Lauren

North Carolina Long-Term Sea Turtle Monitoring Project

A project of Seaturtle.org/NCWRC/DUML.

click map for full-size version Lauren (Loggerhead) is 5 km E of the coast of United States and 174 km from Norfolk

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Species: Loggerhead
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Release Date: 2012-07-04 03:00:00
Release Location: North Topsail Beach
Last Location: 2012-09-22 13:50:30

Adoptive Parents:
Lori & Mandolyn Mullins
Julie Berger
Peggy McDaniel
Cori Hutslar
Megan Verne
Shannon Guffey

Background

Lauren is an adult, female loggerhead sea turtle that nested on Topsail Island North Carolina. Before the satellite transmitter was attached she had just laid a nest under a set of stairs leading to a private house on the beach. Ninety-two eggs were relocated to a safer location. Lauren had a carapace length of 97 cm.

Lauren was named for a member of the family that found her nesting, who were vacationing on the island from Ohio.