Morgan - Juvenile Green Turtles in NW Florida II
A project of Florida Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit.
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St. Joseph Bay, northwest Florida, USA
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 Marilyn Loggerhead |
 Jewel Hawksbill |
 Shelly Flatback Turtle |
 Betty Barnacle Flatback Turtle |
Background
Morgan was captured in the southern end of St. Joseph Bay on one of those netting days where the wind and the water dictate your every move, rain too. Dewayne was chosen to carry a transmitter because this turtle is approximately the same size as the average size of juvenile green turtles inhabiting St. Joseph Bay. Our hope is to document Morgan's overwintering behavior and to determine if this turtle leaves St. Josepeh Bay in the fall and moves to warmer water, or instead overwinters in St. Joseph Bay, possibly risking being stranded due to cold stunning episodes that have occured during three out of the past four winters.
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- This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
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- 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.