Mahon - Distribution of green sea turtles in the South Atlantic Bight

A project of SCDNR/MRD/MRRI.

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“Mahon" is a juvenile (38.7cm SCLmin, 6.9 kg) green sea turtle that stranded at Vilano Beach, FL on 10 March 2021. The turtle was debilitated and triaged at the Whitney Lab Sea Turtle Hospital for 24 hours and then sent to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Jekyll Island, GA for further care. While at the GSTC, "Mahon" exhibited signs of neurological issues and experienced acute onset anemia. Following seven months of excellent attentive care, "Mahon" was released off Jekyll Island 10 October 2021. We're excited to get a better handle on the seasonal foraging grounds of this very fortunate sea turtle!

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '4', '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 NOAA's GOES Daily Sea Surface Temperature data.

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