Jan 21, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
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. The seven IMOCA 60 of the Barcelona Race have become “ships of opportunity”...
Dec 9, 2014 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
This male Southern elephant seal was tagged on the Edwards Islands as part of the iSTAR project. A telemetry tag designed by the Sea Mammal Research Unit is attached to fur on its head with epoxy glue. The tag, which sends back ocean temperature and salinity profiles...
Dec 8, 2014 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The Argo Project : Global Observations for Understanding and Prediction of Climate Variability Until the first deployment of Argo floats in 2000, less than 1 percent of the ocean was being monitored routinely. Today, more than 3,000 of these aquatic robots...
Nov 20, 2014 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
Scientists reported on the impact of climate change on Magellanic penguins in Punto Tomba, Argentina, on Emperor Penguins in the Southern Atlantic ocean, on polar bears and walruses in the Arctic, and on what lower oxygen levels in the Atlantic Ocean (as predicted by...
Nov 19, 2014 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
The second day focused on using Argos to understand protected habitats and species and included the work of scientists and naturalists in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Bulgaria, Peru and Brazil. These scientists are working with endangered or...
Nov 18, 2014 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
The great diversity of research and conservation science accomplished with Argos was applauded by the administrators, and all expressed their commitment to the continuity of the Argos system. Jean-Yves Legall, President of the French Space Agency, insisted that the...
