Sentences with phrase «monitoring migration patterns»

-- Journey North — Journey North involves thousands of students in monitoring migration patterns of butterflies and other species.

Journey North, an Internet project funded by the Annenberg / CPB Project, involves thousands of students in monitoring migration patterns of butterflies and other species, sharing the data they compile via the Internet.

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VEMCO fish tracking and monitoring equipment enables researchers to study the behaviour and migration patterns of thousands of marine and freshwater animals over months and years and across vast distances.

Five national wildlife refuges host of programs by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect and restore monarch butterfly habitat, monitor their transcontinental migration, and teach thousands of children about their unique migration patterns.

Peter Grier, «The Great Katrina Migration,» Christian Science Monitor, 12 September 2005; Louisiana Recovery Authority, Migration Patterns: Estimates of Parish Level Migrations Due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Baton Rouge, LA: August 2007), pp. 7 — 9.

Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.