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Argos: an enabling technology for climate research
Over 35 years of ocean data with Argos
Photo by NOAA
Polar bears and climate change
The USGS Alaska Science Center has used the Argos system to track and study polar bears for over 30 years.
ARGOS-ACOS : a near real-time climate observation system for high latitudes
The Arctic is warming at a rate of almost twice the global average.
TRITON Moorings for the Tropical Ocean Climate Study
Identifying El Niño events & building the TAO/TRITON array
Photo by JAMSTEC
Tracking desert waterbirds: boom-bust nomads in a changing climate
Desert waterbirds and their mysteries
Photo by Roger Standen
Argos Forum #81 | Argos, Monitoring the Impacts of Climate Change
Polar bears and climate change, A near real-time climate observation system for high latitudes, Boom-bust nomads in a changing climate, etc.
The autumn migration 2015 of Lesser Spotted Eagles has started in September
Using Argos satellite telemetry, studies of 15 different bird of prey species have been conducted since 1992, in Germany and abroad. Source : WWGBP
New Argos antenna on Easter Island!
The new antenna, under construction.
Argos tags to study enigmatic sea creatures
Credit Photo : Wikipedia commons
Find a tag at sea with goniometer
“…the goniometer worked perfectly for chasing down PSATs on their pop-up date in Glacier Bay! We were able to recover 4/5 tags that popped up, including 1 Desert Star tag that was missing an antenna! The remaining tag is another Desert Star tag that is not transmitting frequently enough to provide an Argos location, it is possible that this tag is missing its antenna as well….”
Credit photo : Amanda Compton
Finding a glider in the Coral Sea
A glider deployed in the Coral Sea in May 2015 by the IMOS (Australia) developed technical problems, most likely due to a faulty memory card. The glider was recovered in September 2015, thanks the RXG-134.”
Exploring the possibility of using Argo float data to validate bathymetric data
Ocean bathymetry is one of the major factors which control dynamic processes such as oceanic currents, coastal upwelling, tides, tsunamis, and internal waves. Bathymetric datasets also form a major input for ocean models. Accurate water depth information is necessary when studying ocean dynamics. A variety of bathymetric datasets with different coverages, resolutions, and accuracies are now available. While the quality and resolution of such datasets have improved greatly for open oceans as satellite-altimetry data become available in the late 1990s, large uncertainties still remain for bathymetries in shallow waters where the spatial scale of bottom features are small. Further refinement of bathymetric datasets for shallow regions is necessary to improve the overall performance of ocean models. Argo float data may provide a new source for validating these data, as Udaya Bhaskar explains.
An Argos tag floated about 3,000 kilometers before being found in Ireland
By combining the data acquired with their location, Argos enables biologists to improve their understanding of the Salmon fish behavior, such as their movements, foraging strategies, reproduction and the way they adapt to their surrounding environment.
Credut photos FIS – ASF
MEOP web portal : ocean observations by marine mammals
MEOP access data portal : marine animals provide rich ocean observations
Tiger sharks
Argos reveals the tiger shark’s “marathon” migrations
Revealing the secrets of the Sooty falcons with Argos satellite telemetry
Argos satellite telemetry has tracked Sooty Falcons from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to their wintering areas in Madagascar. The data provided a better understanding of the falcon’s behavior, and revealed habitats worth protecting in order to save this “Near threatened” species.
Australia: Argos users join global campaign to protect the Great Barrier Reef
Ocean conservationists including Argos user Nan Hauser launch a global campaign to protect the Australian Great Barrier Reef.
Where science and history intersect: the hermione’s contribution to operational oceanography
The French tall ship “Hermione” deployed an Argo profiling float during its Transatlantic journey in the path of General Lafayette, contributing to ocean and climate research.
Photo Credit : Nigel Pert
Refugio oil spill: Pelican victims fitted with Argos satellite tags successfully released into the wild !
Credit Photo : Juliet Lamb
Argos, a key component of global animal observation networks
Argos, a key component of global animal observation networks
Tracking Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa)
The Conservation Ecology Group of the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences used a goniometer to track both dead and living Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) in their long-term demographic project on this species .
MARY LEE: Argos tagged shark becomes Twitter star
Mary Lee has recently attracted a lot of attention on social media through her @MaryLeeShark account.
Argos Forum #80 | Innovations in Ocean Science
Exploring the possibility of using Argo float data to validate bathymetric data, Observing the Southern Ocean and beyond with an extremely long-lived drifting buoy, Elephant seals as an innovative source of in-situ observations in the Southern Ocean, etc.
The SELPAL Project
The project is implemented for a period of 2 years with the support of French organizations
Managing Argos data in Movebank
Movebank is a free online database of animal tracking data hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.
Ocean Business 2015
CLS will be present at the largest ocean technology event of the year. We hope to see you there!
Argos profiling floats onboard the Barcelona World Race
On “Argo Day”, all of the boats participating in the Barcelona World Race 2014/15 will launch an Argo profiling float into the ocean, as part of their round-the-world voyage.
iSTAR Project
Photo by Mike Fedak, SMRU, University of St Andrews.
CLS, Satellite services provider for Argo program
A fleet of robots dives and drifts through the global ocean, and it has revolutionized our understanding of our watery planet.
Day 3 IUCAWA 2014
Conference Notes. On November 20th, the morning presentations focused on using Argos tracking to assess the impact of climate change on wildlife.