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...
Nov 16, 2014 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dr. Wells has been using Argos to track dolphins and small whales since 1997. His involvement includes the tagging and/or tracking of more than 100 small cetaceans of 8 species, ranging in size from franciscanas up to pilot whales. His current research program uses a...
Nov 9, 2014 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dr. Ceballos is a major figure in global conservation science, carrying out strenuous field work testing ideas in countryside biogeography and doing important theoretical/ practical work on the global distributions of mammals and their significance for mammal...
