SURF CITY, NC (WWAY) — A local researcher is working to unlock the secrets of one of the world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtles. Jamie Clark, a third-year Ph.D. student at UNCW, is working with NOAA researchers to develop new tools to estimate the age of living Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. “It takes a long time to estimate those ages of deceased turtles, and so we want to estimate the age of living turtles with more real-time assessment,…
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