Acquisition of Oceanographic Measurements from Baleen Whales

The long-term goals of this project are to use large baleen whales as oceanographic sampling platforms, and to understand how they use oceanographic features to navigate and find prey. The specific objective of this research is to develop and calibrate satellite transmitters for baleen whales that c...

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Main Authors: Teilmann, Jonas, Heide-Jorgensen, Mads P
Other Authors: AARHUS UNIV (DENMARK)
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Biology
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Unmanned Spacecraft
Radio Communications
*ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
*DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
*OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
*PLATFORMS
*SAMPLING
*SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
*WHALES
DEPTH
POSITION(LOCATION)
RADIO RELAY SYSTEMS
RADIO TRANSMITTERS
SALINITY
TEMPERATURE
*BALEEN WHALES
*SAMPLING PLATFORMS
SATELLITE TRANSMITTERS
SATELLITE-BASED CTD TAGS
SATELLITE RELAY DATA LOGGERS
FOREIGN REPORTS
Greenland
baleen whales
Iceland
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA598791
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA598791
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Summary:The long-term goals of this project are to use large baleen whales as oceanographic sampling platforms, and to understand how they use oceanographic features to navigate and find prey. The specific objective of this research is to develop and calibrate satellite transmitters for baleen whales that can collect and transmit data on location, depth, temperature, and salinity. The project is carried out in cooperation with Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen (Greenland Institute for Natural Resources) and Gisli Vikingsson (Marine Research Institute, Iceland). The study will address the objective through cooperation with the two main manufacturers of satellite transmitters for marine mammals (Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Wildlife Computers (WC), Seattle, USA). New types of CTD oceanographic tags will be developed for baleen whales.

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