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Home Pages takes you today to the warm shores of the Parque Nacional Las Baulas, Costa Rica, partly to transport you cyberly to sunnier climes and partly to give you an update on IPFW biologist Frank Paladino, the Leatherback sea turtle conservator who was profiled in the Oct. 9, 1998, issue of Home Pages. 
Consider this a turtle diary. Each year, students and faculty from IPFW and Drexel University chronicle the turtles' nesting season. The Leatherbacks are the largest living marine reptiles, and they live almost their entire lives at sea. The only times that they are on land is when the female turtles lay eggs and when hatchlings emerge from the nest and make their way to the ocean. Hurricane Mitch did its share to damage the season; the first hatchlings arrived mid-December, about seven days late because the storm caused the sand to be cooler than usual and slowed down the development process. Read all about it, and see turtle baby pictures, too.
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