N-S movement of juvenile loggerheads relative to the 17 degree C isotherm.

9/4/23

Loggerhead turtle animation video by Don Kobayashi.












4/4/2023


Dr. Dana Briscoe has written a program that will keep track of SST (sea surface temperatures) at four longitudes (160W, 150W, 145W, and 140W) along the proposed path of the deployment ship.  You can visit the page created by Dana at  https://danabriscoe.github.io/cc-stretch-sst-automation.  This will be updated on a weekly basis.  

Below is a look at the map created by Dana and an indication of the latitude of the 4 data points graphed on the page.




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