Accelerating Electronic Tag Development for Tracking Free-Ranging Marine Animals at Sea

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Abstract:

The work is focused on improving and testing the use and application of existing electronic tags and developing new, more complex hardware and software. For currently available archival and satellite tags we are 1 testing performance and durability, 2 improving light based geolocation estimates using sea surface temperature, 3 determining whether light levels recorded by archival tags can be used to estimate chlorophyll alpha concentrations, 4 examining the use of stomach temperature tags to document feeding behavior, and 5 testing light based geolocation for use on birds. New tag technologies under development include a conductivity, temperature, depth CTD sensors for both archival and satellite tags and a GPS tag. Refine and develop electronic tagging technologies for Tagging of Pacific Pelagics TOPP, a pilot program of the Census of Marine Life CoML. The tags under development will enable the project to address more complex questions about marine predators and their environment and collect high quality environmental data for integration into oceanographic databases.

Author(s):
Block, Barbara ; Costa, Daniel
Author Organization(s):
STANFORD UNIV PACIFIC GROVE CA HOPKINS MARINE STATION
Supplementary Note:
A National Oceanographic Partnership Program Award.. The original document contains color images. DOI: 10.21236/ADA483267
Pagination:
0011

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Approved For Public Release
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Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Contract/Grant Number(s):
N00014-03-1-0325, N00014-02-1-1012
Monitor Series:
XD
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_4.4.1_Food Service; JCA_4.4_Logistics Services; JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_1.4_Force Support; JCA_4.1_Deployment and Distribution; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_8_Building Partnerships; JCA_1.3_Human Capital Management; JCA_1.4.2_Health Service Delivery; JCA_8.2_Shape
Communities of Interest:
Space
Descriptor(s):
*TRACKING, *MARINE BIOLOGY, CONDUCTIVITY, DEPTH, OCEANOGRAPHY, BIRDS, FEEDING, OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS, DETECTORS, TEMPERATURE, DATA ACQUISITION
Field(s)/Group(s):
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography, Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Biological Oceanography, Target Direction, Range and Position Finding
Keyword(s):
*ELECTRONIC TAGS, *GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TAGS, *TOPP(TAGGING OF PACIFIC PELAGICS), SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, CHLOROPHYLL, GEOLOCATION
Report Date:
2003 Jan 01
Creation Date:
2008 Jul 23