Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation Program

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Program Description

Georgia DNR Sea Turtle Conservation ProgramThe Georgia Department of Natural Resources is responsible for managing and protecting sea turtles in the state of Georgia, USA. Georgia DNR's Sea Turtle Conservation Program has several components including management, monitoring, research, and education. More specifically, cooperators locate and protect sea turtle nests (~150 km of coastline), document strandings, perform necropsies on dead strandings, work with the Georgia Sea Turtle Center to provide rehablitation for live strandings, conduct research, provide technical expertise on anthropogenic activities that have the potential to impact sea turtles (i.e., nourishment, dredging), and conduct education and outreach activities.
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Summary What does this mean Activity

DNA Samples Assigned: 3910 (98.8%)
Unique Females: 1091 (analysis incomplete)
Nests: 3956 (3750)
  In Situ: 2795
  Relocated: 1161 (29.3%)
  Inventoried: 3514
  Lost: 242 (6.1%)
  Unknown: 200
  Excluded: 6
False Crawls: 3436

First Nest: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2019-04-26
First Emergence: St. Catherines (Loggerhead) 2019-07-02

Last Nest: Cumberland (Green Turtle) 2019-08-21
Last Emergence: Cumberland (Loggerhead) 2019-10-06

Estimated Eggs to Date: 398987
  Eggs Lost: 9308 (2.3%)
  Hatched Eggs: 258270
  Emerged Hatchlings: 244045
  Mean Incubation Duration (all): 55.9 days
  Mean Clutch Count: 114.6 eggs (Relocated Only)

Mean Hatch Success: 61.8%
Mean Emergence Success: 58.3%
Program Nest Success: 75.3%
Program Beach Success: 53.5%
Significant Nest Losses
Egg Status Egg Losses
Nests Species
SpeciesNestsHS%ES%
Loggerhead395061.858.3
Green Turtle683.380.4

Monthly Beach Report

Beach???AprMayJunJulAugOverall
NFCNFCNFCNFCNFCNFCNFCHS%ES%R%
Blackbeard48000152137246225927890537 440 53.3 50.3 26
Cumberland360102242155053682451641061018 753 68.7 65.3 22.9
Jekyll00006711988144427622199 341 67.3 60.7 21.6
Little Cumberland400042286542241510136 85 53.4 49.8 41.9
Little St. Simons70005345127100494830237 193 57.5 54.7 20.6
Little Tybee000031331114007 28 15.7 15.7 14.2
Ossabaw200001739932426312910232647 466 57.4 54.9 18.5
Sapelo2000533510374434011202 150 61.8 60.3 49
Sea Island100030335142311810114 93 56.2 52.2 42.1
St. Catherines800091120178198707132350 391 64.2 59.6 52.8
St. Simons0000263215006 13 76.4 75.3 33.3
Tybee Island40007999320223 22 71.9 66.8 56.5
Wassaw00001359124224910011437480 461 65.8 61.3 35.4
Total13001010329501944172783073736223956343661.858.329.3

Species Beach Report

BeachLoggerheadGreen TurtleTotal
Blackbeard5370537
Cumberland101261018
Egg Island000
Jekyll1990199
Little Cumberland1360136
Little St. Simons2370237
Little Tybee707
Ossabaw6470647
Raccoon Key000
Sapelo2020202
Sea Island1140114
St. Catherines3500350
St. Simons606
Tybee Island23023
Wassaw4800480
Williamson000
Total395063956