NOAA gave a media briefing on September 27th, announcing the exciting news of a launch date for a new Argos-4 instrument. This launch has been 10 years in the making. This Argos-4 instrument will be a hosted payload (HoPS) aboard the General Atomic’s GAzelle commercial...

On November 9, 2019, a sub-adult loggerhead was stranded on Long Island due to cold stunning, a phenomenon like hypothermia. In addition to being cold-stunned, the animal also was entangled in a monofilament fishing line and had evidence of some sort of vessel interaction. The animal...

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To determine battery health for tags programmed in Tag Agent, you must look deeper than the tag voltage. This only shows you tag voltage when there is no stress on the battery. The voltage you want to check is when the tag is transmitting as this...

Project Kingfish recently had its first successful Sydney satellite tag deployment. How does their program work? First, a kingfish is caught. Then the satellite tag is secured into the muscle of the kingfish, anchoring the dart between the pterygiophores (fin bones) much like an NSW...

The Marine Mammal Center often fits its patients with tracking devices before they are released, such as the satellite tag you see here on California sea lion Sundance. Along with insights gained during rehabilitation, tracking these patients post-release allows the center to understand how our...

In October 2018, satellite and acoustic telemetry tags were used to track the survival of six turtles during Hurricane Michael. Researchers used Wildlife Computers SPOT and SPLASH tags on three turtles, and the other three carried acoustic tags. The long-term effects of Hurricane Michael on...

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