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 Lindsay Leatherback |
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TDKJV - Barrow Island Flatback Turtle Tracking 2011-2012
A project of Pendoley Environmental Pty Ltd.
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The Corporate sponsors naming this turtle are TDKJV (Flatback Turtle) a Thiess Decmil Kentz Joint Venture group building the Gorgon Village on Barrow Island.
Background
This turtle was released from Barrow Island. She is one of over 80 flatback turtle tracked by the West Australian Satellite Tracking Project. This is the sixth consecutive year that flatback turtles are being satellite tracked from Barrow Island, Western Australia. This tracking program forms one component of a larger marine turtle research and monitoring program that is being sponsored by Chevron Australian Gorgon project. The program is being carried out by marine turtle biologists from Pendoley Environmental who are also managing a flatback turtle flipper tagging program and a flatback turtle nest success program on Barrow Island and at a reference site on Mundabullanagana station on the mainland.
The satellite tracking results will allow researchers to investigate where the female flatback turtles go between nesting events both within a season and between seasons, what migratory corridors they use when returning to remote foraging grounds and will show us where those foraging grounds are.
- The presentation of data here does not constitute publication. All data remain copyright of the project partners. Maps or data on this website may not be used or referenced without the explicit written consent of the data owners.
- For more information please visit the project website.
- This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
- This maps also shows locations of class 'A' 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.