May 24, 2017 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
At the 2nd Argos Asian Wildlife Tracking Workshop in Incheon, Korea, Dr. Heqi Wu, a Chinese ornithologist, will present “An introduction on Sino-BON birds CAS and major works.” He will introduce a monitoring network on important water bird species...
Jan 12, 2017 | Fish, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
On January 21st 2016, Rob Gregor (CSIRO) and his team from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) deployed the Slocum glider 416 (Amy) as part of the eReefs project to observe the water around the northern Great Barrier Reef. The plan was for the deployment...
Jan 2, 2017 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
By Lilia Dmitrieva, Simon J. Goodman, School of Biology, University of Leeds, UK The Caspian seal (Pusa caspica) is a small-bodied, ice-breeding phocid, endemic to the landlocked Caspian Sea in Central Asia. The species is listed as ‘Endangered’ by the International...
Dec 16, 2016 | Argos Forum, Birds, Fish, Land Animals, Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Argos telemetry plays a central role in protecting endangered and vulnerable species from all biomes – marine, terrestrial and avian. Satellite telemetry reveals key conservation parameters such as population connectivity, the location of critical habitats such...
Nov 18, 2016 | Goniometer, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Rick Goetz (NOAA NWFSC) leased the Argos Goniometer in May 2016 in order to recover pop-up satellite tags (model: SeaTag-MOD from Desert Star Systems). Using the Argos Goniometer, Rick noted, “We got all the tags we went after….there were 4 tags in the...
Oct 5, 2016 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Copyright Thibault Powolny Based at the Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, in the Deux-Sèvres region of eastern France, the real field of investigation of these biologists is thousands of kilometers away from mainland France. In the French Southern and...
