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Marine Turtle Newsletter 104:25, © 2004

Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online

ANNOUNCEMENTS
A New Resource Devoted to Tagging Sea Turtles is Now Available on SEATURTLE.ORG:


The tagging section of SEATURTLE.ORG has been divided up into more than a dozen different sections, each focused on a specific topic or issue related to tagging. The particular topics include: metal flipper tags, PIT tags, satellite tags, living tags, data analyses, rewards for tag returns, and more. The web pages give specific information on where to get different kinds of tags and provide advice on how and where to apply them. There is a section on tips and suggestions to help improve tagging efforts, and several researchers have contributed specific advice related to tagging. We encourage researchers to share their practical tips by sending them to (tagging@seaturtle.org).

The site features a bibliography of publications and reports dealing with tagging issues. This downloadable file is updated regularly. If you have papers or publications not included in the bibliography, please send the references to (tagging@seaturtle.org), so we can include them in the next update. The site also hosts the outputs and images from the tagging workshop (Godfrey et al. 2003) held at the 23rd Annual Sea Turtle Symposium in Kuala Lumpur. This includes downloadable versions of the various presentations and handouts.

The new section devoted to tagging of sea turtles goes hand-in-hand with the other resources available on SEATURTLE.ORG, particularly Tagfinder <https://seaturtle.org/tagfinder/>, a searchable database of tag numbers and IDs that have been deployed by a variety of different projects, and the Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool <https://seaturtle.org/tracking/>, an invaluable resource for managing and analyzing data obtained from satellite tags deployed on sea turtles. Please contact Michael Coyne if you would like to have your tag series listed in Tagfinder (tagfinder@seaturtle.org) or would like to make use of the SEATURTLE.ORG satellite tracking data management tools (tracking@seaturtle.org).

The tagging pages are the result of a collaborative effort between Michael Coyne, Matthew Godfrey and Brendan Godley. Your help is requested to improve this resource. Please send all comments and suggestions to (tagging@seaturtle.org). Also, if you have interesting images of tags, tagging and illustrations of any of the aspects covered in the pages, please consider placing them in the SEATURTLE.ORG image library at <https://seaturtle.org/imaglib/>.

GODFREY, M.H., L.M. CAMPBELL, B.J. GODLEY & N.J. PILCHER. 2003. Report from the Tagging Workshop at the 23rd Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Marine Turtle Newsletter 101:35-36.