Name: Virginia and Maryland Sea Turtle Research and Conservation Initiative Aerial Survey Sightings, May 2011 through July 2013
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Original provider: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Dataset credits: Virginia Aquarium Foundation - Susan G. Barco & Gwen G. Lockhart Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research & Preservation - Robert A. DiGiovanni Jr. & Allison M. DePerte Abstract: The data provided were collected as part of the the Virginia and Maryland Sea Turtle Research & Conservation Initiative - funded by the National Marine Fisheries Service Species Recovery Grants program No. NA09NMF4720033.

Citation

Barco, S. 2014. Virginia and Maryland Sea Turtle Research and Conservation Initiative Aerial Survey Sightings, May 2011 through July 2013. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/1f7e28c7.

Published

October 08, 2025 at 01:46

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1201

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1201

Contacts

Sue Barco
Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

5,527

total submitted occurrences

5,527

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	5,527		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	5,527		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		5,527	100.0%
ON_LAND		3	0.1%

Virginia and Maryland Sea Turtle Research and Conservation Initiative Aerial Survey Sightings, May 2011 through July 2013

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data