The rarest and most endangered sea turtle in the world, the Kemp’s ridley was discovered nesting on the beach of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., May 14 and again on May 28.
Angy Chambers, 45th Civil Engineer Squadron biological scientist, found the first nest on the beach during the morning sea turtle survey. Chambers and Martha Carroll, another biological scientist from the 45 CES, were the first ever to document a Kemp’s ridley nest found at CCAFS. They marked and screened the nest and took photos and videos of the female sea turtle crawling up the beach, depositing her eggs and returning to the ocean.
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