Bald Head Island 2005: Loggerhead Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on Oct 7, 2025 OBIS-SEAMAP
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https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/405
Publication date:
7 October 2025
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Description

Original provider: Marine Turtle Research Group / SEATURTLE.ORG Dataset credits: Data provider Marine Turtle Research Group Originating data center <a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/' target='_blank'>Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a> Project partner This project is a collaboration among the <a href=http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/> Marine Turtle Research Group</a> (Brendan Godley, Annette Broderick, Lucy Hawkes), Michael Coyne (SEATURTLE.ORG and <a href=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/>Duke University</a>)the <a href=http://www.ncwildlife.org/> North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission</a> (Matthew Godfrey) and <a href=http://www.bhic.org/research/stpp.shtml> the Bald Head Island Conservancy</a>. Project sponsor or sponsor description This project was funded by grants from the <a href=http://www.newportaquarium.com/>Newport Aquarium, Kentucky</a>, and the Natural Environmental Research Council as well as donations from <a href=http://www.bhic.org/research/stpp.shtml> the Bald Head Island Conservancy</a>.SEATURTLE.ORG. Abstract: This project aims to find out more about the post nesting migratory movements of loggerhead sea turtles from Bald Head Island, North Carolina. Four nesting females were tracked each in 2003 and 2004 and made impressive movements north, using waters as far away as New Jersey. Two of the transmitters from 2004 are still transmitting. The transmitters provided us with some interesting, novel and useful information about the migratory and foraging behaviour and natural history of the loggerhead sea turtle in this region. This summer's deployments will complement the results from previous years and provide us with a wider insight into North Carolina sea turtle biology. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Coyne M. 2024. Bald Head Island 2005: Loggerhead 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=91). https://doi.org/10.82144/e47e6848.

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: 23bad15b-3e67-46fb-a783-d333369e5da4.  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/405 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/405/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/405/eml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=91 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

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

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [25.075, -81.098], North East [37.132, -69.576]

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 2005-07-22 / 2007-01-16

Project Data

No Description available

Title Bald Head Island 2005: Loggerhead Turtles
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Michael Coyne
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_405_1deg
Collection Identifier zd_405_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