gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:26466 eng UTF8 dataset Southeast Fisheries Science Center (305)361-5761 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA www.sefsc.noaa.gov WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Website Website for this organization information 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST resourceProvider Mcneill, Joanne B Contact by email preferred. pointOfContact 2026-03-04T19:17:17 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Sea turtle population study in the coastal waters of North Carolina from 1988-06-07 to 2015-09-22 (NCEI Accession 0162846) 2017-05-26 publication NOAA/NMFS/EDM 26466 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/26466 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Full Metadata Record View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. information tableDigital Cite as: McNeill, B. Joanne (2017). Sea turtle population study in the coastal waters of North Carolina from 1988-06-07 to 2015-09-22 (NCEI Accession 0162846). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0162846. Accessed [date] This data set contains sea turtle length and weight measurements, sex ratios, species composition, capture and release locations, tagging information, and information on biological samples collected for loggerhead, green, and Kemp's Ridley sea turtle populations in the coastal waters of North Carolina. Sea turtles were double-tagged with Inconel Style 681 tags (National Band and Tag Company, Newport, Kentucky, USA) applied to the trailing edge of each rear flipper. Beginning in 1995, all turtles were additionally tagged with 125 kHz unencrypted Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags (Destron-Fearing Corp., South St. Paul, Minnesota, USA), injected subcutaneously above the second-most proximal scale of the trailing margin of the left front flipper to ensure identification of the turtle in the event that both Inconel tags were lost. SCL and CCL (notch-to-tip and notch-to-notch) along with SCW and CCW were measured and recorded to the nearest 0.1 cm. Blood samples were collected from the dorsal cervical sinus of the turtle, and skin samples were collected from the trailing edge of the rear flippers. Scute scrapings were collected from the edge of the carapace to characterize loggerhead, green, and Kemp's ridley sea turtle populations that inhabitat inshore and nearshore waters of North Carolina completed Mcneill, Joanne B Contact by email preferred. pointOfContact Mcneill, Joanne B Contact by email preferred. custodian DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 17.0 EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > REPTILES theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 17.0 Caretta caretta Chelonia mydas Lepidochelys kempii theme World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 20.8 TRAWL instrument Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords 17.2 0162846 162846 theme NCEI Accession ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - MASS BIOLOGICAL DATA Reptiles theme NODC DATA TYPES Coastal Waters Of North Carolina Pamlico Sound place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS calipers scale trawl instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS Kemp's Ridley foraging ecology green turtle loggerhead sea turtles tagging theme 1988-present temporal DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2017-04-24 publication 8.5 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian Beaufort Protected Resources Sea Turtles project InPort otherRestrictions Cite As: Southeast Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: Sea turtle population study in the coastal waters of North Carolina from 1988-06-07 to 2015-09-22 (NCEI Accession 0162846) [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/26466. NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None otherRestrictions Use Constraints: please cite appropriately unclassified NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA/NMFS/EDM 26466 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/sefsc/dmp/pdf/26466.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. information crossReference eng; US oceans -76.6 -75.7 34.7 36.6 Atlantic Ocean, U.S. South | Currentness: Ground Condition 1988 false eng false Data Table pop_survey_tagging_data.csv 2021-04-29 publication pop_survey_tagging_data_Metadata.csv 2022-04-19 publication NCEI Archived Data Accession GTAR NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information distributor https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/archive-management-system/OAS/bin/prd/jquery/accession/download/162846 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link 162846.1.1.tar.gz Landing Page to dowload data download dataset Field Precision SCL and CCL (notch-to-tip and notch-to-notch) along with SCW and CCW were measured and recorded to the nearest 0.1 cm. We double-tagged sea turtles with Inconel Style 681 tags (National Band and Tag Company, Newport, Kentucky, USA) applied to the trailing edge of each rear flipper. Beginning in 1995, we additionally tagged all turtles with 125 kHz unencrypted Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags (Destron-Fearing Corp., South St. Paul, Minnesota, USA), injectedsubcutaneously above the second-most proximal scale of the trailing margin of the left front flipper to ensure identification of the turtle in the event that both Inconel tags were lost.We measured SCL (notch-to-tip and notch-to-notch) and SCW, and CCL (notch-to-tip and notch-to-notch) and CCW, and recorded measurements to the nearest 0.1 cm. We collected blood samples from the dorsal cervical sinus of the turtle, and skin samples from the trailing edge of the rear flippers. Scute scrapings were collected from the edge of the carapace. Water temperature was collected. Mcneill, Joanne B processor otherRestrictions otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None | Use Constraints: Please cite appropriately