Wreck Rock Turtle Care - satellite tracking

Data provider
Aubrey Strydom
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
Aubrey Strydom (Satellite tracking & T1 - the ATV)
Lightforce (The light bars on T1)
Tom Garrett (Volunteer fox control)
TurtleCare Volunteers Queensland Inc.
Burnett Mary Regional Group for Natural Resource Management.
Queensland Parks & Wildlife, Deepwater National Park
Queensland Turtle Conservation Research Program: Aquatic Threatened Species Unit, (Department of Environment & Science)
Wildlife Computers, Redmond, Washington
CLS ARGOS

Volunteers Neville and Bevlyn McLachlan initiated and have been running the Wreck Rock Turtle Care program for 45 years, with help from their family and friends.
Nev commenced monitoring back in the early 1970's and Bev joined him in 1977. They have not missed a nesting season since then.
Each season they spend December and January camped in the Deepwater National Park.
They spend their nights patrolling the beach on quad bikes and ATVs, and the next morning place mesh on the newly laid clutches to protect them from fox and goanna predation.

TurtleCare Volunteers Queensland Inc is an incorportated association established for the purpose of fostering conservation through study and enjoyment of turtles. Through this organization they have the ability to raise funds to further the study that operates in conjunction with the Turtle Research Program, centered around the Mon Repos Rookery, which is a part of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.
The volunteers at Wreck Rock spend all night patrolling the 22km beach, tagging adult turtles, monitoring their nesting and the hatching of newborn turtles and trying to keep the foxes and goannas (monitor lizards) from destroying the nests during their 8 week incubation period.
Tom Garrett and Rusty, his fox sniffing dog, volunteer a month at Deepwater National Park each season targeting fox dens.

A special feature of this beach is that 4 species of turtles have been recorded nesting here. Loggerheads, greens, and flatbacks frequently nest in this area, and until the mid 1990's it was the last known nesting site in Queensland for the rare and huge leatherback turtle.

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Overview

Attributes are defined by seaturtle.org.

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downloadable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission.

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
sort	Internal use
uid	Unique ID assigned by STAT
prognum	Program number
tag_id	PTT ID
utc	Date and time in UTC
lc	Location class
iq	Quality indicator
lat1	Latitude in decimal degrees
dir1	Dir 1
lon1	Longitude in decimal degrees
dir2	Dir 2
lat2
dir3	Dir 3
lon2
dir4	Dir 4
nb_mes	Number of messages received
big_nb_mes
best_level	Best signal strength in dB
pass_duration	Pass duration in seconds
nopc	Number Of Plausibility Checks successful (from 0-4)
calcul_freq	Calculated frequency
altitude	Altitude used for location calculation
sensors	Sensors
species	Species name
tsn	ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
timestamp	Numeric timestamp
project_id	STAT Project ID
lc_filter	Parameters to location filtering
speed_filter	Parameters to speed filtering
distance_filter	Parameters to distance filtering
topo_filter	Parameters to topo filtering
time_filter	Parameters to time filtering
angle_filter	Parameters to angle filtering
life_stage	Life stage of the animal
gender	Gender of the animal
wetdry	Wet or dry
wetdry_filter	Parameters to Wet or dry filterint
obs_datetime	Date and time (local time zone)
timezone_h	Time difference from UTC
dataset_id	Dataset ID by OBIS-SEAMAP