Unchecked climate change will likely almost completely wipe out the eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtle by the end of the century, according to researchers at GFDL and Princeton University.
Princeton researchers collaborate closely with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), located about three miles from the University’s main campus at Princeton’s Forrestal Campus. GFDL is a leading research center in the development and use of mathematical models and computer simulations to improve our understanding and prediction of the behavior of the atmosphere, ocean and climate.
GFDL efforts include hurricane research and prediction, seasonal forecasting, and understanding and projecting climate change.
In the July 2012 issue of Nature Climate Change, Vincent Saba, a research fishery biologist with NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service based at GFDL and a visiting research collaborator in Princeton’s Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and colleagues reported that unchecked climate change will likely almost completely wipe out the eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtle by the end of the century.
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