Does anyone know the rules on this?

I presume the recipes would work just as well with a substitute meat, but they do specifically mention green turtles.

http://recipes.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Green_Sea_Turtle_In_Chafing-dish_Recipe

http://recipes.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Green_Turtle_Soup_Recipe

Found the following in the websites Terms of Service. Could they be considered to be inciting illegal action by posting the recipes?

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http://www.newschannel5.tv/2008/7/15/994560/Driver-Who-Killed-Sea-Turtle-Identified

Nests: 61

and False Crawls: 74

and Hatched Nests: 0 (still early in the season yet)

There are however a few other interesting stats they are keeping track of.

Tailless racoons: 1

Intern Traps: 13 (sand pits left behind by inconsiderate beach-goers, some of which the interns have fallen in while patrolling at night)

Naked people: 2 (I'll have to get the story on that one)

Tags: 2 (I presume this refers to the two satellite tags we have deployed so far this season)

And finally...

# of times Kat has catapulted out of golf cart: 2 (Kat being one of the interns)

Merlin Mann

Quite a few years ago now, when I was first setting up STAT and Maptool, I recall being unhappy with the publicly available sea surface temperature (SST) data sets at the time. This was probably some time during 2003.

I was able to get access to GOES SST, which was not publicly accessible at the time. This was an excellent data set for the time, with daily 6km resolution SST images. Unfortunately it was not a global data set, only covering parts of the Atlantic and Pacific (mainly areas of US interest). In any case, I included these data in STAT and Maptool because the quality was relatively good.

All of the global SST data sets that I could find at the time either had too many gaps (eg clouds or lack of satellite coverage) or too much smoothing (eg over-interpolating to fill in the gaps), such that the small scale variations in areas such as the Gulf Stream or the Kuroshio Current would be lost.

See her track here:
http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/?tag_id=80060

And more info here:
http://gstc.blogspot.com/2008/04/bevs-back.html

Zoom in with this super cool track in google maps.

In particular this bit, quoted from a policy paper prepared by Athena Global:

• A direct association exists between pricing and its effects on public access and commercialisation of government agency information. Current pricing problems are having a deleterious effect on the affordability of spatial data in Canada, France, and the United Kingdom;
  
• A direct association exists between the application of intellectual property rights and the degree of public access and commercialisation of government agency information. The greater the restrictions on access, the less successful dissemination programs will be;
  
• Reducing prices and relaxing intellectual property restrictions on government datasets are significant factors improving opportunities for access and commercialization for stakeholders in the geographic information community.

It's impossible to put a value on all the earth observation data that the US government makes freely available. It is one of the undeniably good things they do and it's a shame that other countries do not do the same. Access to European remote sensing data, in particular, is a shambles (CNES Aviso data the notable exception).

Jason, Molly and Tom were kind enough to adopt JaMoTo, and when they received their adoption packet they wore the hats I included in the packet during the show. As seen in the recorded video streams below. Watch to the end and you will get to see them try on the silly hat.

Click play on each of the streams to watch them in sync, but turn the volume down on all but one (otherwise you will get a wicked echo). Thanks to the folks at watchBOL for posting these online.

JaMoTo has been mentioned in a number of BOL episodes and even has her own Twitter feed.

On Nick Jr today.

Arrive at Paris Charles de Gaul Airport with a few hours to to kill before the flight to Libreville and before colleagues arrive. So I pay way too much for internet access and complete final edits to MTN 119.


Brendan and Matthew arrive about threes hours later and we enjoy a quick coffee before boarding the next flight.


Board Air France flight to Libreville, Gabon. Arrive in Libreville. Fight off people wanting to carry our bags at the airport and try to find a taxi to Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Case de Passage.


We get settled in at the Case de Passage and enjoy a nice dinner with some folks from the Zoological Society of London that Brendan met on the plane.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/lifeincoldblood/video.shtml

Photos and videos for this post were taken by myself, Matthew Witt, Angela Formia and Brendan Godley.

I had started to write up the whole trip at once, but the sheer volume of it all is proving daunting. I'd probably never finish if I tried to do it all at once. So, here we go, one day at a time...

Even so, it sounded pretty cool. Imagine being able to monitor sea turtle nesting activity from space? It would finally allow us to get a handle on all of those really out of the way sea turtle nesting sites. For example, I just returned from Gabon, which supposedly hosts the world's largest leatherback sea turtle nesting population. Unfortunately, the agencies and NGOs working there don't have the resources to properly monitor the entire coastline and any population estimates contain some pretty serious extrapolations. So what's the real population size?