02515cam a2200397 4500 431231597 TxAuBib 20200731120000.0 130207s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012034045 9780547367552 0547367554 (OCoLC)823010635 TxAuBib Swinburne, Stephen R. Sea turtle scientist / by Stephen R. Swinburne. First edition. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014] ©2014. xiv, 65 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 x 29 cm. Scientists in the field Scientists in the field Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63) and index. Prologue: one in a thousand -- Meet the leatherback sea turtle -- Las tortugas : a history of the sea turtle -- The man who hunted sea turtles -- Science is hands-and-knees work -- The journey of the hatchlings -- The mystery of hatchling turtles -- It takes a community to save a sea turtle -- Saving sea turtles. Explores the leatherback sea turtle's natural history and recounts the efforts being made by scientists trying to save them. Dr. Kimberly Stetwart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do: dig a nest in which she will lay eggs that will hatch into part of the next generation of leatherbacks. With only one in a thousand of the eggs for this critically endangered species resulting in an adult sea turtle, the odds are stacked against her and her offspring. Join the renowned author and photographer Steve Swinburne on a journey through history to learn how sea turtles came to be endangered, and what scientists like Kimberly are doing to save them. Middle Grade. Accelerated Reader 7.1. Accelerated Reader AR Middle Grades 7.1 3.0 quiz: 163459. 20200731. A Junior Library Guild selection. Sea turtles Juvenile literature. Leatherback turtle Research Saint Kitts and Nevis Juvenile literature. Scientists in the field. Scientists in the field.