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National Marine Life Center: Sea Turtle Releases
Citation
Contact: Rogers Williams, Sea
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Description
The National Marine Life Center is an independent, non-profit marine animal hospital and science education center dedicated to rehabilitating for release stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises, and small whales, and to advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health and conservation. Sea turtles are fitted with satellite tags to help evaluate rehabilitation success and to determine their movements once released back into their ocean homes.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, A, North Atlantic, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758), Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880
Geographical coverage
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
31 July 2008 - 28 August 2009
Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880 [WoRMS]
Contributors
National Marine Life Center (NMLC), more, data owner
Rogers Williams, Sea
Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-28
Information last updated: 2012-11-28
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