36557 Entity Published / External 26900 Summary of NOAA Galveston rehabilitated sea turtles held temporarily at offsite holding facilities Data Set The database contains a summary of the number of sea turtles that have been rehabilitated by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory and placed at offsite holding facilities awaiting release back into the wild. Monitor the growth of sea turtles rehabilitated by the NOAA Sea Turtle Facility. There were some records in which multiple growth measurements were made over time. In these cases the columns MEASUREMENT_DATE LENGTH_CM WEIGHT_KG Were repeated as extra columns going across a record for a single turtle Spreadsheet Yes The database contains a summary of the number of sea turtles that have been rehabilitated by the NOAA Galveston Laboratory and placed at offsite holding facilities awaiting release back into the wild. 10 STRANDING_IDENTIFICATION_CODE Character 12 No No Active This is usually Unique code formed by using the first initials of the person who discovered the turtle, followed by the year, day, date and consecutive turtle number found by that person on that day. This code can be used to link other strandings tables containing this column. There were two cases in which a name was used instead of a code, because no code was available. 20 SPECIES Character 2 No No Active Two Character Sea Turtle Code. This is the same code found on the STSSN forms. Cc Caretta caretta. The scientific name of the loggerhead sea turtle Dc Dermochelys coriacea. The scientific name of the leatherback sea turtle. Cm Chelonia mydas. The scientific name of the green sea turtle. Ei Eretmochelys imbricata. The scientific name of the hawksbill sea turtle Lk Lepidochelys kempii. The scientific name of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle. LO Lepidochelys olivacea The Scientific Name For Olive Ridley Sea Turtle UN Unkniown Turtle 30 FACILITY Character 24 No No Active The Facility at which the sea turtle was placed 40 COMMENTS Character 300 No No Active Comments on anything out of the normal 50 MEASUREMENT_DATE Number 10 No No Active Date on which the measurement was recorded 60 LENGTH_CM Number 5 No No Active Curved Carapace Length. A measurement of the carapace taken with a soft measuring tape from the nuchal notch to the posterior most point of the carapace 70 WEIGHT_KG Number 5 No No 2 Active Weight in kilograms ##.## Data Steward 2010 Person Higgins, Benjamin ben.higgins@noaa.gov 4700 Avenue U Galveston TX 77551 409-766-3670 Contact by email preferred. Distributor 2017 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NCEI ncei.info@noaa.gov https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. Online Resource Metadata Contact 2010 Person Higgins, Benjamin ben.higgins@noaa.gov 4700 Avenue U Galveston TX 77551 409-766-3670 Contact by email preferred. Point of Contact 2010 Person Baumer, Tim J tim.baumer@noaa.gov 4700 Avenue U Galveston TX 77551 409-766-3784 Contact by email preferred. Principal Investigator 2010 Person Higgins, Benjamin ben.higgins@noaa.gov 4700 Avenue U Galveston TX 77551 409-766-3670 Contact by email preferred. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0157625/2.2/data/0-data/Galveston_Turtle_Program/26900/CSV/Renamed_Data_Table.csv 2017 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 Rename_Data_Table.csv Uncompressed Not Chked gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:36557 David Huddleston 2017-01-30T15:43:47 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-03-04T19:17:17 2021-04-29 Southeast Fisheries Science Center SEFSC 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA (305)361-5761 www.sefsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST 1001 Public No 2021-04-29 1 Year 2022-04-29