Antarctic seals going where no scientist can

A SMALL army of elephant seals fitted with satellite transmitters are helping the worlds climate scientists get a better understanding of the oceans in one of the disciplines most important regions, the Antarctic.Researchers from Australia, France, Sweden and Britain published their Southern Indian...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, GD
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Australian 2014
Subjects:
Earth Sciences
Oceanography
Physical Oceanography
Antarctic
Indian
Antarc*
Elephant Seals
Online Access:http://ecite.utas.edu.au/94958
id ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:94958
record_format openpolar
spelling ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:94958 2023-05-15T13:37:24+02:00 Antarctic seals going where no scientist can Williams, GD 2014 application/pdf http://ecite.utas.edu.au/94958 en eng The Australian http://ecite.utas.edu.au/94958/1/Williams_2014_antarctic_seals_go.pdf Williams, GD, Antarctic seals going where no scientist can, The Australian - Rick Morton, The Australian, Australia, Online, 4 SEPTEMBER 2014, p. 1. (2014) [Newspaper Article] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/94958 Earth Sciences Oceanography Physical Oceanography Newspaper Article NonPeerReviewed 2014 ftunivtasecite 2019-12-13T21:57:32Z A SMALL army of elephant seals fitted with satellite transmitters are helping the worlds climate scientists get a better understanding of the oceans in one of the disciplines most important regions, the Antarctic.Researchers from Australia, France, Sweden and Britain published their Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic profiles temperature and salinity data collected by 207 instrumented elephant seals in the journal Scientific Data, affiliated with Nature, this week.Scientists have tagged the seals with transmitters since 2004 to learn more about how the environment affected their foraging and reproductive behaviours but realised quickly the animals were, by sheer virtue of their ability to roam where man-made objects cannot, collecting extraordinarily valuable data. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Elephant Seals eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Antarctic Indian
institution Open Polar
collection eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania)
op_collection_id ftunivtasecite
language English
topic Earth Sciences
Oceanography
Physical Oceanography
spellingShingle Earth Sciences
Oceanography
Physical Oceanography
Williams, GD
Antarctic seals going where no scientist can
topic_facet Earth Sciences
Oceanography
Physical Oceanography
description A SMALL army of elephant seals fitted with satellite transmitters are helping the worlds climate scientists get a better understanding of the oceans in one of the disciplines most important regions, the Antarctic.Researchers from Australia, France, Sweden and Britain published their Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic profiles temperature and salinity data collected by 207 instrumented elephant seals in the journal Scientific Data, affiliated with Nature, this week.Scientists have tagged the seals with transmitters since 2004 to learn more about how the environment affected their foraging and reproductive behaviours but realised quickly the animals were, by sheer virtue of their ability to roam where man-made objects cannot, collecting extraordinarily valuable data.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Williams, GD
author_facet Williams, GD
author_sort Williams, GD
title Antarctic seals going where no scientist can
title_short Antarctic seals going where no scientist can
title_full Antarctic seals going where no scientist can
title_fullStr Antarctic seals going where no scientist can
title_full_unstemmed Antarctic seals going where no scientist can
title_sort antarctic seals going where no scientist can
publisher The Australian
publishDate 2014
url http://ecite.utas.edu.au/94958
geographic Antarctic
Indian
geographic_facet Antarctic
Indian
genre Antarc*
Antarctic
Elephant Seals
genre_facet Antarc*
Antarctic
Elephant Seals
op_relation http://ecite.utas.edu.au/94958/1/Williams_2014_antarctic_seals_go.pdf
Williams, GD, Antarctic seals going where no scientist can, The Australian - Rick Morton, The Australian, Australia, Online, 4 SEPTEMBER 2014, p. 1. (2014) [Newspaper Article]
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/94958
_version_ 1766091360792739840

Similar Items