Dec 7, 2015 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Pacific leatherbacks, a species that is already in sharp decline due to development on nesting beaches, illegal egg harvesting and fisheries bycatch, may also be vulnerable to climate change. In a study lead by Ellen Willis-Norton, Argos tracking data collected from...
Dec 3, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Argo float technology is recognized within the climate community as a huge step in the climate observing system, providing essential observations of the ocean down to 2000 metres. But over the past 15 years, what have these oceanographic robots really taught us about...
Dec 2, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
One of the consequences of climate change is that the intensity and frequency of severe weather events such as tropical cyclones is predicted to change into the future. Of particular concern to coastal communities in Queensland, Australia is that the intensity of...
Dec 1, 2015 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Predicting the impact of future environmental changes on biodiversity is today a major challenge for ecologists. This is particularly true in the polar regions, where climate change is faster and more severe than anywhere else on the planet. In an article originally...
Nov 29, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The arrival of Argos in the late 1970’s coincided perfectly with an exciting shift of emphasis in ocean and meteorological research. Single discipline studies were being replaced with a multi-discipline approach aimed at describing the physical processes that...
Nov 28, 2015 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The polar bear is an iconic apex predator whose specialized adaptations for capturing seals from the surface of the sea ice has allowed them to flourish in the Arctic marine environment for at least 500,000 years. Polar bears occur only in northern hemisphere seas...
