The Pacific halibut is an interesting fish. These mammoths of the sea can reach up to 500 pounds and live on the bottom of the ocean floor. Recently published research on halibut used a specially designed Wildlife Computers sPAT pop-up tag to study bycatch survival. This...

I think we can all agree that the Argos Satellite System is amazing and has revolutionized the fields of Marine Ecology and Biologging. The Argos system allows us to receive location estimates and behavioral data from animals positioned all over the globe…even when they are...

Filling in the Gaps: Augmenting Argos Coverage with Motes Have you ever wanted less data? Of course not! The more data the better. A Wildlife Computers Mote is designed to improve data throughput from your study animal. Dr. Kenady Wilson shows you how Motes...

The story of Peggy Hughes is an interesting one. Peggy Hughes is the largest Mako shark ever tagged by the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation (CSSC) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The shark was tagged during an expedition last summer. Not much is known about...

Catching an animal and deploying a tag is just one part of all the work that goes into a successful research project. After the tag is on the animal, then the anxiety sets in as we head back to our offices and wait for the...

Catching an animal and deploying a tag is just one part of all the work that goes into a successful research project. After the tag is on the animal, then the anxiety sets in as we head back to our offices and wait for the...

We introduced our new bird tag—Rainier-S20—last fall after a lot of work, field trials, and preparation. One of our field trials just had it’s one-year-anniversary and the tag is still going strong....

In August, Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research published results from a recent study which focused on how Cuvier’s beaked whales reacted to military sonar. Researchers concentrated their efforts off the coast of Southern California—an area frequented by the US Navy. The whales were tagged with Wildlife Computers SPLASH10 LIMPET satellite tags....

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