Non-technical Articles and Videos about Research in Lohmann Lab

Links to Online News Articles and Videos:

  • CNBC (2020) – Sea Turtles are Eating Ocean Plastic Because it Smells Like Food, Study Finds
  • Eos (2020) – Internal Compass Guides Salmon’s Incredible Journey
  • Newsweek (2020) – Sea Turtles Like the Smell of Plastic in the Ocean so Much They Eat It
  • UNC Endeavors (2019) – Sea Turtle Secrets
  • Science Alert (2018) – Scientists Have Found a Fascinating Link Between Magnetic Fields and Turtle Nesting
  • The Two-Way (NPR) (2018) – “Magnetic Fields are a Big Predictor of a Loggerhead Turtle’s Genes”
  • WITN (2018) – Interview with Lewis Naisbett-Jones on Magnetic Navigation by Eels
  • Seattle Times (2018) – “Study: Sea Turtle Genes Show Navigation by Magnetic Fields”
  • New York Times (2018) – “Sea Turtles Use Magnetic Fields to Find Their Birthplace Beach”
  • NPR (2017) – “Eels May Use ‘Magnetic Maps’ As They Slither Across The Ocean”
  • Daily Mail (2017) – “How The Trout  Finds its Way Home: Researchers Pinpoint The Genes”
  • BBC (2015) – “Sea Turtles Find Nesting Sites Using Magnetic Fields”
  • Los Angeles Times (2015) – “Sea Turtle Finds Her Way Back to Birth Beach, but How?”
  • National Geographic (2015) – Video: The Mystery of Mass-Nesting Sea Turtles
  • BBC (2013) – “Sockeye Salmon Sense Magnetic Field of Home”
  • The Economist (2012) – “Marine Biology: Scents and Sensibility”
  • National Science Foundation (2012) – “Questions About Incredible Sea Turtle Migration Answered by Scientists”
  • Audubon Magazine (2012) – “Was the Sea Turtle Rescue Operation in the Gulf a Success”
  • Wired Magazine (2011) – “Navigational Magic of Sea Turtles Explained”
  • Science Nation (National Science Foundation) (2010) – Video: Sea Turtle Positioning System
  • New Scientist (2010) – “Gulf Turtle Evacuees Could Get Lost at Sea”
  • National Geographic (2008) – “Movement Ecology” to Explain Salmon Homing?
  • Wired Science (2008) – “Hacking Salmon’s Mental Compass to Save Endangered Fish”
  • Voice of America News (2008) – “Researchers Propose New Theory of Long-Distance Animal Navigation”
  • National Geographic (2007) – “Glow Sticks May Lure Sea Turtles to Death”
  • ScienceNOW (2004) – “Magnetic Maps Guide Migrating Turtles.” Note: Access requires AAAS member subscription or a ScienceNOW site pass.
  • Science News (2003) – “Homing Lobsters: Fancy Navigation, for an Invertebrate”
  • National Geographic (2003) – “Lobsters Navigate by Magnetism, Study Says”
  • ABC News, USA (2001) – “How Sea Turtles Find Their Way”
  • BBC News, United Kingdom (2001) – “Turtles Steer a Steady Course”
  • CBC News, Canada (2001) – “Sea Turtles are Natural Navigators”
  • National Geographic (2001) – “Magnetic Map Found to Guide Animal Migration”
  • USA Today (2001) – “Sea Turtles Use a Natural Compass to Find Their Way”
  • Why Files (2001) – “Lost ‘n Found, Turtle Style”
  • National Science Foundation Frontiers (1996) – “Footloose on Earth’s Invisible Highways: How Migrating Animals Find Their Way”

Radio Interviews

Selected Magazine and Newspaper Articles

  • “Animal Behaviour: The Lobster Navigators.” Nature 421: 27-28, January 2, 2003.
  • “How the Spiny Lobster Finds Home: Magnetism.” New York Times, January 7, 2003, p. D3.
  • “Animal Magnetism Guides Migration.” Science. 294: 283-284, October 12, 2001.
  • “Magnetic Map Readers” Nature Australia, Winter, 1997, pp. 7-8.
  • “Navigation Satellites Have Rival: the Sea Turtle.” New York Times, March 12, 1996, p. B6.
  • “Internal Compass Guides Sea Turtles.” Science News 148: 31, July 8, 1995.
  • “Sea Turtles Master Migration With Magnetic Memories.” Science. 264: 661-662, April 29, 1994.
  • “How Sea Turtles Navigate.” Scientific American. 266(1): 100-106, January, 1992.