Wreck Rock Turtle Care - satellite tracking (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on Jun 1, 2026 OBIS-SEAMAP

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Description

Original provider: aub.strydom@uqconnect.edu.au Dataset credits: Data provider Aubrey Strydom Originating data center <a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/' target='_blank'>Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a> Project partner Aubrey Strydom (Satellite tracking & T1 - the ATV)<br>Lightforce (The light bars on T1) <br>Tom Garrett (Volunteer fox control)<br>TurtleCare Volunteers Queensland Inc.<br>Burnett Mary Regional Group for Natural Resource Management.<br>Queensland Parks & Wildlife, Deepwater National Park<br>Queensland Turtle Conservation Research Program: Aquatic Threatened Species Unit, (Department of Environment & Science)<br>Wildlife Computers, Redmond, Washington<br>CLS ARGOS Abstract: Volunteers Neville and Bevlyn McLachlan initiated and have been running the Wreck Rock Turtle Care program for 45 years, with help from their family and friends.<br>Nev commenced monitoring back in the early 1970's and Bev joined him in 1977. They have not missed a nesting season since then.<br>Each season they spend December and January camped in the Deepwater National Park.<br>They spend their nights patrolling the beach on quad bikes and ATVs, and the next morning place mesh on the newly laid clutches to protect them from fox and goanna predation.<br><br>TurtleCare Volunteers Queensland Inc is an incorportated association established for the purpose of fostering conservation through study and enjoyment of turtles. Through this organization they have the ability to raise funds to further the study that operates in conjunction with the Turtle Research Program, centered around the Mon Repos Rookery, which is a part of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.<br>The volunteers at Wreck Rock spend all night patrolling the 22km beach, tagging adult turtles, monitoring their nesting and the hatching of newborn turtles and trying to keep the foxes and goannas (monitor lizards) from destroying the nests during their 8 week incubation period.<br>Tom Garrett and Rusty, his fox sniffing dog, volunteer a month at Deepwater National Park each season targeting fox dens. <br><br>A special feature of this beach is that 4 species of turtles have been recorded nesting here. Loggerheads, greens, and flatbacks frequently nest in this area, and until the mid 1990's it was the last known nesting site in Queensland for the rare and huge leatherback turtle. <br> This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Strydom A. 2024. Wreck Rock Turtle Care - satellite tracking. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1381). https://doi.org/10.82144/10418b3d.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e10789ed-b8cb-4c6a-9b29-aa777abe3d07.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Marine Biology; Telemetry; Tagged animal; Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2178 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2178/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2178/eml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1381 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

Aubrey Strydom
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [-27.563, 143.298], North East [-9.78, 153.572]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2021-12-21 / 2023-05-13

Project Data

No Description available

Title Wreck Rock Turtle Care - satellite tracking
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Aubrey Strydom
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_2178_1deg
Collection Identifier zd_2178_1deg
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Coyne, M. S., and B. J. Godley. 2005. Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT): an integrated system for archiving, analyzing and mapping animal tracking data. Marine Ecology Progress Series: Vol. 301: 1-7. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v301/meps301001