20622 - Grupo Tortuguero: Pacific Sea Turtle Tracking

A project of Grupo Tortuguero Tracking Project.

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Background

"Sabina" is a juvenile black turtle that we captured approximately 20 miles offshore Bahia Magdalena in the Pacific. She was release 6 August 1999. The turtle was basking in a mat of algae (Macrocystis) when caught and represents the first pelagic juvenile black turtle tracked by our research group. "Sabina" is named after our good friend who has worked for many years at the Center for Coastal Studies in Puerto San Carlos, BCS.

See issue No. 93 of the Marine Turtle Newsletter for an article about juvenile green turtles basking off of the Baja California coast: https://seaturtle.org/mtn/archives/mtn93/mtn93p10.shtml

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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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