Sep 18, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Southern Ocean seals are frequently tracked marine animals. They thus provide a lot of environmental data on an otherwise poorly observed ocean. This includes bathymetry of the Antarctica continental shelf, thanks to the recorded depths of their dives. Measuring in...
Sep 4, 2023 | Birds, Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
King penguins breed on a few colonies spread around the Southern Ocean. Some years are more successful than others in that respect, and understanding why could help in protecting such threatened species. Argos can help in better assessing the reasons. King penguins...
Aug 21, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Harbour seals living in the North Sea are exposed to a heavy ship traffic. New Argos archival tags enable to record ambient sounds, so that noise exposures can be quantified at the seals’ level. A number of high amplitude noise events were detected, including in...
Jul 25, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Bottlenose dolphins have been studied more in shallow waters than in deep ones. However, they do live in deep waters, for example around the Bermuda Island. Monitoring their diving behavior there using Argos PTTs leads to different estimates of their diving...
Jun 9, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Oceanic manta rays are found around the tropical open oceans. Their presence and behaviour in the East of the Atlantic Ocean was poorly known, and has been investigated using Argos satellite telemetry and on site sighting surveys around the Cap Vert archipelago. Manta...
May 9, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Turtles in the Gulf of Mexico experience major hurricanes. How they respond to such extreme events is a puzzle whose answers would contribute to the conservation of these threatened and endangered species. Telemetry provides some pieces to that puzzle. On October 10,...
