Little is known about how sensitive the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is to human noises.
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are among the most endangered sea turtles on the planet, residing in the highly trafficked eastern and Gulf coasts of North America. Understanding how the noise produced by human activities affects them can help inform conservation efforts. Credit: Instigator/Shanna Stawicki Photography
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2026 — Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are among the most endangered species of sea turtles in the world. They reside along the east and Gulf coasts of North America, alongside some of the world’s most active shipping lanes. While the threats from fishing, pollution, and vessel collisions are well understood, it is less clear how disruptive human-caused noise is to their survival.
In JASA, published on behalf of the Acoustical Society of America by AIP Publishing, researchers from Duke University Marine Laboratory, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and North Carolina State University evaluated the…click to read more
From: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Article: Underwater hearing sensitivity of the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)
DOI: 10.1121/10.0041867