Leatherback sea turtle behavior: stay near home or set off across the ocean?
Physical Monitoring
While it’s difficult to predict how warm sea surface temperatures will get during the next El Niño event, or how harsh the next drought will be, a wealth of historical physical monitoring data help us predict the extent of future weather anomalies and allow us to define record-setting events. Decades of physical monitoring track temperatures, precipitation and sea levels over time, providing a solid base for a wide range of research projects and questions.