Griffin Patterson
Core Bio
Current event 10
May 1st 2019
Singh, Maanvi. “Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific.” Science News, 26 Apr. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/endangered-green-sea-turtles-may-be-making-comeback-us-pacific.
For current event 10 I decided to read “Endangered green sea turtles may be making a comeback in the U.S. Pacific” by Mannavi Singh. The author begins the article by stating that the “Beleaguered populations of green sea turtles living in and around Hawaii and American Pacific island territories are increasing in number”. These sea turtles have been non existent in Hawaii and American Pacific island territories and now there population is increasing 8 percent per year. The author even says in the article” The number of green sea turtles spotted around Hawaii increased by an average of 8 percent each year, the team reports April 24 in PLOS ONE. Around American Samoa and the Mariana Islands, the turtles’ numbers increased by an average of 4 percent per year”. As you can see the number of so called “endangered” sea turtles are actually gaining populations in many places around the world. The number of sea turtles has been increasing the last two decades and we didn't even now. The author say in the article “ The number of green sea turtles nesting in Hawaii and some Pacific island regions has been slowly increasing over the last two decades. But until now, scientists have had little information on how hatchlings fare once they leave their sandy cradles and venture out into the ocean”.
This article is extremely relevant to society because we thought these rules were endangered but they are actually slowly increasing in population. These turtles are relevant in society because they clearly play important roles in marine ecosystems. ... Whether by grazing on sea grass, controlling sponge distribution, feasting on jellyfish, transporting nutrients or supporting other marine life, sea turtles play vital roles in maintaining the health of the oceans. We overall need these turtles because they balance the marine ecosystem. If the sea turtles where to go extinct it would cause declines in all the species whose survival depends on healthy sea grass beds and coral reefs. That means that many marine species that humans harvest would be lost. As you can see, if sea turtles where to go extinct the marine ecosystem would be very off balance.
I think Mannavi Singh did a excellent job writing this article. the author was able to explain the importance of the sea turtles but also explain the growth in population of these animals. The author also did a great job explaining her point and supplying facts and data about the sea turtles growth. As this article was written well well, there is still room for improvement. There could have been some outside information from the people in the water with the turtles. If we had information from the people experiencing face to face action with the turtles more data could be created. Although, there was room for improvement this was a very well written article and I enjoyed reading it.
Tenzing Pixley
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Current Event 11
Wednesday, March 11th, 2019
Patterson, Griffin. “Bronxville HS Core Biology.” Bronxville HS Core Biology, 1 Jan. 1970,
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For my eleventh current event, I decided to comment on Griffin Patterson’s review of the article Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific by Maanvi Singh of the Science News digital newsgroup. The article centers on how once dwindling populations of Green Sea Turtles have been steadily increasing around the Hawaiian islands. You did a great job with giving a rundown of what the article was about by breaking it up into several different sections, each focusing on an aspect of the article. For example, you started by bringing up the issue at hand, then delved into various opinions on the topic, from researchers themselves. Also, by including statistics from the article that back up scientist’s claims, it helped to make your argument clearer.
Although your review clearly contained substance, there were one or two aspects it lacked. The first being how you only wrote about the what, not the how. What I mean is that you only presented that sea turtle populations were increasing, but you didn’t explore why this is occuring. Not only this, but there were some grammatical errors which did inherently hinder the flow of your report as a whole.
Overall, you did a fine job with reviewing the article you selected. The topics which you explored were consistent throughout the entire essay, but lacked one or two aspects which hindered the flow of it as a reader.
Will Grant 05/08/2019
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Singh, Maanvi. “Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific.” Science News, 26 Apr. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/endangered-green-sea-turtles-may-be-making-comeback-us-pacific.
After reading Griffin’s review of Maanvi Singh’s, “ Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific.” I found that Griffin did a great job in describing the main idea of the article he reviewed. He makes sure the reader realizes why the comeback of the sea turtles is so important. The second thing Griffin does well is his suggestion of improvement for the author. His suggestion on hands on divers being an outside source was very interesting. The third of many things He did well was his use of quotes and statistics in his review.
There are two things though that Griffin needs to improve on. The first is his grammar and spelling. There are some places in his review that need editing. I would suggest reading it over. The second thing He needs to improve on is his descriptions of jobs and people. It would have been better to know some things.
One crazy thing about this article is that the population of sea turtles will increase by 8%. This is so important as the sea turtles were going extinct due to human pollution.
Chris Aherne
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Current event
5-16-19
Singh, Maanvi. “Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific.” Science News, 26 Apr. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/endangered-green-sea-turtles-may-be-making-comeback-us-pacific.
Griffins review of the article “Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific” by Maanvi Singh was a good read. One thing that he did very well was give a good background as to what we are reading. He set the tone for the review very well. Secondly, he stayed true to the article by including many quotes. Which also served as great sources of information for the reader to reference. Lastly, I found that Griffin did a great job of critiquing the article. He gave helpful yet constructive criticism to the author that would have helped better the article as a whole.
Although His review of the article was good, there was room for improvement. Firstly, I noticed that there were a considerable amount of spelling errors. Which makes it seem like he didn't put much effort into it. Secondly, I found that his article was not nearly detailed enough. He has some good contextualization, but he was definitely missing some major parts of the article.
Overall, I found that his review was good. He did a lot of things very well, and some things not so well. I chose this review because it seemed like a very relevant topic to today's society. It really changed my outlook on pollution, and how we as humans have to do better.
Ava Chiang
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Biology Odd / C
Current Event Comment 11
Singh, Maanvi. “Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific.” Science News, 26 Apr. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/endangered-green-sea-turtles-may-be-making-comeback-us-pacific.
Griffin’s review of the article “Endangered Green Sea Turtles May Be Making a Comeback in the U.S. Pacific” by Maanvi Singh was an interesting read. I like how he incorporated many quotes, had a clear summary, and included multiple example for the relevance of this article. A quote he used is “Beleaguered populations of green sea turtles living in and around Hawaii and American Pacific island territories are increasing in number,” which captures the importance of this article. His summary was concise and to the point, and by incorporating quotes and data, he made it credible. My favorite part of his review is when he said that sea turtles are vital for maintaining marine ecosystems and listed several examples (grazing on seagrass, controlling sponge distribution, feasting on jellyfish, etc.). This shows that Griffin is really interested in this subject and is passionate about it.
Though I liked Griffin’s review there are still minor errors that can be improved. His use of quotes is one of my favorite aspects of his review but I feel like he used too many in his summary. I feel like a lot of the same information can be paraphrased or said in his own words and I would love to see more of that. Another thing is that though the example Griffin gave for the relevance of the article is a good one, he was a bit repetitive in his sentences. For example; he kept saying how sea turtles are crucial to maintaining marine ecosystems and how without sea turtles other ocean life would suffer. This is a great example but I wish he would expand the subject a little more and include examples of ways other species can be affected.
Overall I had a great learning experience and great impression. I picked this review because I used to want to be a marine biologist when I was little and I continue to have an interest in marine biology. It's no secret that sea turtles are one of the most endangered species on Earth due to pollution so the title intrigued me. From this article I reinforced information that I’ve learned before, and it made me respect the effect that different species have on the environment.