Haifa - Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles

A project of Israel's Sea Turtle Rescue Center.

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Background

Haifa is an adult female loggerhead turtle from a population of less than a hundred females that are nesting on the Israeli coastline. Since 2006 it is noticed that the number of loggerhead sea turtles' nests has increased significantly.
The goal of attaching the satellite transmitter is to trace her path along the year and learn more about the sea turtle population in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '4', '3', '2', '1', '0'.
• The static maps also shows locations of class 'A', 'B', 'Z', 'X' 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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