Nesting Database Bug Fix

The first change of the month is a small bug reported by Mark Dodd and the folks from Jekyll Island, Georgia. One of the reports generated by the Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System was incorrectly giving hatch success and emergence success values of zero in some cases. The report in question is called the Activity Report and allows users to export all of their nesting data to a CSV file. The bug was related to changes I made to the code at the beginning of the 2013 nesting season to add several new fields to meet Florida sea turtle nest reporting requirements. The changes caused one (yes 1!) line of code, a simple counter, to end up in the wrong place and throw off the HS% and ES% calculations. Now fixed :)

Remigration Summary Statistics

Added a new feature to the STNMS that calculates remigration summary statistics based on the genetic ID of each nesting female on beaches participating in the Northern Recovery Unit Loggerhead DNA Project. Basically you can look at any participating beach and see what percentage of the nesting females nested in other years. It is soooo cool all of the amazing things that people will be able to do with this DNA data!