Dylan - Georgia Sea Turtle Center and Georgia Aquarium Monitoring of Released Turtles

A project of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.

Static Map | Zoom Map |

Subscribe to Project Updates

 

Dylan was released on June 30, 2008 after being raised entirely in artificial habitats for 10 years. She is the first captive loggerhead sea turtle known to be satellite tagged and released after this length of time in captivity. She has traveled quite a bit and seems to favor the Gulf of Mexico at this time!

Background

Dylan was rescued as a "straggler hatchling" (one which did not emerge from the nest successfully with most of the hatchlings in the nest) on August 26, 1998. She was raised in various zoological facilities including the Tidelands Nature center on Jekyll Island, Coastal Encounters on St. Simons Island, and the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Her final stop before returning to her natural environment was the newly created Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island where she received behavioral training to identify and capture natural prey items.

• The presentation of data here does not constitute publication. All data remain copyright of the project partners. Maps or data on this website may not be used or referenced without the explicit written consent of the data owners.
• For more information please visit the project website.
• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'.
• The static maps also shows locations of class 'Z' as small black circles which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO Digital Atlas published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of the IOC and IHO, 2003, and the ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations published by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
• Sea surface temperature is derived from NASA's MODIS 8-Day Sea Surface Temperature data.

6883338