Turtle Sense / 2015 Season Results

We are currently monitoring nests at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. For up to date predictions and graphs of data, please go to our Google Group

Here are graphs of nests where hatchlings have emerged:

	NPS code	Sensor	Date Predicted	Date Observed	Notes;
	NH007R	AA0009	---	July 20	The NPS reports that this nest boiled the night of July 20th. There was too much noise in this nest to be able to make any predictions. After the final count we'll know how predated the nest was. If you imagine the data without all the spikes, you can imagine hatching data behind the noise. This nest went very early -- day 51. 20+ emerged the following day
	NH002	AA0005	July 21	July 21	(Note, the days listed in the x-axis of this chart is off by 8 days. Add 8 to the numbers you see.) Emergence was predicted for Tuesday evening, July 21st. Turtle patrol reported 1 hatching track and a depression on 07/22. (More might have come out, there was a severe rain storm the previous night.)
	NH004	AA0007	July 23	July 22	Emergence was predicted for Thursday evening, July 23rd. The first 15 or so were observed the evening before. The turtle patrol observed tracks for over 25 hatchlings on the 23rd.
	NH003	AA0006	July 24	July 23	Emergence was predicted for Friday evening, July 24th. The first few hatchlings were observed the evening before. There was a boil on the 25th.
	NH014	AA0013	July 26	July 26	There was a boil the night of the 26th, sometime after 9PM and before 6:30AM the next morning, with too many tracks to count.
	NH015	AA0011	July 30	July 29	Three hatchlings emerged on the 29th and there was a boil on the 30th.
	NH022	AA0016	July 29	July 29	There was minimal data to use to generate a prediction, but even so the prediction was accurate. 30+ hatchlings emerged on the 29th.
	NH023	AA0017	Aug 7	Aug 6	The morning of 8/7 a hatchling was found wandering near the dunes. Rain washed out the tracks so it is not certain how many emerged the evening of 8/6. There was a record of 9 hatchlings on the 9th and 5 on the 10th. A total of 85 eggshells were counted. It seems likely that most of the hatchlings left on Thursday evening (8/6).
	NH024	AA0025	Aug 6	Aug 7	More than 20 tracks were counted the morning of the 8th. On 8/9 the activity recorded was from the nest being washed out. Very few hatched or unhatched were found after the washout, so it is unclear exactly what happened.
	NH013	AA0010	---	---	This nest was thought to be infertile, and it was. Excavated on Aug 12
	NH036	AA0024	Aug 12	Aug 12	20+ tracks noticed by Turtle Patrol on 8/13. Only about 1/4 of the eggs hatched.
	NH055R	AA0026	---	Aug 12	Only 7 of 129 eggs were viable. No hatching activity noticed in data.