One App for Your Entire
Conservation Team
From beach tagging to in-water studies, track turtles across seasons and coordinate your team - all in one place. Built for nighttime fieldwork, designed for any species and any environment.
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How Teams Use It
Your team's workflow from beach to database - simplified
Check conditions
Weather, tide, moon phase, and team alerts
Start survey
One tap check-in with auto time and GPS
Log encounters
Tags, photos, measurements, nesting data
Sync & analyze
Cloud sync, stats, and data export
Replace Multiple Tools
Stop juggling spreadsheets, group chats, weather apps, and paper forms. One app handles it all.
Works Offline
No cell service on the beach? No problem. Data saves locally and syncs automatically when you're back online.
Night Vision Friendly
Dark theme with red accents preserves your night-adapted vision during patrols.
Built for the Field
Everything your team needs, from check-in to data export - free for all users
Before You Go Out
Beach Conditions
Real-time weather, tide status, wave height, and moon phase fetched automatically. Includes an overall Activity-to-Visit score so you know what to expect.
Team Notes & Alerts
Share important notices with your team - equipment updates, turtle-specific alerts, or survey conditions. Everyone sees them on the dashboard.
Survey Check-In
One tap to start your survey. Captures time, location, and conditions. Tracks your session duration and links all observations to the survey.
In the Field
Tag Lookup & Inspection
Search by flipper tags, PIT tags, or name — partial matches and hex/decimal PIT formats both work. Three-state slot inspection (Not Checked, Present, Missing) keeps tag observations honest. Scan a tag to find a turtle and her slot auto-flips to Present.
Barcode Scanner
Scan PIT-tag packaging barcodes to record applied tags — no more typos transcribing 15-digit numbers in the dark.
GPS Location
Automatic coordinates for encounter start and nest site. Track nesting locations and beach sectors across seasons.
Photo Documentation
Capture and categorize photos - carapace profile, injuries, nest markers, tag close-ups. Stored locally until sync.
Comprehensive Data Entry
Nesting status, egg count, carapace measurements, body condition, injuries, sample collection, and detailed activity timing. Auto-saves every 30 seconds.
Turtle Profiles
Encounter History
Complete timeline for every turtle - when and where they were seen, who observed them, nesting records across all seasons.
Injury Tracking
Document injuries with location mapping - boat strikes, entanglement, shark bites. Track whether injuries are fresh or healing.
Tag History
Track original tags, replacements, and additional PIT tags with full change history. Never lose a turtle's identity.
Growth & Nesting Data
Curved carapace measurements over time, nesting records, egg counts, and nest depth - all linked to the individual turtle.
Team Operations
Cloud Sync
Data syncs to the cloud when connected. Multi-device access with organization-level data isolation.
Personal & Team Stats
Track your own survey contributions alongside team-wide metrics - total turtles, observations, volunteer hours, nesting rates, and recapture stats.
Team Management
Invite members with codes, manage roles (admin, coordinator, volunteer), and track who's actively surveying.
Data Export
Export your observations and turtle records for reports and analysis. Keep your existing data flowing into the tools you already use.
Team Collaboration PRO
Meet Bob, Your Team Bot
Bob knows every turtle on your beach — ask him “who is 982000406134557?” in chat and he answers from your team’s real records. He sees photos you share, can pin a message or attach a photo to a turtle’s record on request, and writes research notes on demand. He greets returning surveyors, posts a morning recap, suggests names for new turtles, and is honest about what he can’t do instead of pretending. Pick his tone per org — professional, casual, or playful.
Beach Chat
A dedicated team chat with photos, @mentions, reactions, and search. See who’s online, share field updates in real time, and keep the conversation in one place instead of three group texts.
Daily Digest Email
A clean recap every morning — encounters, weather, photos, and unconfirmed tag mentions from chat. Coordinators wake up to a summary instead of scrolling logs.
Live Activity Feed
Real-time stream of every check-in, encounter, alert, and chat message across the team. Stay aware of what’s happening on the beach without pinging volunteers mid-survey.
Per-Observation PDF Email
Opt in and get a single-page form-style PDF emailed every time a teammate submits an observation — every field rendered, photos embedded inline, formatted like the old paper datasheet. Useful for archiving, printing, or sharing with partners.
Built for Sea Turtle Tagging
Generic field-data platforms are form builders — you bend them to your protocol. TurtleOps is the workflow you already follow, with the data model you already use, in an app the team already knows.
Tag Slots Are First-Class
LRF, RRF, RFF and LFF aren’t generic columns — they’re the data model. Each slot carries a three-state inspection (Not Checked / Present / Missing) and its own history of replacements, losses, and re-tags.
PIT Formats Handled
Hex, decimal, partial scans, manufacturer-batch awareness, fuzzy matching for misreads. Search by the last six digits and find her. Type a hex PIT and we decode it for you.
Tuned for the Nesting Workflow
Body-pitting times, nest marking methods, egg counts, carapace measurements, sample collection, false-crawl tracking — every nighttime step already has a field. No free-text wrangling.
A Bot Who Knows Your Turtles
Bob answers from your team’s actual records, not generic AI guesswork. Ask him about a PIT, a name, or last season’s recaptures — he knows what your team knows.
Simple Pricing
Fieldwork is free. Pro adds team collaboration (Bob, Beach Chat, daily digest, activity feed) and the desktop tools most programs rely on.
Free
For teams getting started
- Unlimited observations & turtles
- Survey check-in/check-out
- Beach conditions & tide data
- Tag lookup & verification
- Photo documentation
- Offline mode with cloud sync
- Team notes & alerts
- Personal & team statistics
- Data export (CSV)
- Unlimited team members
Pro
Per organization, billed annually. Unlimited users.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Bob — AI team bot with vision & tool-use
- Beach Chat with photos, mentions & reactions
- Daily digest email
- Per-observation PDF email
- Live activity feed
- Web dashboard for desktop management
- Interactive observation map
- Auto-drafted social media posts
- Duplicate turtle merge & fuzzy tag search
- Observation edit history & research flags
- Advanced exporting (R, ACCSTR, etc.)
Other field data platforms charge $500+ per user per year. TurtleOps Pro covers your entire team for $828/year.
Works for Any Team
Whether you're tagging leatherbacks on a beach in Trinidad or capturing greens in-water in Hawaii, TurtleOps adapts to your program.
Any Species
Leatherbacks, greens, loggerheads, hawksbills, olive ridleys - configure the species you monitor.
Any Environment
Beach nesting surveys, in-water capture studies, or stranding response. Works anywhere in the world with automatic tide and weather.
Your Protocols
Configure required photos, measurements, and data fields. Match your research protocols exactly.
Names or Tags
Some programs name every turtle; others identify purely by tag. Pick the convention that fits your team — both flow through the rest of the app cleanly.
Team Roles
Admins manage settings and review data. Coordinators handle operations. Volunteers focus on fieldwork.
See It in Action
Designed for the dark, built for the field
Dashboard
Check in to your survey, see current conditions, and get team updates at a glance.
New Encounter
Quick data entry with turtle lookup, GPS capture, and photo documentation.
Observations
Browse all encounters with filtering and search. Tap any entry for full details.
Injury Tracking
Document injuries with location details and track healing across seasons.
Team Notes
Share survey conditions, equipment updates, and important notices with your team.
Operations
Team stats, turtle alerts, data import/export, and project configuration.