Gabon Olive Ridley Project (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Sara Maxwell

doi:10.15468/dtgxyt

Gabon Olive Ridley Project (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Citation

Maxwell S. 2021. Gabon Olive Ridley Project. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/523) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=146). https://doi.org/10.15468/dtgxyt accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-20.

Description

Original provider: Seaturtle.org / UC Santa Cruz / MTRG Dataset credits: Data provider Gabon Olive Ridley Program Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Project partner In conjunction with Parc National de Mayumba, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Aventures Sans Frontieres, researchers from seaturtle.org, the University of California - Santa Cruz and the University of Exeter have attached satellite transmitters to female olive ridley turtles nesting at Mayumba National Park, Gabon.
Project sponsor or sponsor description This project is sponsored by the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, Tagging of Pacific Pelagics, Achievements Rewards for College Students, National Science Foundation, Myers Oceanographic Trust, Friends of Long Marine Lab, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, CDELSI, Marine Turtle Research Group and SEATURTLE.ORG Abstract: Advances in tracking technology have created a global understanding of sea turtle at-sea movement and behavior. This combined with efforts to understand the global distribution of human interactions with sea turtles gives the ability to enact global sea turtle conservation. Strikingly missing from this suite of understanding is the olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), particularly Eastern Atlantic populations. Using satellite tags deployed from Gabon, Africa, we aim to determine olive ridley foraging strategies and oceanographic habitat, determine multi-species turtle hotspots, and their interactions with fisheries. This will result in a greater understanding of one of the least-studied species of sea turtle, where this species overlaps with other sea turtle species, and the ability to create effective fishery mitigation leading to comprehensive sea turtle conservation.

Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Purpose

Not available

Sampling Description

Study Extent

NA

Sampling

NA

Method steps

NA

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Lepidochelys olivacea
common name: Olive Ridley rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Oceans

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Sara Maxwell
originator
position: Primary contact
Gabon Olive Ridley Program
email: smaxwell@ucsc.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP
distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

Sara Maxwell
owner
position: Primary contact
Gabon Olive Ridley Program
email: smaxwell@ucsc.edu

Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
originator
seaturtle.org
email: mcoyne@seaturtle.org
homepage: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/

Sara Maxwell
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Gabon Olive Ridley Program
email: smaxwell@ucsc.edu