Data set of pressure, temperature and light profile collected by one southern elephant seal equipped with Time-Depth-Recorders and Argos locations. : MEMO_TDR

• Main Authors: Guinet, Christophe, Vacquie-Garcia, Jade, Royer, François, Dragon, Anne Cécile, Viviant, Morgane, Bailleul, Fredéric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MEMO 2012
• Subjects: Light profile; Pressure profile; Temperature profile; Southern Elephant Seal; Argos locations; Southern Ocean; Kerguelen; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7491/memo.2; http://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/ecomm/Fr_ecomm/ecomm_memoECdw.html

The foraging ecology of Southern elephant seals in Kerguelen has been investigated since 2003 with annual deployments of CTD-SRLDs (Argos-linked conductivity–temperature–depth-Satellite Relayed Data Logger / Sea Mammal Research Unit –SMRU-, University of St Andrews Scotland). In 2009, newly developped devices (MK9 -Time Depth Recorders (Wildlife Computers, Washington, USA)) have been deployed and combined with CTD-Fluo-SRDLs . We thus recorded fine scale diving behaviors of SES thanks to high resolution measures (every 2 s) of pressure, temperature and light during their entire post-breeding foraging trip. The data here, correponds to a post-breeding foraging trip of one female southern elephant seal (results of MK9 TDR) associated with the Argos locations describing its trip in the Southern Ocean.