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

A project of SCDNR/MRD/MRRI.

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"Karen" (named after Karen Holloway-Adkins who assisted with transmitter attachment) is THE FIRST green sea turtle that we've ever satellite tagged and only the 4th of 21 green sea turtle captured in >8000 trawling events conducted in coastal waters across our various studies since 2000 large enough to be considered mature.

Background

"Karen" is an adult (91.5cm SCL, 115 kg) female green sea turtle captured during research trawling conducted by the RV Georgia Bulldog under NMFS Section 10(A)(1)(a) permit 19621 and GADNR Scientific Collection CN21303 on 20 June 2019. "Karen" was captured <10km from where a similar-sized male green sea turtle was captured during research trawling in July 2012.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '4', '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'Z', 'X' 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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