Day 3: Tortuguero Field Work – Thermal Data Loggers 072414

While at Tortuguero, students worked on various group projects.  One sub-group buried thermal data loggers at various depths, to determine temperature at those various depths.  When nesting turtles dig their nests, the depth is critical to determining whether the eggs will become male or female, as the sex is temperature dependent.  The range varies for each turtle species.  Below is a file which shows the temperature results for each depth in centimeters, as well as pictures showing the technology used, students using computers to launch and choose the measurement criteria for the data loggers, and then deploying them on the beach:

Tortuguero Logger Plots CR 2014