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Tracking a Sunfish in the Mediterranean Sea
Sunfish is a strange creature roaming the temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, including in the Mediterranean Sea. Tracking it using pop-up archival tags can help in better understand...
A Bearded Vulture Tracked for 14 years
Bearded vultures are essential to the ecosystems they inhabit. This threatened species has been monitored for a better understanding and protection in the Pyrenees mountains for about 30 years now....
Argos Solutions Are Getting a Boost
Congratulations to our Space IoT partner, Kinéis, and their launcher Rocket Lab for this evening’s successful launch! Today, the first five of a planned constellation of 25 nanosatellites are in...
New Generation of Argos Services are on Their Way With the 1st Launch of the Kineis Constellation on the 20th of June!
Kinéis, our Space IoT partner, has announced that it, along with RocketLab, will launch the first five nanosatellites carrying new generation IoT payloads for Argos Services. Due to unfavorable...
Using Micro-Satellite Tags to Track Tiny Sea Turtles
Upwell works to better understand how sea turtles use different marine environments at various life history stages in order to reduce the threats they face at sea. However, collecting data on a...
Where do Emperor Penguins moult in West Antarctica?
Moult is a challenging phase in the annual cycle of emperor penguins. It is a time when they must haul out of the ocean, cease eating and rely on their energy reserves whilst their feathers...
New Generation Argos Services Live Launch
Kinéis, our Space IoT partner, along with RocketLab, is launching the first five nanosatellites carrying IoT payloads for Argos services. Due to unfavorable weather, the Kinéis launch planned for...
Estimating where pop-up tags surfaced to better track Bering Sea crabs
Red king crabs can be tracked using pop-up tags which release and surface after a scheduled time. However, once at the surface, they may not be located immediately, which introduces an important...
Red Phalaropes: Their Migratory Routes and Behaviors with Argos
Red phalaropes are migratory birds breeding in the North American continent and wintering in pelagic regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from northern California to Peru/Chile. Argos helps to...
Harbour porpoises in the Wadden Sea
Some marine areas, such as the Wadden Sea, along the North Sea coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, are of special interest. Among the species found there, the harbour porpoises are...
CLS Leading the Transition to Sustainable Ocean Tech
Last year we unveiled the wooden buoy, a CLS innovation, that aims to reshape In Situ Ocean Monitoring. Part of an ongoing project to develop an eco-friendly way of gathering vital metocean data,...
Guillemots chicks swim with their fathers in the currents
Guillemots are seabirds with an original departure from the nest. Once on the sea, they migrate with their father to autumn staging areas. Argos satellite telemetry helps in better understand this...
Animal Telemetry Network: Understanding Marine Life movement
Instrumenting animals with transmitters has been done for a number of years, in particular using the ARGOS satellite system, to gain knowledge on their ecology, assess species vulnerability to...
Flatback turtles tracked to identify foraging areas and their variability within the species
Flatback turtles are marine turtles endemic to the Australian continental shelf. Few information is available on them, which hinder conservation measures. Satellite tracking and stable isotope...
Using Argos to decide conservation measures to protect Andean flamingos
Andean Flamingos are wetland birds that move between high-altitude Andean and lowland wetlands. They are the rarest of all flamingo species, and most of their life cycle is not well known. Using...
Walruses in Franz Josef Land archipelago
Walruses are large marine mammal living around the Arctic Ocean. The population from Franz Josef Land archipelago has scarcely been studied while being important component of their ecosystem. Argos...
CLS Is Exhibiting At Oceanology International 2024
CLS group is, as usual, taking part in the world's largest Ocean Technology & Science event this March. Join us at ExCel London between 12-14 March to discover our ocean technology innovations...
Canola, a mixed blessing for Carnaby’s cockatoos?
Carnaby's cockatoos are endangered parrots, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. They are beginning to feed on canola crops, which might be interesting for their survival – or not. Argos...
Argos satellite system launch announced
You already know that back in 2018, CLS created Kinéis with one goal: transform the Argos satellite system and deploy an unparalleled connectivity that is near real-time, universal, and with a...
Blue sharks in the Western Mediterranean Sea
Blue sharks are threatened - as most shark species. However, basic information on the species in the Mediterranean are missing - population, habitat, migration… -- while this sea is specific,...
Tracking Japanese eels with Argos tags
Japanese eels’ populations are declining, while their life cycle is not well-known. Part of the questions are similar to those asked for the European eels, but geography, the current and the species...
WaterSIM: Digitizing Water Resilience
Water is an essential resource to everyone on Earth. However, according to UNESCO, between 2-3 billion people worldwide experience water shortages. These shortages will only get worse over the...
CLS’ Buoyant Innovations: The Wooden Drifters Reshaping Ocean Monitoring
Drifting buoys such as those in the Global Drifter Program make significant contributions to weather forecasting, climate studies & marine studies. Additionally, they support scientific research...
Eagle-owls perching on powerlines
Eurasian eagle-owls are the largest owl in the world, found in a large range of different environments. They usually perche on high lookout-points, electric poles included, which is a high risk for...
Leatherback turtles nesting in Equatorial Guinea
Tracking leatherback turtles can help in protecting them at both a local scale, close to their nesting beach, and a basin-scale, when they migrate. The population from the Gulf of Guinea is...
Debbie Stakem: A 32-Year Journey with Argos
An enhanced global system like Argos requires an enhanced global support team and, with its 30 different sites around the world, CLS is proud to have an excellent international userservices team....
Seals Help in Assessing the Bathymetry around Antarctica
Southern Ocean seals are frequently tracked marine animals. They thus provide a lot of environmental data on an otherwise poorly observed ocean. This includes bathymetry of the Antarctica...
Understanding Catastrophic Breeding Seasons in a Large Colony of King Penguins
King penguins breed on a few colonies spread around the Southern Ocean. Some years are more successful than others in that respect, and understanding why could help in protecting such threatened...
Assessing exposure of harbour seals to maritime traffic noises
Harbour seals living in the North Sea are exposed to a heavy ship traffic. New Argos archival tags enable to record ambient sounds, so that noise exposures can be quantified at the seals’ level. A...
Montagu’s harriers are itinerant during their wintering in Africa
Montagu's harriers are migratory raptors wintering in Africa from Europe. However, once there and as many migrant birds, they do not stay at the same place during the whole winter, but move from...