Accession Number:

AD1013960

Title:

Animal Telemetry Network Data Assembly Center: Phase 1

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Stanford University Pacific Grove United States

Personal Author(s):

• Block,Barbara
• Kochevar,Randy

Report Date:

2015-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

The capacity to track aquatic animals with biologging techniques enables a new scientific capacity for studying of animal migrations in the marine environment. In the past two decades, rapid advances in the small transmitters, receivers, and data storage tags that are attached to animals have made it possible to collect high-quality biological and oceanographic observations on timescales varying from days to years as the animals move through aquatic habitats. Biologging science, provides information that is used to support the management of marine fisheries and endangered and protected species, to assess the potential effects of anthropogenic disturbances, and to improve ocean modeling and forecasting. The U.S. is a global leader in animal telemetry, with tremendous telemetry infrastructure and considerable technical expertise in telemetry operations. However to date, centralization of the biologging data stream has not occurred.

Descriptors:

• aquatic animals
• ANIMAL MIGRATION
• marine biology
• ecology
• habitats
• ocean environments
• ocean models
• TELEMETER SYSTEMS
• tracking

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE