AIMS Geonetwork
Sea Turtles as Tropical Ocean Observers
This was project is a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), the Department of Defence, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science. The tea,m partnered with the Tiwi Islands Marine Rangers and the Tiwi Land Council partnered and the Crocodile Islands Rangers and Milingimbi Outstations Progress Resource Aboriginal Corporation (MOPRA). Traditional Owners of both areas gave consent for the team to work on their sea country and on these culturally important species.
We deployed satellite linked tags on female turtles after they had completed nesting on the beach. Tagged turtles included olive ridley turtles on the Tiwi Islands (in May 2022) and flatback turtles (in Oct 2022) and olive ridley turtles (in May 2023) at the remote Crocodile Islands. The tags track the turtle movements anand collect temperature and salinity data from the ocean as they dive. This information will provide a better understanding of turtle habitats and behaviours around the islands and beyond to inform conservation and management and assist the dDepartment of Defence to understand the oceanography in the little-studied Arafura Sea.
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Identification info
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-10-17T00:00:00
Publisher
Owner
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Credit
- Integrated Marine Observing System
- Status
- On going
Principal investigator
Point of contact
- Temporal resolution
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- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
- Description
- Region 1
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Extent
- Description
- Collective resources start and end dates
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 2022-05-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.
- Access constraints
- Restricted
- Other constraints
- The data was collected under contract between AIMS and another party(s). Specific agreements for access and use of the data shall be negotiated separately. Contact the AIMS Data Centre (adc@aims.gov.au) for further information
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
- Description
- The quantity of dissolved ions (predominantly salt in seawater) expressed on a scale (PSS-78) based on the conductivity ratio of a seawater sample to a standard KCl solution.
Identifier
- Description
- The degree of hotness of the water column expressed against a standard scale. Includes both IPTS-68 and ITS-90 scales.
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 19ff51dc-9750-4d8f-9f5e-4bb36051f107
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Hours of service
- 0800 to 1640 UTC+10: Monday to Friday
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-07-06T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-05-16T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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