Sep 8, 2015 | Fish, Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Basking sharks are prevalent in the North Atlantic waters, off the coast of Scotland. While it is rarer to spot a basking shark in the Irish Sea, sightings have been reported off the Isle of Man. This is why a new partnership between Sea Life...
Sep 2, 2015 | News
A glider deployed in the Coral Sea in May 2015 by the IMOS (Australia) developed technical problems, most likely due to a faulty memory card. The glider was recovered in September 2015, thanks the RXG-134. “ The gonio finder was quite helpful and was used for the...
Sep 2, 2015 | Goniometer, News, Wildlife Monitoring
“This equipment is very good news for researchers – now it is reasonable to expect that if PSATs pop up in an area that can be reached by boat, tags can be physically recovered. For my research, this means that I can make sense of the geomagnetic and...
Aug 31, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The Argo Program Argo is an international program aimed at seeding the global ocean with 3000 profiling floats which measure temperature and salinity from surface to 2000 meters depth. As these floats are autonomous and tend to drift with the currents while at the...
Jul 27, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Argos transmitters attached to a fishes in New Brunswick in 2014 were just recovered in Greenland and Ireland. The Argos tags are attached to selected salmon by the Atlantic Salmon Federation in an effort to try and discover the reasons for high mortality at sea....
Jul 15, 2015 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
As of May 2015, a one-of-the-kind web portal named MEOP (Mammal Exploring the Ocean from Pole to Pole) provides operational access to the full international database of validated ocean observations collected by marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, and turtles....
Jul 6, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders in the world, and home to 400 species of coral and 1.500 species of fish including the rare dugongs and snubfin dolphins. Prominent marine conservationists including Nan Hauser are calling for a better...
Jul 6, 2015 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The sooty falcon population is highly vulnerable The Sooty falcon Falco concolor is a medium-sized falcon that breeds on the islands of the Arabian Gulf, during the hottest months of the year from May to September. During its non-breeding periods, the Sooty falcon...
Jul 6, 2015 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Tiger sharks, an IUCN ‘near-threatened’ species, are widely believed to be a coastal species. But in an article published in Scientific Reports on June 9th, 2015, scientists James Lea and Brad Wetherbee, Ph.D., of Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research...
Jun 28, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
A tribute to history with a scientific purpose The French tall ship, Hermione, an exact replicate of the original Hermione, which ferried General Lafayette to the United States in 1780 to fight alongside the Americans during the Revolutionary War, arrived in Yorktown,...
Jun 18, 2015 | Birds, News, Pollution, Wildlife Monitoring
Dozens of brown pelicans were victim of oil pollution due to Refugio State Beach pipeline rupture off the Santa Barbara coast on May 19 th, 2015 The Oiled Wildlife Care Network oversaw/organized their clean- up and rehabilitation at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird...
Jun 15, 2015 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
Two recent articles published in the peer-reviewed journal, Science magazine, “Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet” (Kays et al.) and “Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world” (Hussey et al.) point to the new era of...
Jun 2, 2015 | Birds, Goniometer, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The sat-tags were deployed in Spain and Portugal since 2013 (60 in total) and birds were followed traveling from their wintering grounds in Africa and Iberia to their breeding grounds in Western Europe and back. The goniometer has been used in Germany and in The...
May 19, 2015 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Mary Lee has recently attracted a lot of attention on social media through her @MaryLeeShark Twitter account. This 3.500 pound white shark was tagged two years ago by Gregory Skomal, Senior fisheries biologist with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, with an Argos...
Apr 28, 2015 | Argos Forum, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Exploring the possibility of using Argo float data to validate bathymetric dataObserving the Southern Ocean and beyond with an extremely long-lived drifting buoyElephant seals as an innovative source of in-situ observations in the Southern OceanTransforming the IMOCA...
Apr 28, 2015 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Movebank help animal tracking researchers to manage, share, protect, analyze, and archive their data. Movebank is an international project used by research and conservation groups around the world. Movebank users retain full ownership of their data and can choose...
Apr 28, 2015 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The project is implemented for a period of 2 years by the MIA – Mediterranean Association of Producers Organisations – as part of development actions and support of French Mediterranean fisheries, with the support of the France Fishing industry (FFP), the...
Apr 12, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Date : April 14-16 Place : Southampton, UK Booth A12 CLS : One stop shopping for operational in-situ data collection by satellite Argos applications
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...
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...
Nov 4, 2014 | Argos Forum, Wildlife Monitoring
A tribute to the International Argos User’s Conference on Wildlife Applications, National Aquarium, Baltimore, USA, November 18-20, 2014 Diversity and ecology of species tracked by ArgosWildlife tracking conservation applicationsUsing Argos to understand protected...
Nov 3, 2014 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dr. Hauser recently received a spotlight at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WCFF) for the documentary she produced. She’s gotten extraordinary footage of whales doing everything from breaching her dinghy to playing with dolphins in the high seas — some of...
Nov 2, 2014 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
NOAA, CNES, the National Aquarium in Baltimore (USA), CLS America, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Discovery Channel have teamed up to organize a three-day conference from 18 to November 20, 2014, on the theme: “Evolution of...
Oct 30, 2014 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The 30th meeting of Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP), the International Coordination Group for the use of buoys to collect oceanographic and climatological data, was held from October 27 to 31 in China. DBCP is a joint body of the WMO (World Meteorological...
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