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STRETCH UPDATES - COHORT 3

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    Map: Cohort II Current Locations   Map: Cohort III Current Locations Map: Cohort II and III Combined Fifth Annual Hawaii Pacific University Turtle Workshop STRETCH RESOURCES AND INFORMATION Questions????:  email - mrice@hpa.edu December 15, 2025 Cohort III continues to transmit good locations with two exceptions. Abrejos and Donatello have not reported for 2 days but that is not terribly uncommon.  We will need to wait for a couple of days to see if they will come back on line.  Although the sample size is small and the conditions are different, Cohort I lost 2 loggerheads by day 66 in 2023 (8%) and cohorot II had lost 3 by day 127 in 2024 (~11%).  It seems, based on the previous Cohorts I and II, that we are doig quite well with the members of Cohort III! Cohort III locations as of 12/14/25 (colored dots) is superimposed on temperature contours showing that in temperatures ranging from ~15 to ~20 degrees C. December 12, 202...