Monitoring is taking place at sea turtle nesting beaches around the world. The nesting data collected at these monitoring sites are typically gathered by local (individual beach) organizations and aggregated at the state or national level under the direction of a state or national coordinator. In most cases the exact data collected and the method of storage (database format and software) varies from state to state and in some cases between individual organizations within a state. This makes it difficult to compare data across broad geographic scales, something that is critical to the proper monitoring and assessment of threatened and endangered sea turtle species that ignore state and national boundaries. SEATURTLE.ORG has created the Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring System as a data management network to help organizations distributed around the world to collect and store data in a standardized format for real-time comparison and monitoring of all participating nesting beaches. The system has been designed in cooperation with sea turtle coordinators in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.