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Field Activity Details for field activity 10CRE04

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kristen Hart

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Kristen Hart

Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Tag two juvenile sea turtles with accelerometers and collect the unhatched eggs from Loggerhead nests for oil-related NRDA samples

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Key West, FL

End Port/Location: Key West, FL

Start Date: 2010-09-16

End Date: 2010-09-26

Equipment Used: Satellite Tag

Information to be Derived: Animals that moved through zones where acoustic receivers are located, collect biological samples from tagged turtles, deploy satellite tags on turtles to begin to track their daily movements in and around the Tortugas.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Keith Ludwig

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Equipment: R/V Halimeda

Location:

Dry Tortugas National Park, FL and Loggerhead Key

Boundaries
North: 24.64906271 South: 24.41406722 West: -83.034 East: -82.5903587

Platform(s):

photo of Halimeda
Halimeda

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Satellite Tag --- Experiments (biological)
Surveys (biological)

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