Jun 22, 2020 | Birds, Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
After more than thirty years of Argos satellite telemetry, the extensive datasets that have accumulated can be used in diverse, large-scale studies. Incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries threatens Southern Ocean seabirds such as albatrosses and petrels. Data...
Jun 8, 2020 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Basking sharks can travel several thousand kilometers in a few months, as was discovered by monitoring their movements with Argos satellite tracking tags. Two basking sharks, in particular, nicknamed Anna and Marie B made impressively long journeys between Brittany...
Jun 4, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Did you know that seals are able to learn the melody of the Star Wars theme? Or that scientific studies based on Argos tracking data have confirmed they are great migrators? The grey seal, long hunted for its fur, still holds lots of surprises. We met Cécile Vincent,...
May 29, 2020 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The ocean is the world’s first heat concentrator. Measuring the temperature of our oceans is one of the key indicators of global warming. EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), the European Space Weather Agency,...
May 25, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Satellite telemetry enables to identify preferred habitats of the Andean condor, depending on their functions. Conservation priority areas for this scavenger bird can thus be better determined. The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is emblematic of the region and an...
May 11, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Baleen whales are highly migratory, going from low latitude in Winter to high-latitude waters in Summer. Satellite telemetry such as Argos has improved the knowledge of their distribution and movements. Using SEAPODYM ecosystem model enables to complement the...
Apr 27, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
American woodcock are tracked using Argos satellite telemetry by the Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative. Those migratory birds, travel nocturnally along the Eastern and central part of North America. Their secretive behavior makes their migratory behavior...
Apr 22, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
On April 25th, 2020, we celebrate World Penguin Day. There are 18 species of penguins worldwide, living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. From the noble Emperor penguin to the smaller, Little penguins, these aquatic birds are extremely endearing and...
Apr 21, 2020 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Eels, threatened by pollution, virus and parasites, overfishing, habitat loss and climate change have seen their population drop in the past decades. Their life and behaviour are studied to better understand the causes of this decrease. Their migration – when...
Apr 15, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
CESTM coordinates the French Eastern Atlantic Marine Turtle Network and welcomes all marine turtles found stranded or in distress drifting or as accidental by-catch along the Channel & Atlantic coasts of France (from the Spanish border to the Belgian border). 220...
Apr 9, 2020 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
African elephants are under assault due primarily to the illicit ivory trade and, to a lesser extent, to habitat destruction and human incursions. Numbers are plummeting throughout most range states. Understanding elephant movement patterns, home ranges, land use...
Mar 30, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Albatrosses are iconic seabirds of the Southern Ocean. Argos satellite telemetry has greatly increased knowledge of the at-sea distribution and behaviour of adults, and contributed to initiatives aimed at reducing their bycatch in fisheries. However, much less is...
Mar 16, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Chinstrap penguins live around Antarctica. To understand better the precise reasons why their population is slowly declining, researchers from the Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division of NOAA fitted some of them from three different breeding grounds with Argos PTT,...
Mar 2, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Spoon-billed sandpiper are small shorebirds migrating long distances from Russia to the south of China, mostly along the coasts. Argos telemetry is helping to answer questions about those migrations as part of an international effort to save the species. The...
Feb 17, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
Bowhead whales are crossing iced regions in spring. They dive along their path and the environmental parameters are recorded and transmitted if they are equipped with Argos satellite telemetry tags. Two different tags have been tested and their records analyzed for...
Feb 4, 2020 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dorcas gazelles live North of Sahel, in Africa. In some countries they are vulnerable and reintroducing them requires assessing their ability of adaptation to a new environment. Argos transmitted activity data recorded by collars enable to better understand their...
Jan 22, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
Olive Ridley sea turtles live in the tropical oceans. They dive to feed, and, as all species of sea turtles, they are threatened these days. To help in understanding and protecting them, some are tracked using Argos satellite telemetry. However, the environmental data...
Jan 16, 2020 | Hardwares, Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
The first ARGOS satellite dedicated to environmental monitoring was launched in 1978 by NASA. Since then, this system has been at the service of the international scientific community and has enabled a better understanding of our Earth, its fauna, climate,...
Jan 6, 2020 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Silky sharks occupy the same habitat as some marketable tuna species, thus leading to high risks of bycatch by fisheries. A NOAA study using a combination of telemetry technologies, including Argos satellite telemetry, aims to identify potential patterns in silky...
Dec 18, 2019 | Hardwares, Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
On December 18, 2019, the French Space Agency, CNES, has launched the first Argos nanosatellite, marking the beginning of a revolution in the Argos system as we know it. This nanosat is the prototype mission for Kinéis, a constellation of 25 nanosatellites with Argos...
Dec 17, 2019 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The lesser kestrel is a small falcon migrating from Europe to Africa. A study using a large dataset of tracked birds made it possible assess the differences of migration paths and African arrival points depending on their breeding regions in Europe. This can used in...
Dec 13, 2019 | Hardwares, Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Have you ever wanted to design your own Argos satellite transmitter? Now it’s possible! CLS and the Arribada Initiative are pleased to announce a new open-source reference design by Icoteq, Ltd. Used with the ARTIC R2 chipset, a low power Argos 2/3/4 single...
Dec 6, 2019 | Argos Forum, News
Understanding the impact of narwhals in the ArcticMonitoring the reintroduction into the wild of California condorsGaining insight into interactions between sunfish and fisheriesChanging summer habits of Russian polar bearsStudying interactions between penguins and...
Dec 6, 2019 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Weddell seals are the most southerly breeding mammal species. They are found among other places in the Weddell Sea, but their behaviour and foraging strategies are not well-known, in an area itself largely unknown. Scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institut tracked...
Nov 29, 2019 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Deep-sea species are scarcely known. However, a team at the University of Windsor in Canada has devised a means of tracking porcupine crabs living at 900 m depth. Pop-up archival tags programmed to release at regular intervals emitted data, collected by Argos,...
Nov 19, 2019 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Crocodilians are tropical wetland ecosystems’ top predators, but they are rarely studied. Black caimans, which live between Central America and the northern part of South America, saw their population drop by 90 % in the 20th century. To have a better understanding of...
Oct 14, 2019 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Cuckoos’ most well-known characteristic is the laying of their eggs in another species’ nest taking advantage of the care provided by these foster parents (brood parasitism). But some cuckoo species, such as great spotted cuckoos, are also migratory. Advancements in...
Oct 3, 2019 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Ringed seals are living during winters in ice covered environment, both sea and lakes. One of the subspecies is living around Lake Saimaa in Southeastern Finland, where human activities are restricting their living areas and the population is endangered. The...
Oct 1, 2019 | Birds, Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
New Argos tracking study by the Norwegian Polar Institute and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) reveals unimagined distances traveled by a female Arctic fox, from Svalbard to a remote part of Canada. In the Southern hemisphere, an Oriental pratincole,...
Sep 17, 2019 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
For 15 years, Kelonia, the CEDTM and its partners (Ifremer, CNRS, Universities, TAAF, the French Biodiversity Agency-AFB,…) have equipped nearly 300 sea turtles with Argos tags to study their movements in the Indian Ocean – from the high seas to coastal...
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