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.

• 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) '4', '3', '2', '1', '0'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'A', 'B', '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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