8647
Sea Turtle Stranding Network Reports
STSSN Reports
Data Set
Published / External
3742
Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network
Project
In Work
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.
Theme
Turtles
Theme
abundance
Theme
esa
Theme
fisheries-independent data
Theme
hawksbill
Theme
kemp's ridley turtle
Theme
leatherback
Theme
loggerhead turtle
Theme
morbidity
Theme
mortality
Theme
olive ridley
Theme
protective species
Theme
stock structure
Theme
strandings
Temporal
1998-present
Spatial
Atlantic Coast
Spatial
Carribean
Spatial
Gulf of Mexico
Stratum
county
Stratum
month
Stratum
region
Stratum
species
Stratum
state
Stratum
year
Stratum
zone
Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Miami
FL
USA
Data Set
Mixed
Continually
Table (digital)
N/A
N/A
Human Observation
37441
sea turtle stranding by zone report
Published / External
In Work
Turtle stranding summary report for each Year state combination, totals of each species by week and summary totals by week and species.
This entity is define as type Report. Rather than as a data table because there is information critical to understanding the report that is not contained in the column definitions.
In the Data Attributes Area of the metadata
Columns in the report are defined as type numeric or type character. Their meaning is explained at the attribute level.
Other Areas in the report like the Title Area, Parameters Area and Totals Area are defined as type text and how the text is built is described at the attribute level.
.
Report
Yes
Turtle stranding summary report for each Year state combination, totals of each species by week and summary totals by week and species.
2
Report Title
Text
Yes
No
Active
Indicates Which Parameters That Are Selected For The Report.
It gives a list of the selected parameters between the words By and Report
REGION, STATE, ZONE
10
Selected Parameters Area
Text
Yes
No
Active
Parameters Year and the selected parameter whether it be state, zone, or region
Examples Year 1999 State Alabama. or Year 1999 Zone 19 or Year 1999 Region GULF OF MEXICO ( TX-FG)
,
15
States in Zone
Text
No
No
Active
Lists States when it is a By Zone Report..
Other this line is not present in the report
20
WK
Numeric
2
Yes
No
Active
Week Number (from the start of the Calander Year) for the Report.
This Value will go sequentially from 1 to 52.
The cell below 52 indicates it is a summary row
25
PERIOD
Character
Yes
No
Active
Date Range For The Week in Question.
This will generally be 7 days in questions except for the first week of the year which will be the extra days to round things so that there will be 52 weeks in the year
02/22-02/28/1998
MM/DD-MM/DD/YYYY
30
OFFSHORE CC
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of Offshore Loggerhead Turtles that were stranded
40
OFFSHORE CM
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of Offshore Green Turtles that were stranded
50
OFFSHORE DC
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of offshore Leatherback Turtles that were stranded
55
OFFSHORE LK
Numeric
No
No
2
Active
Number of Offshore Kemp's Ridely Turtles that were strande
60
OFFSHORE LO
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of Offshore Olive Ridley Turtles that were stranded
65
OFFSHORE UN
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of offshore Unidentified Turtles that were stranded
70
OFFSHORE TOT
Numeric
No
No
2
Active
Total Number of offshore Turtles that were stranded
80
INSHORE CC
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of Inshore Loggerhead Turtles that were stranded
90
INSHORE CM
Numeric
No
No
2
Active
Number of Inshore Green Turtles that were stranded
100
INSHORE DC
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of Inshore Leatherback Turtles that were stranded
110
INSHORE LK
Numeric
No
No
2
Active
Number of Inshore Kemp's Ridely Turtles that were stranded
120
INSHORE LO
Numeric
No
No
2
Active
Number of inshore Olive Ridley Turtles that were stranded
130
INSHORE UN
Numeric
No
No
2
Active
Number of inshore unidentified Turtles that were stranded
135
INSHORE TOT
Numeric
No
No
2
Active
Total Number of inshore Turtles that were stranded
140
ADULT SIZED CC
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of Adult Sized Loggerhead Turtles that were stranded
150
ADULT SIZED LK
Numeric
No
No
Active
Number of Adult Sized Kemp's Ridely Turtles that were stranded
160
Total Area
Text
Yes
No
Active
This line of text gives a summary of each of the columns for the whole year in question
1701
TABS Names
.XLS(X) Tab Name
Yes
No
Active
The generated reports consist of a multi tabbed .xls(x) file. The number and naming of these tabs depends upon the selected parameters
In cases where Report is by Statzone there will be one tab per each statzone with the tab being named statzones where X i is the statzone number.
In cases where Report is by State there will be one tab per each state with the tab being named STATE concatenated with the two character abbreviation. .
37501
sea turtle stranding narrative report
Published / External
In Work
A Report at the detail level of Turtle Standings summaries.
Stranding records that meet the selection criteria are display over several lines.
This entity is define as type Report. Rather than as a data table because there is information critical to understanding the report that is not contained in the column definitions.
In the Data Attributes Area of the metadata
Columns in the report are defined as type numeric or type character. Their meaning is explained at the attribute level.
Other Areas in the report like the Title Area, Parameters Area and Totals Area are defined as type text and how the text is built is described at the attribute level.
.
Report
Yes
A Report at the detail level of Turtle Standings summaries.
Stranding records that meet the selection criteria are display over several lines.
10
Report Title
Text
Yes
No
Active
Always Sea Turtle Stranding Narrative Report
20
Paramters Area
Text
Yes
No
Active
Lists the User specified parameters for this report.
Breaks are on these parameters
It can include Year, Week, State and zone
30
Break Variables With Counts
Text
Yes
No
Active
First Line is a concatenation of Week Number and Dates For The Week
Second Line is State and Stranding Counts for Each Condition
WEEK 52 Period 12/23/2012 - 12/31/2012
TEXAS Strandings/Cold Stun:14 Incidental:5
40
Report Details
Text
Yes
No
Active
GREEN DEC/27 SEVERELY DECOMPOSED
GALVESTON COUNTY OFFSHORE
TURTLE REPORTED, CARCASS NOT RECOVERED; IMPACT WOUND TO REAR CARAPACE; MISSING REAR FLIPPERS
50
TURTLE_SPECIES
Character
Yes
No
Active
Speciesn Of Strabded Turtle
Loggerhead
Green
Kemp's Ridely
Leatherback
Hawksbill
OLive Ridley
Unidentified
70
Stranding_Date
Character
Yes
No
Active
Date The Turtle was stranded
80
Stranding_condition
Character
Yes
No
Active
Indicates The condition of the stranded turtle
Alive
Fresh Dead
Moderately Decomposed
Severely Decomposed
Dried Carcass
Skeleton,Bones Only
90
Stranding_County
Character
Yes
No
Active
Name of the county that the turtle was stranded
100
Stranding_Location
Character
Yes
No
Active
Indicates more details on the stranding location
offshore
inshore
110
Stranding_Condition
Character
Yes
No
Active
Condition of the stranded turtle -- one of the six check boxes on the form
Alive
Freshly Dead
Moderately Composed
Severely Composed
Dried Carcass
Skeleton, Bones Only
120
Comments
Character
Yes
No
Active
Other comments about the stranding
Data Steward
1998-01-01
Person
Teas, Wendy G
Wendy.Teas@noaa.gov
75 Virginia Beach Dr
Miami
FL
33149
305-361-4595
305-361-4478
phone or email
Distributor
1998
Organization
Southeast Fisheries Science Center
SEFSC
75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami
FL
33149
USA
(305)361-5761
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/southeast-fisheries-science-center
About SEFSC
Online Resource
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST
Metadata Contact
1998
Person
Teas, Wendy G
Wendy.Teas@noaa.gov
75 Virginia Beach Dr
Miami
FL
33149
305-361-4595
305-361-4478
Point of Contact
1998
Person
Teas, Wendy G
Wendy.Teas@noaa.gov
75 Virginia Beach Dr
Miami
FL
33149
305-361-4595
305-361-4478
U.S. Gulf of Mexico , Southeast U.S. Atlantic and Northeast U.S. Atlantic
Continuing
1998-01-01
Unclassified
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
1998
https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/stssnrep/SeaTurtleReportI.do?action=reportquery
1998
Organization
Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Landings Page - STSSN - Sea Turtle Stranding by Zone Report
1998
https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/stssnrep/SeaTurtleReportII.do?action=reportIIqueryp
1998
Organization
Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Landings Page STSSN - Sea Turtle Stranding Narrative Report
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/sea-turtle-stranding-and-salvage-network
Landings Page For National SSTN Page
Oracle database
.xls files
State coordinators are highly trained scientists who collect the data
Data doubled checked in data entry
No
Unknown
No
No
90
Data is made available as entered
To Be Determined
365
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
37466
Document
North Atlantic Statzone
37521
Document
Public Access Policy
37503
Document
Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network - Stranding Report Back Page
37502
Document
Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network - Stranding Report Front Page
37522
Document
Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network - Stranding Rpt Instructions
37463
Document
Southeast US Atlantic Statzone
37523
Document
State Coordinators List
37462
Document
U.S. Gulf of Mexico statistical zone map
37441
Entity
sea turtle stranding by zone report
37501
Entity
sea turtle stranding narrative report
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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
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