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

A project of SCDNR/MRD/MRRI.

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Background

"Richard" is 48cm (15 kg) green sea turtle that stranded with emaciation on Daytona Beach in April 2020. Through collaboration with the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory Sea Turtle Hospital and the Sea Turtle Conservancy, "Richard" was tagged with a satellite transmitter following successful rehabilitation. "Richard" is a size of sea turtle that is infrequently captured by in-water surveys, so has a high research interest value despite being a sample size (n) of one. The Telonics TAM-4310 transmitter weighs 150 g and represents 1% of body weight, and the frontal area (FA) drag is about 15% which falls within the "acceptable" category (Figure 3c) as noted by Jones et al. (2013).

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
• Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
• Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.

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