Georgia Aquarium/DomSeTCO Leatherback's of Dominica (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on Oct 8, 2025 OBIS-SEAMAP

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Description

Original provider: Jake Levenson Dataset credits: Data provider: Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organisation; Originating data center: Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT); Project sponsor or sponsor description: Jake Levenson Abstract: Dominica Sea turtle Conservation Organization, in partnership with the Georgia Aquarium, are working to research and conserve sea turtles in Dominica. A small island in the Caribbean, Dominica has several sea turtle species nesting on it's beaches. Leatherbacks have been the main focus due to poaching on the island of adults and nests. Georgia Aquarium and DomSeTCO support patrollers on the main leatherback nesting beaches and has initiated a sea turtle tour program bringing visitors and locals alike to witness sea turtle nesting events on the island. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 174 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Levenson J. 2025. Georgia Aquarium/DomSeTCO Leatherback's of Dominica. 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=996). https://doi.org/10.82144/d8dc714b.

Rights

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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: d4baf2c5-090d-417b-9c29-d14d762d2ce1.  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/1174 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1174/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1174/eml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=996 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

Jacob Levenson
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization
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 [14.491, -63.221], North East [47.084, -17.971]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2014-05-19 / 2015-05-22

Project Data

No Description available

Title Georgia Aquarium/DomSeTCO Leatherback's of Dominica
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Jacob Levenson
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1174_1deg
Collection Identifier zd_1174_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

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Visit STAT's project page for additional information at http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=996