Category: Animal Tracking
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COVID-19 restrictions help understand human impacts on marine life
New research shows how changes in marine activities during Covid-19 restrictions could affect shark and fish behaviour in Australian waters.
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A new web-interface for IMOS’s national acoustic telemetry network database
The Australian Ocean Data Network and IMOS Animal Tracking Facility are working to develop a new web-interface for the IMOS national acoustic telemetry network’s database.
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IMOS improves the accuracy of our seal tracking location data
The IMOS Animal Tagging Sub-Facility has developed a new quality control process to improve the accuracy of data transmitted by Seal Satellite Relay Data Loggers (SRDL)
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IMOS welcomes new Queensland Government funding to extend our observations in the region
New funding provided by the Research Infrastructure Co-Investment Fund (RICF) will help us increase our understanding of Queensland’s marine environment.
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Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems
A recent study published in Nature examined tracking data from 4,060 individuals of 17 species of marine predators, including IMOS Animal Tracking data, and suggests a way to use such data to predict key ecological regions in the Southern Ocean.
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Marine megafauna as an ocean-observing tool for the next decade
Highly migratory marine vertebrates were the focus of a workshop at the recent OceanObs19 attended by staff from the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility.