Apr 18, 2024 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution
Last year we unveiled the wooden buoy, a CLS innovation, that aims to reshape In Situ Ocean Monitoring. Part of an ongoing project to develop an eco-friendly way of gathering vital metocean data, the wooden buoy now has been undergoing further developments and is now...
Apr 2, 2024 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Guillemots are seabirds with an original departure from the nest. Once on the sea, they migrate with their father to autumn staging areas. Argos satellite telemetry helps in better understand this travel, and assess whether they use the currents, how long and where to...
Mar 26, 2024 | Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Instrumenting animals with transmitters has been done for a number of years, in particular using the ARGOS satellite system, to gain knowledge on their ecology, assess species vulnerability to environmental changes and/or species distributions. Nowadays, those...
Mar 18, 2024 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Flatback turtles are marine turtles endemic to the Australian continental shelf. Few information is available on them, which hinder conservation measures. Satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis of females nesting in eastern Queensland, Australia, were used to...
Mar 4, 2024 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Andean Flamingos are wetland birds that move between high-altitude Andean and lowland wetlands. They are the rarest of all flamingo species, and most of their life cycle is not well known. Using Argos to assess their habitat use and movements in a context of...
Feb 19, 2024 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Walruses are large marine mammal living around the Arctic Ocean. The population from Franz Josef Land archipelago has scarcely been studied while being important component of their ecosystem. Argos helps in better understand their foraging and space use. Walruses are...
Feb 12, 2024 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
CLS group is, as usual, taking part in the world’s largest Ocean Technology & Science event this March. Join us at ExCel London between 12-14 March to discover our ocean technology innovations and solutions. Don’t miss out, book an appointment now with...
Feb 5, 2024 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Carnaby’s cockatoos are endangered parrots, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. They are beginning to feed on canola crops, which might be interesting for their survival – or not. Argos helps in trying to understands the importance and impact of this...
Jan 31, 2024 | Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
You already know that back in 2018, CLS created Kinéis with one goal: transform the Argos satellite system and deploy an unparalleled connectivity that is near real-time, universal, and with a low-data rate. Now, the launch window for the first of five launches has...
Jan 22, 2024 | Fish, Wildlife Monitoring
Blue sharks are threatened – as most shark species. However, basic information on the species in the Mediterranean are missing – population, habitat, migration… — while this sea is specific, and its blue shark populations’ behaviour can’t be...
Dec 19, 2023 | Fish, Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Japanese eels’ populations are declining, while their life cycle is not well-known. Part of the questions are similar to those asked for the European eels, but geography, the current and the species itself have their specificities. Argos helps in understanding the...
Dec 18, 2023 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Water is an essential resource to everyone on Earth. However, according to UNESCO, between 2-3 billion people worldwide experience water shortages. These shortages will only get worse over the coming decades as the increasing number of extreme and prolonged droughts...
Dec 8, 2023 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution
Drifting buoys such as those in the Global Drifter Program make significant contributions to weather forecasting, climate studies & marine studies. Additionally, they support scientific research on sea currents and sea surface temperature and, in some cases can be...
Nov 20, 2023 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Eurasian eagle-owls are the largest owl in the world, found in a large range of different environments. They usually perche on high lookout-points, electric poles included, which is a high risk for them. Argos enables to better understand their behaviour in scarce...
Nov 7, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Tracking leatherback turtles can help in protecting them at both a local scale, close to their nesting beach, and a basin-scale, when they migrate. The population from the Gulf of Guinea is currently the world’s largest, but fisheries, removal of adults from beaches...
Oct 17, 2023 | Birds, Fish, Land Animals, Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
An enhanced global system like Argos requires an enhanced global support team and, with its 30 different sites around the world, CLS is proud to have an excellent international userservices team. Debbie Stakem has been providing technical support to all North American...
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...
Aug 8, 2023 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Montagu’s harriers are migratory raptors wintering in Africa from Europe. However, once there and as many migrant birds, they do not stay at the same place during the whole winter, but move from site to site. Understanding this behaviour can give hints on the...
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...
Jul 7, 2023 | Goniometer, Hardwares, Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Unleash the Power of the 4th Argos Generation Experience a New Era of Excellence! Here we are: Gazelle and Ocean-Sat-3 are now fully operational and will be ready for you to use on the 10th of July! MORE Satellites, MORE Data: With 2 additional satellites, we...
Jun 30, 2023 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Eurasian teals are migratory ducks. A behavioral aspect still unknown for this species is the effect of environmental cues on triggering departure for migration and departure from stopover sites along the migratory route. Argos satellite telemetry, in conjunction with...
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 15, 2023 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
On 11 July 2022, in the grassy tundra northwest of Nome, Alaska, biologists Jesse Conklin and Dan Ruthrauff had found a brood of Bar-tailed Godwits. They fitted each of the three small chicks with a 0.75 g radio-transmitter, so that they could find the young birds...
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,...
Apr 25, 2023 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Water birds need specific environments, but may use new areas. Double-crested cormorants are now nesting in the South-East of USA, including on small reservoirs, not only in the Great Lake system. Their behaviors can be studied using Argos satellite telemetry, to...
Apr 13, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Green turtles are found along the West African upwelling. A network of Marine Protected Areas has been established during the past 25 years. Its efficiency towards protecting green turtles can be studied using Argos satellite telemetry. Main Photo: Green turtle with...
Mar 27, 2023 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Common cuckoos are found in Eurasia, from Europe to Korea. All over the continent, they migrate to Africa, while they parasite different birds’ nests. Tracking them using Argos helps understand the similarities and differences between all of them. Main Photo: A male...
Mar 13, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
European eels are a critically endangered species. They have a complex life-cycle with their spawning area thought to be in the Sargasso Sea. A study managed to track them to their breeding place for the first time using pop-up tags. Main Photo: European eel fitted...
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