Dataset

Bald Head Island 2007: Loggerhead Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

OBIS-SEAMAP Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Original provider: Marine Turtle Research Group Dataset credits: Data provider Marine Turtle Research Group Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Project partner This project is a collaboration among the Marine Turtle Research Group (Brendan Godley and Annette Broderick), Michael Coyne (SEATURTLE.ORG), the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (Wendy Cluse and Matthew Godfrey) and the Bald Head Island Conservancy. Project sponsor or sponsor description This project was funded by a grant from the WAVE Foundation at the Newport Aquarium, Kentucky, and donations from the Bald Head Island Conservancy and 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 through 2006 and made impressive movements north, using waters as far away as New Jersey. All four of the transmitters from 2006 are still transmitting. The transmitters provided us with some interesting, novel and useful data 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.

Citation: Coyne M. 2025. Bald Head Island 2007: 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=227). https://doi.org/10.82144/1f99a386.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 01:00

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_955_1deg

Michael Coyne
seaturtle.org

Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
seaturtle.org

38
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 38
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 38
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 38
100.0%
ON_LAND 15
39.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data