Description
Original provider: Cayman Islands Department of Environment Dataset credits: Data provider: Marine Turtle Research Group; Originating data center: Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT); Project sponsor or sponsor description: Satellite transmitters and satellite time were generously sponsored by schools, businesses, and community organizations in the Cayman Islands. This project also supported by the UK Government's (<a href=http://www.fco.gov.uk/> Foreign and Commonwealth Office <a/> and <a href=http://www.dfid.gov.uk/> Department for International Development <a/>) <a href=http://www.ukotcf.org/OTEP/>Overseas Territories Environment Programme (OTEP)</a> and <a href=http://www.nerc.ac.uk//>Natural Environment Research Council</a> (NERC). Abstract: When Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands in 1503, he named them Las Tortugas (the turtles). Ferdinand Columbus recounted that the islands were ?full of tortoises, as was all the sea about, insomuch as that they looked like little rocks? The green turtle population was estimated at over 6.5 million turtles at the time of the discovery, and turtle fishing (turtling) came to form the basis of the economy and culture of the Cayman Islands. This historical importance is memorialized in our Coat of Arms and currency, but by the beginning of the 19th century, commercial exploitation had driven the immense green turtle nesting population in the Cayman Islands to the brink of extinction. <br>Wild turtles continue have a central place in the memories and experiences of many of our citizens, but today, only a few dozen nesting sea turtles remain. Where do these endangered greens and loggerheads go after they leave our beaches? With the help of schools and the community, the Cayman Islands Department of Environment and the Marine Turtle Research Group have begun a satellite telemetry project to track our historically and culturally important sea turtles for the first time. 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 59 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Blumenthal J. 2025. Cayman Islands 2004: Loggerhead & Green Turtles. 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=31). https://doi.org/10.82144/719e9cbb.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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: e2ee4b2a-0ec0-41e2-a028-1063cf2a6cde. 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/350 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/350/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/350/eml UTF-8 XML |
| STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=31 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [11.248, -114.121], North East [22.111, -58.273] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2004-06-25 / 2006-05-20 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Cayman Islands 2004: Loggerhead & Green Turtles |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_350_1deg |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_350_1deg |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- 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=31
| Purpose | |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/719e9cbb |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e2ee4b2a-0ec0-41e2-a028-1063cf2a6cde | |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/350 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/d0e5f1d2-75ba-4905-8c54-204e9dc3a425 | |
| e2ee4b2a-0ec0-41e2-a028-1063cf2a6cde | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_350_1deg |