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Loggerhead Sea Turtle Project July 1999 |
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J. Nichols, Kazuyoshi Omuta & Naoki Kamezaki
David M. Barron / Photographer Tel. (USA) 508.481.3862 |
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The reason for the Japan trip was a result of research by J. Nichols and his colleagues Antonio Resendiz and Jeff Seminoff. They had proven that the newly hatched loggerhead turtles of Japan make their way across the pacific to Baja where they feed until maturity and then return to Japan in a ~ 10 month journey to nest. The journey back to Japan has been documented using satellite tags attached to loggerhead turtles, which has resulted in real time tracking of the loggerhead transpacific journey. The first of these turtles was 'Rosita and Adelita'. School age children tracked the loggerheads journey using their computers in the classrooms. The course was plotted from the information sent to the satellites from the satellite tags on the turtles back as it made its journey. Below is map of the plotted points from Baja to Japan of one of the tracked turtles, as well as photographs from the Baja research site.
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Transpacific Journey |
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501-30-15 |
501-49-17 |
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501-32-18 |
501-31-13 |
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501-33-11 |
501-34-9 |
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501-38-2 |
501-35-7 |
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501-44-6 |
501-35-11 |
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501-36-1 |
501-36-2 |
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501-31-7 |
501-40-13 |
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Working With Loggerhead Sea Turtle Eggs 501-42-6 |
501-41-15 |
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Working With Loggerhead Sea Turtle Eggs 501-42-5 |
Measuring Nesting Loggerhead Sea Turtle 501-42-3 |
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With Eggs Caretta caretta 501-41-9 |
501-44-1 |
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501-40-1 |
501-43-4 |
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Heading To Water Caretta caretta 501-43-17 |
Heading To Water Caretta caretta 501-43-7 |
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Checking Turtle Tags 501-35-17 |
501-49-13 |
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501-37-8 |
501-38-8 |
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W/ Students 501-39-5 |
501-38-6 |
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501-39-13 |
501-41-15 |
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501-48-2 |
501-48-9 |
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501-44-11 |
501-48-12 |
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501-39-20 |
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