Sea Turtle Stranding Network Reports

The Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network (STSSN) was formally established in 1980 to collect information on and document the stranding of marine turtles along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts. The network encompasses the coastal areas of the eighteen state region

from Maine through Texas, and includes portions of the U.S. Caribbean.

Data are compiled through the efforts of network participants who document marine turtle strandings in their respective areas and contribute those data to the centralized STSSN database.

The publicly available reports from this system provide summary or detailed information about the stranding information for a selected year and other chosen selection criteria.

To provide reports on the stranding of marine turtles that occur on Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.

This is Preliminary data and is subject to change and is not recommended for use in publication and analysis.

public web page

run the reports

Agree to use constraint

Publication or use must credit Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network.

It is reccomended that those who wish data from this contact an appropraite network coordinator for consultation/collaboration

Preliminary data is subject to revision and is not reccomended for publication or analysis

Oracle database

.xls files

State coordinators are highly trained scientists who collect the data

Data doubled checked in data entry

Data is made available as entered

Archiving had not been discussed yet as data is publicly available and is ever changing

Authentication from a firewall protected government server Required To access

Data is supplied from state Sea Turtle Stranding Coordinators.

It is then entered into .xls files