Feb 22, 2014 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
In February of 2014, we bought a goniometer from CLS in order to find that PTT and any other that could be lost in the future. We drove to Sierra de Filabres, to a location about two kilometers away from our last received position, an arid hilly area with a very...
Jan 31, 2014 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The glider was still diving but it was unable to transmit data and the GPS positions were increasingly unreliable. After 24 hours, the glider stopped sending data via Iridium altogether. Only the Argos positions were still being received, with a 30 minute delay via...
Nov 14, 2013 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
As human activities in marine and aquatic environments continue to increase worldwide, the combined and cumulative effects of these activities are posing greater threats to marine mammals as individuals, populations, and species. The conference will highlight how...
Oct 20, 2013 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), commonly known as the “gavião-real” in the Brazilian Amazon, is the most powerful bird of prey from Americas. Initially, we could see the Harpy Eagle in Mexico, Central America and South America. The population of the species that is...
Aug 7, 2013 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Sea turtles, are highly migratory have a complex life cycle and use a wide range of habitats. All five turtle species found along the Brazilian coast are endangered and included in the National Brazilian Endangered Fauna Species List of the Ministry of the...
Sep 25, 2012 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Sharks are currently threatened all over the world, and the general public does not enough about their behavior and evolution. For the past 12 years MCSI (Marine Conservation Science Institute) scientists have been studying the behavior and migratory patterns of...
