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Found 30 datasets matching "EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > REPTILES > TURTLES > SEA TURTLES".

#1 Federal
Testing effectiveness of visual bycatch reduction technology to reduce sea turtle bycatch in a coastal net fishery
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2024-10-30T00:00:00.000+00:00
Pound nets are a passive fishing gear used globally that can lead to frequent bycatch of sea turtles and other protected marine megafauna. However, despite their global ubiquity and high bycatch,...
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Search relevance: 123.79 | Views last month: 0
#2 Federal
Leatherback sea turtle age and growth
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
This involves two studies. This first study involves analysis of skeletal growth marks in scleral ossicle bones of 33 leatherback sea turtles stranded dead along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico...
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Search relevance: 119.46 | Views last month: 0
#3 Federal
Platform Removal Observer Program Databases from 1987-present
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2025-11-03T18:06:24.000+00:00
Platform Removal Observer Program Data Underwater explosives are frequently used in the removal of oil and gas platforms. Since 1987, federal regulations required the use of National Marine...
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Search relevance: 118.37 | Views last month: 0
#4 Federal
Adult loggerhead turtle size, age, stage duration
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2016-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
This study involves analysis of skeletal growth marks in humerus bones of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) ranging from hatchling to adult stranded dead along either the US Atlantic coast...
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Search relevance: 118.00 | Views last month: 3
#5 Federal
Monthly morphometric data on captive Kemps ridley sea turtles from 1998-2014
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
The database contains monthly measurements taken on captive reared sea turtles. Measurements include: straight carapace length nuchal notch to carapace tip, straight carapace width maximum...
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Search relevance: 112.18 | Views last month: 0
#6 Federal
Cetacean visual observations using line-transect survey methods onboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter (GU) in the Gulf of Mexico, for the Vessel Surveys for Abundance and Distribution of Marine Mammals and Seabirds project (VSAD survey GU2402) from 2024-06-03 to 2024-08-12 (NCEI Accession 0299731)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2025-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
As part of the Vessel Surveys for Abundance and Distribution of Marine Mammals and Seabirds (VSAD) project, the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) conducted a shipboard survey of the U.S....
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Search relevance: 105.54 | Views last month: 0
#7 Federal
Species Distribution: Green Sea Turtle - Hawaii
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2020-07-13T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains a collection of 13 known point locations of green sea turtles identified through direct human observation via aerial surveys between March and April of 1995. Dr. Joseph...
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Search relevance: 103.69 | Views last month: 1
#8 Federal
Summary of sea turtles rehabilitated at NOAA Galveston 2001-2016
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2001-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
The database contains a summary of the number of sea turtles that have been rehabilitated by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory. Data includes the number of each species rehabilitated and the year in...
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Search relevance: 102.15 | Views last month: 1
#9 Federal
Green sea turtle age, growth, population characteristics (NCEI Accession 0159273)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
Morphology, sex ratio, body condition, disease status, age structure, and growth patterns were characterized for 448 green sea turtles cold stunned in St. Joseph Bay, Florida during January 2010
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Search relevance: 100.12 | Views last month: 0
#10 Federal
Sea Turtle Beaching Probability Index (BPI) in the Northern Gulf of America from 2017-01-01 to present
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2026-01-03T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains the sea turtle beaching probability index (BPI) for the northern Gulf of America region since 2017-01-01. The data files are in CSV and JPEG formats. The daily CSV files...
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Search relevance: 98.25 | Views last month: 0
#11 Federal
Cetacean and sea turtle spatial density model outputs from visual observations using line-transect survey methods aboard NOAA vessel and aircraft platforms in the Gulf of Mexico from 2003-06-12 to 2019-07-31 (NCEI Accession 0256800)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2022-07-29T00:00:00.000+00:00
Based on ship-based and aerial line-transect surveys conducted in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico between 2003 and 2019, the NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) developed spatial...
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Search relevance: 97.93 | Views last month: 0
#12 Federal
Density of Cetaceans and Turtles in the Gulf of Mexico
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2023-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
The goal of this research was to develop Gulf-wide cetacean and sea turtle spatial density models (SDMs) based on line-transect surveys conducted in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Surveys...
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Search relevance: 97.36 | Views last month: 2
#13 Federal
Sea turtle population study in the coastal waters of North Carolina from 1988-06-07 to 2015-09-22 (NCEI Accession 0162846)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2017-05-26T00:00:00.000+00:00
This data set contains sea turtle length and weight measurements, sex ratios, species composition, capture and release locations, tagging information, and information on biological samples...
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Search relevance: 96.22 | Views last month: 0
#14 Federal
Sea Turtle Radio Telemetry Data
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
Radio transmitters attached to sea turtles captured in various fishing gear enabled us to track and measure surfacing time of each turtle. Determining location of each turtle required detection...
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Search relevance: 95.88 | Views last month: 0
#15 Federal
Loggerhead oral cavity morphometry study (NCEI Accession 0164321)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
Standard external morphometrics and internal oral cavity morphometrics data were collected on wild and captive reared loggerhead sea turtles in size classes ranging from 25-95 cm straight...
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Search relevance: 94.55 | Views last month: 0
#16 Federal
Sea Turtle Satellite Telemetry Data in North Atlantic Ocean from 2007-10-16 to 2010-11-26 (NCEI Accession 0159216)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
Sea turtles captured in various fishing gear (pound nets, long haul seines, gill nets) were outfitted with satellite transmitters so that their movements, migratory pathways and foraging behavior...
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Search relevance: 94.27 | Views last month: 0
#17 Federal
Water temperature and depth data from Loggerhead Sea turtle (Caretta caretta) dive behavior before, during, and after Hurricane Irene in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean in August and September 2011 (NCEI Accession 0310451)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2026-01-05T00:00:00.000+00:00
In this study, we analyzed the movements and dive behavior of juvenile and adult-sized loggerhead sea turtles (n = 18) that were foraging in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) as Hurricane Irene moved...
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Search relevance: 92.25 | Views last month: 0
#18 Federal
Sea turtle location data and data products from satellite tags in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean from 2009 to 2024 (NCEI Accession 0304726)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000+00:00
From 2009 to 2024 satellite tags were attached to 250 loggerhead and 55 leatherback sea turtles in the Northwest Atlantic. The tags used the Argos satellite network to record the position of the...
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Search relevance: 89.90 | Views last month: 0
#19 Federal
Summary of recreational hook and line caught sea turtles documented by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2003-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
The database is a summary of sea turtles that are hook and line captured by recreational anglers in the region covered by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory through its work as the local representative...
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Search relevance: 89.86 | Views last month: 0
#20 Federal
Sea turtle acoustic and radio telemetry data in the Atlantic Ocean from 2013-2014 (NCEI Accession 0160089)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2016-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
This data contains acoustic tag readings that were attached to sea turtles that were captured in various fishing gears. These sea turtles were either actively or passively tracked to record...
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Search relevance: 89.71 | Views last month: 0

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