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Marine Turtle Newsletter 102:24, © 2003
Satellite Tracking on the World Wide Web
SEATURTLE.ORG recently introduced a new satellite tracking resource, in collaboration with the Marine Turtle Research Group and a consortium of conservation organizations and donors, that provides sea turtle researchers with an easy-to-use tool for collecting, managing and sharing their satellite telemetry data in near real-time. The public interface, available on SEATURTLE.ORG at <https://seaturtle.org/tracking/>, currently includes 12 turtles from three projects that have been tagged and are being actively tracked on the web from nesting beaches in the Cayman Islands, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is expected that other projects will join soon. Visitors to the site are able to find background information on each project and turtle and can register to receive daily e-mail updates about the movements of turtles in each of the active projects. All track maps are also updated daily. Behind the scenes is a data management system that takes most of the drudgery out of handling satellite telemetry data by automating data retrieval and archiving from the ARGOS system. A number of data filtering and management tools are in development, including a direct link to SEATURTLE.ORG's Maptool <https://seaturtle.org/maptool/> providing data owners with on-the-fly mapping of their satellite telemetry data. If you are interested in adding a project to the Satellite Tracking resource on SEATURTLE.ORG, or have any questions, comments or suggestions, please contact Michael Coyne <mcoyne@seaturtle.org>.
Where Will Shelby, Myles, and Samia Go? Students, supporters in the community, and others worldwide are following the migrations of these post-nesting green and loggerhead sea turtles from the Cayman Islands. The turtles' positions are updated daily on SEATURTLE.ORG <https://seaturtle.org/tracking/>.