Sentences with phrase «satellite tags»

Golden Missy with satellite tag fitted, swimming in the pool at The Marine Mammal Center before her release.

In 2012, CI scientists repeatedly observed this peculiar situation, and in 2015 opportunistically deployed the world's first fin - mounted archival satellite tags on wild whale sharks prior to their release — resulting in a wealth of movement data which has since helped to inform the management and conservation of the species in Indonesia.

WhaleNet puts students in contact with scientists involved in a unique research project that monitors the actual movements of whales, seals, and other marine life using satellite tag technology.

Outfitted with satellite tags for the 14 - day race, which takes place between April 16 and 29, these intrepid leatherbacks are working a 100 - million - year - old tradition.

To learn about the everyday lives of these difficult creatures, Fischbach and his colleagues have been attaching satellite tags to walruses — a difficult operation in itself, requiring the biologists to land a helicopter downwind of the herd, then slowly wriggle forward on their bellies until they can fire a tag into an animal's thick skin.

But now they also deploy satellite tags that can track animals across the ocean over the course of months or even years.

So has the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or Stereo, a pair of satellites tagging along with Earth in its orbit around the sun — one just ahead of our planet, one just behind.

The research team used long - term satellite tagging data from large tiger sharks and adult female loggerhead sea turtles, common prey of tiger sharks, to examine their movement patterns and evaluate if turtles modify their behaviors to reduce their chances of a shark attack when turtle and shark home ranges overlapped.

We'll share the story of a very unique journey taken by one of our whale shark satellite tags deployed in St. Helena last year and discuss how some expeditions have the best intentions but always don't turn out the way you planned.

Over the course of the expedition, the team was able to successfully deploy seven additional fin - mounted satellite tags, each of which are expected to transmit valuable data on the shark's movements and diving behavior for up to two years.

Although SES females have been frequently satellite tagged in other populations of the South Georgia stock, this is the first time that a tracking - at - sea project on elephant seals was carried out in the Falklands.

In the oceanic whitetip study, Demian Chapman, of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, S.U.N.Y. and colleagues attached pop - up satellite tags to 11 oceanic whitetips off Cat Island in the Bahamas in May 2011.

Katherine Mansfield, a marine scientist and turtle biologist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and colleagues put 19 solar - powered satellite tags on young (less than a year old), lab - reared loggerhead sea turtles.

And Paig - Tran put satellite tags on a few of the rays to track their movements.

But a new study that tracked eight individuals off the coast of southern California via satellite tags, as in the photo above, shows they can do much more.

To begin to answer these questions, researchers from Conservation International and the Georgia Aquarium have placed satellite tags on whale sharks in various locations around the world, including Cenderawasih Bay.

«This study provides evidence that these oceanic stages of loggerhead sea turtles studied with satellite tags do not necessarily get passively transported with ocean currents and, further, provides compelling evidence that these turtles are able to resist such transport using some mechanism not yet fully understood.

I'm excited that the field team here from Georgia Aquarium has been very successful at satellite tagging the mantas.

We are also able to provide satellite tagging for turtles, which allows them to be tracked after their release.

By attaching temporary satellite tags to sea lion mothers, researchers were able to capture data on how long the mothers were away from their pups and where they were going to forage for fish.

The controversial satellite tagging of killer whales in Washington has ended for 2013.

This tool uses over a decade's worth of data from Argos satellite tags that track blue whales on the West Coast as well as satellite observations of ocean conditions to make its predictions.

The black - footed albatross is among the many marine species researchers have been able to track using satellite tags.

Researchers have attached satellite tags to mantas to track migration, observed and counted their numbers from the sky in aerial surveys, and photographed their distinct skin patterns all in an effort to understand more about this graceful giant.

During the 2009 - 2011 breeding season we deployed 24 satellite tags on female southern elephant seals, to track their movements at sea.

In 2005, for instance, Michael Scholl, then at the White Shark Trust, and his colleagues reported an astonishing finding: a satellite tag on a great white nicknamed Nicole showed that she had travelled from South Africa to Australia and back within nine months.

Scientists took advantage of the turtle's unlikely detour to outfit it with a satellite tag.

Orr recalls that an Inuit hunter once told him that narwhals get cold when holes are made through their backs to fit satellite tags.

At a cost of $ 1,700, the satellite tag we sought — and never found — was valuable, indeed.

«It would be great to have satellite tags on a few individuals to learn about finer scale movement patterns and to see with greater resolution who they interact with, where they spend their time, what they do in winter, and whether there are any fish - eating killer whales.»

From about 8 to 10:30 in the morning, we deployed that suction - cup tag and then eight satellite tags, and we really did more in that two and a half hours to increase our understanding of minke whales than in the previous 30 years of research in the Antarctic.

The satellite tags, which are equipped with GPS antennas, allow the team to keep tabs on the shark's temperature, depth and movement through the water.

The team of researchers tagged the sharks with both acoustic and satellite tags, and used photo identification and laser photogrammetry.

Can whales be satellite tagged and ships warned in time so they avoid them?

Increased numbers of white sharks off Cape Cod in recent years have provided Skomal and others with opportunities for satellite tagging, another way information is being gathered on shark movements.

Before being released, Talbot was fitted with a satellite tag, with help from the Georgia Aquarium, which allows the turtle's movements to be tracked.

By using satellite tags, aerial surveys and photo identification software, Georgia Aquarium and its partners have studied and tracked over 1,000 whale sharks known to visit this area to feed on plankton and fish eggs every summer.

Our veterinary team has received a few «pings» from her satellite tag and it appears that she's hanging around the Channel Islands area - perfectly normal for fur seals!

Each seal is fitted with a satellite tag before release so that we can continue to track their progress for several months.

Before being released, Dylan was fitted with a satellite tag, provided by Georgia Aquarium, so that the turtle's migration and behavior can be recorded and studied.

Aerial and boat surveys and satellite tagging are used to understand how and where the animals use the waters of northern Florida.

Before his release he was fitted with a satellite tag which will allow scientists from Oceans & Coasts to monitor his whereabouts for up to a year after his release.

Scientists have long used satellite tags to track blue whales along the West Coast, learning how the largest animals on the planet find enough small krill to feed on to support their enormous size.