21218 - Grupo Tortuguero: Pacific Sea Turtle Tracking

A project of Grupo Tortuguero Tracking Project.

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Background

Paulina was outfitted with a transmitter on the 2nd of March, 2001. She was released after nesting at night on the Colola, Michocan beach in southern Mexico. Paulina is a 78 cm Pacific green turtle (aka black turtle) that was equipped with a transmitter while nesting in Colola, Michoacan (Mexico). The Colola, Michoacan community has been very supportive of this project, and J. Nichols hopes that the researchers can return their generosity with some interesting new information about the turtles that nest in their back yard!

• The presentation of data here does not constitute publication. All data remain copyright of the project partners. Maps or data on this website may not be used or referenced without the explicit written consent of the data owners.
• For more information please visit the project website.
• 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.

SEATURTLE.ORG collaborates with Argos to help scientists and conservationists manage and analyse their valuable animal tracking data.