Jan 2, 2017 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
By Lilia Dmitrieva, Simon J. Goodman, School of Biology, University of Leeds, UK The Caspian seal (Pusa caspica) is a small-bodied, ice-breeding phocid, endemic to the landlocked Caspian Sea in Central Asia. The species is listed as ‘Endangered’ by the International...
Dec 6, 2016 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
In February 2016, Jean-Louis Lamy (from LAMY Marine Consulting) was tasked with recovering four subsurface moorings off Crozet Island, that had been deployed more than 13 years ago. The moorings, located at 400 meters below the sea surface, were equipped with Argos...
Nov 18, 2016 | Goniometer, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Rick Goetz (NOAA NWFSC) leased the Argos Goniometer in May 2016 in order to recover pop-up satellite tags (model: SeaTag-MOD from Desert Star Systems). Using the Argos Goniometer, Rick noted, “We got all the tags we went after….there were 4 tags in the...
Oct 5, 2016 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Based at the Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, in the Deux-Sèvres region of eastern France, the real field of investigation of these biologists is thousands of kilometers away from mainland France. In the French Southern and Antarctic territories, made up...
Sep 26, 2016 | Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
A new version of ArgosWeb is available as of September 26th with a lot of new features as well as your old favorites. To try it out, login! Features Responsive design (entirely compatible with smart phones and tablets) Entirely rebuilt mapping tool Improved data...
