance of the findings resulting from such innovative activities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":189,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Poster_ISTS42_Turtles_Kyparissia-770x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Poster_ISTS42_Turtles_Kyparissia-770x1024-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/n2c.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Poster_ISTS42_Turtles_Kyparissia-770x1024-1-480x638.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 770px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987610241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987610585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987610585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987610585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987610585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987610241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987610585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987610585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2c.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987610585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}