Katia’s transmitter has relayed a few more data points over the past 24 hours. The transmissions indicate that the tag is still attached to Katia and she is behaving normally. Unfortunately these have only been brief messages and no Argos location has been computed. Data show that she is in 21° C water and is Read more about A few more transmissions[…]
After almost ten days of missing data, we finally received a tiny “blip” of data from Katia. During one of the transmission windows yesterday, her tag sent a small packet of data which likely means the tag is still attached to her. The satellite only received a single short transmission and was unable to compute Read more about Finally[…]
We have not received any data from Katia in a few days now. One possible reason for the lack of data may be that she is simply moving too fast. Katia is being tracked with a towed transmitter that is attached via short tether to her peduncle (rear end of her carapace) and this transmitter only Read more about Missing data[…]
Katia has just left the relatively shallow waters of the continental shelf and is now passing over Hydrographers Canyon which drops from about 600 feet deep to well over 6,000 feet deep. This location is where the deep ocean lower nutrient “blue” water meets greenish higher nutrient water found along the continental shelf. This is Read more about Deeper water[…]
Katia continues to head northeast and has now made it past Nantucket, Massachusetts. Since leaving Jupiter Island back in June, Katia has traveled more than 3,000 kilometers and is located approximately 1700 kilometers from Jupiter Island. She is currently located to the north of a warm water eddy that has spun off the Gulf Stream and will Read more about Heading to Canada?[…]
I will admit that we were a bit concerned as there was very little data relayed this past week, but all is well! Over the past few days, Katia has made a big jump to the north east and is now located about 50 kilometers south of Long Island in New York. The transmitter that Katia is carrying Read more about Big jump[…]
On August 25th, Katia began moving north and is now located off Cape May New Jersey. This track is very similar to several turtles we have tracked in the past. A few of these tracks are described in the publication “Internesting and Postnesting Movements and Foraging Habitats of Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) Nesting in Florida”