101140 (UUJ426) - Padre Island National Seashore Kemp's Ridley Tracking Program-2011
A project of Padre Island National Seashore Kemp's Ridley Tracking Program.
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101140 (UUJ426)-NRDA (Kemp's Ridley) is 51 km S of the coast of United States and 76 km from Port Arthur
Background
This adult female Kemp's ridley nested at Padre Island National Seashore on 23 April 2011.
This turtle was outfitted with a Sirtrack KiwiSat 101 satellite transmitter by the National Park Service at Padre Island National Seashore.
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- This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
- This maps also shows locations of class 'Z' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
- Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
- Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
- Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.
