A graduate student from the University of Central Florida disappeared at sea on Thursday, and is thought to have drowned, while attempting to capture and tag a sea turtle, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Boyd Lyon, who was 37, was a member of a research team led by Llewellyn M. Ehrhart, a vertebrate zoologist and professor emeritus at Central Florida who has been studying sea turtles for decades (The Chronicle, August 31, 2001).
August 11, 2006
Sea-Turtle Researcher Vanishes Off Florida Coast
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