The goal of this project is to assess sea turtle nesting response on different template designs for nourished beaches and how these differ from a "natural beach".
Location
Palm Beach, Martin and Brevard Counties, FL
Summary
GNSS survey data collected at nest/apex, at the primary dune crest, along the turtle crawl path and along cross-shore transect from the waterline to the point where vegetation became impassable.
The cross-shore transects and crawl paths were collected continuously at 10 Hz along each by a person walking with an Ashtech ProFlex GNSS unit mounted in a backpack.
Nest/apex, dune toe, and primary dune crest were marked by pausing for 10 seconds at each of those locations while collecting data along the cross-shore transect.
Post-processed using the nearest base station data from either a Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Florida Permanent Reference Network (FPRN) station or a National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS).
Juno - surveyed on 8 days; 157 emergences; 77 nests; 80 false crawls.
Jupiter - surveyed on 8 days; 159 emergences; 73 nests; 86 false crawls.
Melbourne - surveyed on 10 days; 238 emergences; 69 nests; 169 false crawls.
Info derived
Beach elevation profiles and sea turtle nesting locations.
Comments
This FAN covers multiple surveys for the same project. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-322-FA and 2020-313-FA.
