Help from the Sanibel-based Hammerhead Technology has enabled the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation to launch a website that tracks satellite-tagged sea turtles.
The site's eventual research goal is to learn more about how water temperature impacts their migration routes and foraging behavior.
“A lot of the research on sea turtles is conducted while they’re nesting because they’re much easier to access on beaches, but since they spend most of their lives at sea, there is still so much we don’t know,” said SCCF Coastal Wildlife Director Kelly Sloan. “Satellite tags provide location data for the turtles even when they aren’t observed again on the nesting beach, which allows us to track their movements at sea.”
SCCF funded the cost of the satellite tags through fundraising at Nest Fest, and Hammerhead generously donated the time to create the website.
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