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AN: IN11A-0102    [Abstracts]
TI: Turtle Nest Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks
AU: * Szlavecz, K
EM: szlavecz@jhu.edu
AF: The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
AU: Terzis, A
EM: terzis@jhu.edu
AF: The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
AU: Musaloiu, R
EM: razvanm@cs.jhu.edu
AF: The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
AU: Liang, C
EM: cliang4@cs.jhu.edu
AF: The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
AU: Cogan, J
EM: joshtron@gmail.com
AF: The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
AU: Klofas, J
EM: jklofas@gmail.com
AF: The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
AU: Xia, L
EM: xiaxia@jhu.edu
AF: The Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
AU: Swarth, C
EM: rpswar@aacounty.org
AF: Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, 1361 Wrighton Rd, Lothian, MD 20711, United States
AU: Matthews, S
EM: tortugachip@hotmail.com
AF: Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, 1361 Wrighton Rd, Lothian, MD 20711, United States
AB: We have recently developed a wireless sensor system for environmental monitoring. The system is based upon the sensor platform by Telos, soil moisture sensors from Decagon and our own temperature sensors. The system was deployed at the Jug Bay Wetland Sanctuary, around several nests of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina). Conditions in the soil where turtles excavate their nests can have a profound effect on egg survival, hatchling survival and on the sex of hatchling turtles. Turtles prefer nesting in sunny areas where solar radiation provides the heat source that warms the developing embryos. Our system has provided a continuous monitoring of all these parameters over a period of several months in the summer of 2007. The data show several interesting phenomena about temperature gradients in the vicinity of the turtle nests. The deployment also served as a validation of our second generation sensor platform, which performed remarkably well.
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 1890 Wetlands (0497)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting