Sep 8, 2015 | Fish, Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Basking sharks are prevalent in the North Atlantic waters, off the coast of Scotland. While it is rarer to spot a basking shark in the Irish Sea, sightings have been reported off the Isle of Man. This is why a new partnership between Sea Life...
Sep 2, 2015 | Goniometer, News, Wildlife Monitoring
“This equipment is very good news for researchers – now it is reasonable to expect that if PSATs pop up in an area that can be reached by boat, tags can be physically recovered. For my research, this means that I can make sense of the geomagnetic and...
Aug 31, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The Argo Program Argo is an international program aimed at seeding the global ocean with 3000 profiling floats which measure temperature and salinity from surface to 2000 meters depth. As these floats are autonomous and tend to drift with the currents while at the...
Jul 27, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Argos transmitters attached to a fishes in New Brunswick in 2014 were just recovered in Greenland and Ireland. The Argos tags are attached to selected salmon by the Atlantic Salmon Federation in an effort to try and discover the reasons for high mortality at sea....