t Osa Conservation (OC), data about the sea turtles, their nests and the hatchlings, is written down in note books during the beach patrols. Later, this data is collected in one or more spreadsheets. However, the sea turtle team would like to have a better tool to collect their data (STRDs part 1). In the previous parts of this series, I briefly described and discussed a number of sea turtle databases that I found on the internet. In this blog post, I will draw some conclusions. … More STRDs part 7 : Conclusion

Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation’s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In part 6, I will look at Sea Turtle DB, which was launched in May 2020. … More STRDs part 6 : Sea Turtle DB

Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation‘s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In part 5, I will look at TURT which is a crowdsourcing system. Probably launched in 2015, there is an app for iPhone and Android that uses crowdsourcing to … More STRDs part 5 : Turtles Uniting Researchers and Tourists (TURT)

Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation’s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In parts two and three, I presented SWOT and TREDS. In part 4, I will look at Turtle Tracker. … More STRDs part 4 : Turtle Tracker

In part three of this series, I will look at another old database, which contrary to the SWOT database (of part 2), is designed for the capture of beach patrol data. … More STRDs part 3 : Turtle Research and Monitoring Database System (TREDS)

Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation’s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In part two, I will look at one of the oldest solutions I could find on line. … More STRDs part 2 : The state of the world’s sea turtles (SWOT)

This is the start of a series of posts about sea turtle research databases. The questions are which ones already exist, what do they do, how do they compare and would they be suitable for Osa Conservation? … More STRDs part 1 : Sea Turtle Research Databases