1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 10CRE01

Identifier 10CRE01
Purpose Servicing 7 acoustic receivers, and tag female loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) with satellite tags
Location Dry Tortugas National Park, FL and Loggerhead Key
Info 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.
Platform
Halimeda
Itinerary
Start Key West, FL 2010-05-24
End Key West, FL 2010-06-01
Bounds
West -83.1438
East -82.33217999
North 24.72559292
South 24.34060703
Topic 21
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Hart, Kristen
Crew members
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Keith A Ludwig
Scientist, Staff
Hart, Kristen
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Billy J Reynolds
Specialist, Information
Keith A Ludwig
Specialist, Information
Hart, Kristen
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study
Data type: Surveys (biological)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Satellite tag Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity