2012 Texas Turtle Strandings File

Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Entity (ENT) | ID: 50412 | Published / External
Created: 2017-11-28 | Last Modified: 2024-10-03

Parent: Summary of sea turtle strandings documented by NOAA Galveston 1989-2015
Data Set (DS) | ID: 26881

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* » Title	2012 Texas Turtle Strandings File
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* » Abstract	The NOAA Galveston Laboratory has been raising sea turtles continously in captivity since 1977. As the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network [STSSN] local represenatative for the upper Texas Gulf coast [coast is divided into 4 areas - upper, middle, Padre Island National Seashore and lower], we respond to sea turtle strandings, dead or alive. We document dead sea turtles, conduct a necropsy in an attempt to determine cause of death, collect biological samples if required, and dispose of the carcass. Live turtles are returned to the NOAA Galveston Laboratory where they are cared for in the sea turtle hospital. The NOAA Galveston Laboratory is not mandated to run a sea turtle hospital, but we do, because we have the capability to do so and there are no other local resources with the expertise to treat and house sick and injured sea turtles. Sea turtles receive medical attention from our attending veterinarians and The Houston Zoo, Inc., provides the bulk of those medical services free of charge. Once sea turtles are treated, recovered/rehabilitated and medically cleared, they are released either offshore or into Galveston Bay depending on the species, size and age of the turtle. We try to release sea turtles back into the wild where they would be normally found at that size and maturity. The Gulf of Mexico in Galveston seasonally supports healthy sea turtles from April to October. By November of each year, the coastal waters become too cold to support healthy sea turtles. Sea turtles that strand after October or that are still receiving treatment in October, are usually held over the winter and released the following spring. Occassionally, turtles that require holding over the winter are sent to The Houston Zoo, Inc., Moody Gardens, or Texas A&M University at Galveston for over-wintering.
* Purpose	Record in real time sea turtle strandings on the upper Texas coast in 2012
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Theme Keywords

Thesaurus	Keyword
None	Caretta caretta
None	Chelonia mydas
None	Dermochelys coriacea
None	Eretmochelys imbricata
None	green turtle
None	hawksbill
None	Kemp's ridley
None	leatherback
None	Lepidochelys kempii
None	loggerhead
None	sea turtle
None	sea turtle stranding and salvage network
None	stranding
None	stssn

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None	2012

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None	Gulf of Mexico
None	Texas

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Entity Type	Spreadsheet
Active Version?	Y
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» Description	The database contains records pertaining to all sea turtles recovered by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory as the local representative of the Southeast Fisheries Science Centers Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network STSSN. The data includes morphometrics at the time of stranding, species and condition of the sea turtle at the time of stranding and documentation of tags present. It also contains information on the geographic location of the stranding.
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Attribute Summary

Score	Req'd?	PKey?	» Name	Data Storage Type	Description
100	Yes	No	DATE	Date	Date when sea turtle was reported stranded
100	Yes	No	EVENT	CHARACTER	Means by which sea turtle came ashore
100	Yes	Yes	STRANDING_CODE	CHARACTER	Unique code formed by the first letter of the responders first name, first letter of the responders middle name, first letter of the responders last name followed by the year, month, day and then the consecutive number of turtles recovered by that responder on that given day
100	Yes	No	SPECIES	CHARACTER	Two character species code of stranded sea turtle.
100	Yes	No	STRANDING_LOCATION	CHARACTER	A description of the physical geographic location where the turtle was found
100	Yes	No	COUNTY	CHARACTER	County or parrish in Texas in which sea turtle was recovered
100	Yes	No	LATITUDE_DEGREES_MINUTES	CHARACTER	Geographic position in which the sea turtle was recovered, latitude in degrees and minutes. Hemisphere value of N is included rather than an absolute value provided
100	Yes	No	LONGITUDE_DEGREES_MINUTES	CHARACTER	Geographic position in which the sea turtle was recovered, longitude in degrees and minutes. Hemisphere value of W is included rather than an absolute value provided
100	Yes	No	STRAIGHT_CARAPACE_LENGTH_CM	CHARACTER	Usually the measurement of the sea turtles carapace length taken with calipers from the nuchal notch to the tip of the most posterior carapace scutes. It may also be curved carapace length. In cases where it is curved carapace length , CCL: will be part of the value in this field. A ~ character is also occasionally available as part of the Value
100	Yes	No	CONDITION	CHARACTER	Health status at the time of recovery
100	Yes	No	SEA_TURTLE_STRANDING_AND_SALVAGE_NETWORK_CONDITION_CODE	Character	A coded value from the Sea Turtle Stranding And Salvage Network ranking the state of decomposition or lack there of on a scale from 0-5.
100	Yes	No	ACTION	CHARACTER	Response to report of sea turtle stranding
100	No	No	COMMENTS	CHARACTER	A physical description of the external and internal examination of the sea turtle
100	Yes	No	PARTS_COLLECTED	Character	Indicates If Parts of The Turtle were Collected or comments on the parts of the turtle collected
100	Yes	No	PARTS_SENT	Character	Indicates if the parts of the turtle collected were sent somewhere other than the Galveston Lab.
100	Yes	No	FISHERIES_INTERACTION	Character	Text which comments on if a fisheries action was involved in the turtle stranding. A textual note may

Attribute Details

Attribute Name	DATE
Seq. Order	10
Data Storage Type	Date
Max Length	10
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Date when sea turtle was reported stranded
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Attribute Name	EVENT
Seq. Order	20
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	18
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Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Means by which sea turtle came ashore
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Attribute Name	STRANDING_CODE
Seq. Order	30
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	12
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Required	Yes
Primary Key	Yes
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Status	Active
Description	Unique code formed by the first letter of the responders first name, first letter of the responders middle name, first letter of the responders last name followed by the year, month, day and then the consecutive number of turtles recovered by that responder on that given day
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Derivation	fist letter of the responders first name, first letter of the responders middle name, first letter of the responders last name followed by the year, month, day and then the consecutive number of turtles recovered by that responder on that given day
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Attribute Name	SPECIES
Seq. Order	40
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	2
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Two character species code of stranded sea turtle.
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Display Example	cc
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Allowed Values	CC=Loggerhead CM=Green DC=Leatherback EI = Hawksbill LK = Kemp’s Ridley LO = Olive Ridley UN = Unidentified
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Validation Rules	For purposes of validation/species identification pay no attention to case when looking for allowed values and their meaning.

Attribute Name	STRANDING_LOCATION
Seq. Order	50
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	100
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	A description of the physical geographic location where the turtle was found
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Attribute Name	COUNTY
Seq. Order	60
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	20
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Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	County or parrish in Texas in which sea turtle was recovered
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Null Value	N/A
Null Value Meaning	Not Applicable
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Attribute Name	LATITUDE_DEGREES_MINUTES
Seq. Order	70
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	16
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Scale
Status	Active
Description	Geographic position in which the sea turtle was recovered, latitude in degrees and minutes. Hemisphere value of N is included rather than an absolute value provided
General Data Type
Unit of Measure	Degrees
Case Restriction
Display Example	29° 23.00' N
Format Mask	##° ##.##' N
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Validation Rules	Degrees and minutes values should be a valid degrees and minutes value for latitude

Attribute Name	LONGITUDE_DEGREES_MINUTES
Seq. Order	80
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	16
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Scale
Status	Active
Description	Geographic position in which the sea turtle was recovered, longitude in degrees and minutes. Hemisphere value of W is included rather than an absolute value provided
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Display Example	97° 22.83' W
Format Mask	##° ##.##' W#
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Validation Rules	Degrees and minutes values should be a valid degrees and minutes value for longitude

Attribute Name	STRAIGHT_CARAPACE_LENGTH_CM
Seq. Order	110
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	10
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Usually the measurement of the sea turtles carapace length taken with calipers from the nuchal notch to the tip of the most posterior carapace scutes. It may also be curved carapace length. In cases where it is curved carapace length , CCL: will be part of the value in this field. A ~ character is also occasionally available as part of the Value
General Data Type
Unit of Measure	CM
Case Restriction
Display Example	CCL: 60.9 or 45.6
Format Mask	###.#
Null Value	N/A
Null Value Meaning	Not Available
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Attribute Name	CONDITION
Seq. Order	120
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	10
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Health status at the time of recovery
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Allowed Values	Alive Dead Alive/Died
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Validation Rules	Must be one of the allowed values

Attribute Name	SEA_TURTLE_STRANDING_AND_SALVAGE_NETWORK_CONDITION_CODE
Seq. Order	130
Data Storage Type	Character
Max Length	3
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
Precision
Scale
Status	Active
Description	A coded value from the Sea Turtle Stranding And Salvage Network ranking the state of decomposition or lack there of on a scale from 0-5.
General Data Type
Unit of Measure
Case Restriction
Display Example	0 , 0/1/
Format Mask	# or #/#
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Null Value Meaning
Allowed Values	0 = Alive 1 = Fresh dead 2 = Moderately decomposed 3 = Severely decomposed 4 = Dried carcass 5 = Skeleton, bones only in addition there were a few cases where the value was difficult to determine so it was entered as #/# where each number is a possible value of above
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Validation Rules	Must be an allowed value or the concatenation of them

Attribute Name	ACTION
Seq. Order	140
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	70
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Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Response to report of sea turtle stranding
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Attribute Name	COMMENTS
Seq. Order	150
Data Storage Type	CHARACTER
Max Length	2000
Min Length
Required	No
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	A physical description of the external and internal examination of the sea turtle
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Attribute Name	PARTS_COLLECTED
Seq. Order	160
Data Storage Type	Character
Max Length	60
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Indicates If Parts of The Turtle were Collected or comments on the parts of the turtle collected
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Attribute Name	PARTS_SENT
Seq. Order	170
Data Storage Type	Character
Max Length	3
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
Precision
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Status	Active
Description	Indicates if the parts of the turtle collected were sent somewhere other than the Galveston Lab.
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Allowed Values	Yes No
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Attribute Name	FISHERIES_INTERACTION
Seq. Order	185
Data Storage Type	Character
Max Length	50
Min Length
Required	Yes
Primary Key	No
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Status	Active
Description	Text which comments on if a fisheries action was involved in the turtle stranding. A textual note may
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* » Support Role	Data Steward
* » Date Effective From	1989
Date Effective To
Person	Higgins, Benjamin
Address	4700 Avenue U Galveston, TX 77551
Email Address	ben.higgins@noaa.gov
Phone	409-766-3670
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* » Date Effective From	1989
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Person	Higgins, Benjamin
Address	4700 Avenue U Galveston, TX 77551
Email Address	ben.higgins@noaa.gov
Phone	409-766-3670
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* » Date Effective From	2016
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Person	Baumer, Tim J
Address	4700 Avenue U Galveston, TX 77551
Email Address	tim.baumer@noaa.gov
Phone	409-766-3784
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» Download URL	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0159757/1.1/data/0-data/26881/CSV/STRANDINGS2012/Renamed_Data_Table.csv
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File Name	Renamed_Data_Table.csv
Description	Renamed 2012 Texas Turtle Strandings File
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Catalog Item ID	50412
Metadata Record Created By	Lee M Weinberger
Metadata Record Created	2017-11-28 07:43+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By	SysAdmin InPortAdmin
» Metadata Record Last Modified	2024-10-03 18:16+0000
Metadata Record Published	2021-04-29
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Metadata Workflow State	Published / External
Metadata Last Review Date	2021-04-29
Metadata Review Frequency	1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date	2022-04-29

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