Autonomous Biological Sensor Platforms

Late in 2010, the Journal of Geophysical Research printed a report under the title "Narwhals Document Continued Warming of Southern Baffin Bay."1 The research described by the report was heavily promoted by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which had partially funded...

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Main Author: Benson, Etienne S
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: ScholarlyCommons 2011
Subjects:
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Environmental Sciences
History of Science
Technology
and Medicine
Sociology
Arctic
Baffin Bay
Baffin
Climate change
narwhal*
Online Access:https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers/32
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=hss_papers
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Summary:Late in 2010, the Journal of Geophysical Research printed a report under the title "Narwhals Document Continued Warming of Southern Baffin Bay."1 The research described by the report was heavily promoted by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which had partially funded it, and the story was picked up by a number of newspapers and blogs, one of which praised the narwhals as "excellent field techs."2 Who were these narwhals? How had they gotten into the business of not merely responding to or communicating among themselves about Arctic climate change but actually documenting it?

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