Do you wonder what all the different categories of data are? Wildlife Computers created a spreadsheet with every file description. This document spells out the different categories of data reported when you download your data from the Wildlife Computers Data Portal. Check out this document...
A second Wildlife Computers MiniPAT was found earlier in October after popping off a striped bass named Freedom. Tag #2 is Found! ...
Robots are being used to help validate hurricane forecasting models. NOAA is looking at water temperature and salinity to help provide clues to how strong a hurricane can become. Improving forecasting of these deadly storms is vital and the data collected will help scientists understand...
Check out some new research that discusses where a tag is placed on an animal impacts its performance. Researchers studied Wildlife Computers LIMPET tags in two different positions on a killer whale. Implications of tag positioning and performance on the analysis of cetacean movement...
Wildlife Computers SPOT tags were used recently for direct measurement of swimming and diving kinematics of the giant Atlantic bluefin tuna. The study showed that high-resolution biologging tags coupled with video revealed that these tunas showed a “considerable repertoire of swimming patterns” that seem to...
The white shark is a complex apex predator. Scientists recently published research on quantifying movements and understanding juvenile white shark distribution. As I read through the paper, it seemed to me that juvenile white sharks were a lot like teenagers who dwell in the basement...
Researchers from the University of Washington are using Wildlife Computers tags on swordfish to understand where they are feeding and to gain insight into “deep-sea ecosystems.” Camrin Braun and Peter Gaube headed up this project. The paper, published in June, analyzed 16 swordfish tagged off...
This article in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences outlines the use of Wildlife Computers MiniPAT tags to show predation on large immature Chinook salmon. The tags measured depth, temperature, and light. This data provided insight into the “natural mortality of this species...
The Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean is home to the world’s largest marine protected area and some pretty cool green turtles. In 2012, Graeme Hays and his team of intrepid biologists conducted one of the first satellite tracking studies on the green turtle in...
A Wildlife Computers MiniPAT tag was used to study the Mediterranean spearfish, one of the least studied billfish. Researchers documented its movements for 29 days. This study is the first that will begin to understand this species and lead to new attachment methods. Movement and thermal...