https:\/\/youtu.be\/HZW2MaVuSVk<\/a>\u00a0after it airs tonight in Southern Florida. The program will be distributed to public television stations around the country in November.<\/p>\nA PBS crew spent several days filming Mansfield as she tagged sea turtles with satellite trackers in the ocean this past year. Mansfield\u2019s work shows that turtles are active swimmers, display certain feeding behavior and are not passive drifters as researchers previously believed.<\/p>\n
In March 2014, Mansfield\u2019s field research demonstrated that several long-held assumptions for sea turtles were incorrect, and since then she\u2019s worked with other scientists around the world to test the theory on species of sea turtles. So far it appears all of the turtles studied are active swimmers, not drifters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still so much we don\u2019t know,\u201d Mansfield said. \u201cThat\u2019s why the time period is referred to as the lost years. It\u2019s exciting to be shattering some assumptions. We need to know what the turtles are actually doing if we expect to keep them around for future generations to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF marine biologist Kate Mansfield and her ongoing work with endangered sea turtles is the focus of a PBS episode of \u201cChanging Seas,\u201d which debuts at 8 p.m. today on WPBT2. The show focuses on Mansfield\u2019s breakthrough research tracking and discovering what young sea turtles do after they head to sea. The episode, called \u201cSea Turtles: The Lost Years,\u201d will…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":66877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6,23],"tags":[488,982,11435],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-66876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","category-research","tag-biology","tag-college-of-sciences","tag-kate-mansfield"],"yoast_head":"\n
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