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 Care and...
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 “Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet” (Hussey et al.) point to the new era of animal...
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 data Observing the Southern Ocean and beyond with an extremely long-lived drifting buoy Elephant seals as an innovative source of in-situ observations in the Southern Ocean Transforming the...
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...
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” in an operation...
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 dive and...
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 Argos Wildlife tracking conservation applications Using 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...
Oct 28, 2014 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dr. Barbara Block is invited speaker to the International User Conference on Argos Wildlife Applications IUCAWA2014 that will be held from November 18 to 20 at the National Aquarium, Baltimore on the topic of diversity and ecology of species followed by Argos tags....
Oct 20, 2014 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
This is a brief documentation of the satellite tagging of humpback whales undergone by Nan Hauser and an international team of experts from August-September 2014 in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Data collected from this satellite tagging project is a start to ensuring the...
Sep 29, 2014 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
In early summer 2011, two black kites were fitted with satellite tags Argos to track their path in near real time. It is possible to follow Milou and Salam via an interactive map and the blog of Adrian Aebischer. Since last month, Milou returned to southern Mauritania...
Sep 8, 2014 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Qatar is home to a great diversity of marine animals. Each year, hundreds of whale sharks return to the Qatari waters near the Al Shaheen oil field, in the north of Qatar. To protect the whale sharks and help preserve this endangered species, a research project was...
Aug 26, 2014 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
100 argos satellite transmitters were deployed on adult green turtles and 19 loggerhead turtles for the DYMITILE project. 20 new Argos will be deployed in 2014 and 2015 on loggerhead turtles accidentally caught by fishermen in the Reunion. The project is called COCA...
Jun 19, 2014 | Argos Forum, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Studies of currents in the Sea of Okhotsk and adjoining areas Comparison of TMI and AMSR-E sea surface temperature with recent Argo near-surface temperature over the global oceans The global drifter program and the implementation of the Argos-3 technology Project:...
Mar 16, 2014 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, hosted every year by the International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS), is a unique event that draws participants from around the world, from across disciplines and cultures to a common interest and objective: the...
Feb 22, 2014 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
In February of 2014, we bought a goniometer from CLS in order to find that PTT and any other that could be lost in the future. We drove to Sierra de Filabres, to a location about two kilometers away from our last received position, an arid hilly area with a very...
Jan 31, 2014 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The glider was still diving but it was unable to transmit data and the GPS positions were increasingly unreliable. After 24 hours, the glider stopped sending data via Iridium altogether. Only the Argos positions were still being received, with a 30 minute delay via...
Dec 2, 2013 | Argos Forum, Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Understanding movements of avian scavengers on both sides of the Equator Tracking carnaby’s cockatoos in Western Australia Natal dispersal of eagle owls: a European scale project Studying marabou storks around the lake Victoria basin Spatio-temporal tracking of common...
Nov 14, 2013 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
As human activities in marine and aquatic environments continue to increase worldwide, the combined and cumulative effects of these activities are posing greater threats to marine mammals as individuals, populations, and species. The conference will highlight how...
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