Bangladesh Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project-Marinelife Alliance (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/580
Publication date:
7 October 2025
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OBIS-SEAMAP
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CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Original provider: Sea Turtle Project-Bangladesh/Marinelife Alliance Dataset credits: Data provider Satellite Tracking Project-Marinelife Alliance Originating data center <a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/' target='_blank'>Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a> Abstract: Marinelife Alliance, conservation and research organization working for marine life particularly on sea turtle, cetacean, coral reefs and water birds along the coast and marine waters of Bangladesh. As part of sea turtle research we started satellite tracking on sea turtle to explore their critical offshore biological information needed to apply the conservation measures to save them. All sea turtle are endangered throughout the world including Bangladesh. Most of the offshore scientific information is unknown to us about this rare animal and each year thousands of sea turtles die due to bycatch in Bangladesh marine waters. Sea turtles are highly migratory and share international waters including many countries maritime territory that increases their chance of being caught by various type of fishing nets spread over the vast marine waters. Bangladesh is signatory of the regional and international conventions and treaties to save the endangered sea turtle. To save these global flagship species we need to uncover their migratory routes through which they come to breed and lay eggs in our long sandy beaches each winter, the coastal habitat they use during nesting season and pathways to long distance migrations at post nesting period. To understand this critical information we are going to set Satellite transmitters on olive ridley and green turtle following recognized scientific methods and protocols developed by pioneering sea turtle scientists throughout the world. This satellite tracking on sea turtle is first time in Bangladesh. This will reveal migratory routes of our sea turtle, depth they dive with temperature, nesting intervals and foraging habitat they use. This uncover will tremendously help in national sea turtle conservation efforts. The results will be used by large number of academics and students in the country and Government Department like Department of Forest, Department of Environment, Department of Fisheries, Bangladesh Coast Guard and Navy. We specially encourage your participation and cooperation to accomplish our efforts and fulfill the goal to save sea turtle in our marine waters. 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 159 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:

Islam Z. 2025. Bangladesh Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project-Marinelife Alliance. 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=487). https://doi.org/10.82144/85b402ce.

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: 69acad6f-26e6-4dcc-86b2-9d0336301048.  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/580 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/580/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/580/eml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=487 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

Zahirul Islam
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Bangladesh Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project-Marinelife Alliance
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 [4.878, 48.841], North East [22.359, 106.972]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle), Lepidochelys olivacea (Olive ridley)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2010-04-11 / 2017-05-23

Project Data

No Description available

Title Bangladesh Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project-Marinelife Alliance
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Zahirul Islam
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_580_1deg
Collection Identifier zd_580_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