Summary of sea turtle strandings documented by NOAA Galveston 1989-2015
The database contains records pertaining to all sea turtles recovered by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory as the local representative of the Southeast Fisheries Science Centers Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network STSSN. The data includes morphometrics at the time of stranding, species and condition of the sea turtle at the time of stranding and documentation of tags present. It also contains information on the geographic location of the stranding.
Complete Metadata
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|---|---|
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|
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|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:26881 |
| issued | 1989-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
[
"0157625",
"157625",
"ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - BEHAVIOR",
"ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - CAUSE OF DEATH",
"Coastart Waters Of Texas",
"Gulf of Mexico",
"calipers",
"Caretta caretta",
"Chelonia mydas",
"Dermochelys coriacea",
"Eretmochelys imbricata",
"Kemp's ridley",
"Lepidochelys kempii",
"green turtle",
"hawksbill",
"leatherback",
"loggerhead",
"sea turtle",
"sea turtle stranding and salvage network",
"stranding",
"1989-2015",
"DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"Galveston Historical Turtle Projects"
]
|
| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/26881 |
| language |
[]
|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{
"name": "Southeast Fisheries Science Center",
"@type": "org:Organization"
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|
| references |
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"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/sefsc/dmp/pdf/26881.pdf"
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|
| rights | otherRestrictions, unclassified |
| spatial | -93.838005,28.937322,-95.295206,29.68 |
| temporal | 1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | Summary of sea turtle strandings documented by NOAA Galveston 1989-2015 |
