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IMOS Animal Tracking Facility

Locality: Mosman, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 9435 4600

Address: Building 19 Chowder Bay Road 2088 Mosman, NSW, Australia

Website: http://imos.org.au/animaltracking.html

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23.01.2022 Our friends at ROpenSci and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research have been working together to strengthen the Antarctic and Southern Ocean R/science c...ommunities. Check out the page here: https://ropensci.org/blog/2018/11/13/antarctic/, it features our Animal Tracking Facility data on elephant seals. See more

17.01.2022 We know Galapagos sharks are found in our Lord Howe Marine Park. But where do they go? Researchers from the The University of Western Australia and the Integrat...ed Marine Observing System Animal Tracking facility returned to the waters around Lord Howe Island earlier this year to continue a joint project with Parks Australia and NSW Department of Primary Industries investigating movement patterns of Galapagos sharks and their overlap with fishing activity. This work has been ongoing since January 2018, and has been tracking the movements of 30 tagged sharks around Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid. Preliminary results show that the sharks are present within the marine park waters all year round, and that while most sharks remain within a relatively small area, some sharks were found to move across larger areas, including crossing between the Lord Howe Island shelf and Balls Pyramid shelf waters. Learning more about the marine species that rely on our Australian Marine Parks is vitally important and helps inform our management of these amazing places. NSWDPI

17.01.2022 Submit your abstract for AMSA 2019 in Fremantle. The 'Marine research infrastructure for Australia' symposium highlights the impact of research & collaborations... enabled and supported by Australia’s marine research infrastructure #AMSA2019 #marinescience #conference #abstract #Fremantle #symposium #collaboration #marine #research See more

16.01.2022 Meet the new IMOS Director, Dr Michelle Heupel! Integrated Marine Observing System - IMOS

14.01.2022 We were pretty lucky to have a couple of inquisitive Humpback whales come and visit us while we were uploading detection data at Coffs Harbour last week!

14.01.2022 The latest news from the Southern Ocean. This summer our teams attached some very sophisticated instruments 75 southern elephant and Weddell seals. The deployme...nts were in collaboration with our French colleagues at Iles Kerguelen and Dumont d’Urville and our New Zealand colleagues at Scott Base. The instruments record conductivity, temperature and depth the elements to understand ocean physics especially ocean heat content. We need this information to understand and how it is changing in the high latitude oceans of the Antarctic and Arctic. This is because more than 90% of the Earth’s Energy Imbalance is stored in the oceans and they are the key to understanding global heat and carbon exchange. Indeed, the Southern Ocean is considered to be the dominant region of heat and CO2 exchange and so understanding ocean processes in the Southern Ocean are really important. But there are many observational gaps in the Southern Ocean and observations from animal-borne conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) instruments are filling this gap and increasingly these observations are central to understanding physical process such as ice formation dynamics, Antarctic Dense water formation and frontal system identification and dynamics. Complementing this new knowledge of the physical ocean processes the animal-borne sensors are also providing observations on animal behaviour in situ environmental structure and the consequences of differences in environmentally mediated behaviour at the population level. Here (the animation was put together by Xavier Hoenner), the seal tracks of our deployments from this season showing that the seals are collecting information, which is transmitted via satellite every six hours and made globally available, from across the southern Indian and Pacific oceans and the Ross Sea. See more

12.01.2022 Here are the latest news regarding our program using seals as oceanographers in the Southern Ocean.

12.01.2022 All the seal teams have returned from what can only be described as a sensational season. This year three teams were deployed to a sub-Antarctic and two Antarctic sites: Iles Kerguelen (Clive, Coline, Hassen, Julie & Manon), Dumont d’Urville (Mark & Xavier) and Scot Base (Kim, Malcolm, Michelle, Rob & Sara). Collectively 76 Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) instruments were attached to 51 elephant seals at Iles Kerguelen and 25 to Weddell seals, eight at Dumont d’Urville ...and 17 at Scott Base. The tracks of the seals so far are summarised in the animation (thanks Xavier). Already the seals have collected 11 173 (1297 from Weddell Seals & 10 076 form elephant seals) CTD profiles from across more than a quarter of the Southern Ocean. These profiles provide vitally important information on the state (because this is the 15th - yes that’s right the 15th consecutive year of sampling) of the the all important Southern ocean and operational oceanography, for example feeding into ocean forecasts. CONGRATULATIONS to all three teams on what was an exceptional field season you should all be very proud of a job very well done, a huge THANK-YOU to all the station and support staff at the bases who make all the logistics seem so simple and course there are the 76 seals to whom we all owe a great debt for helping us better understand the physics of the Southern Ocean which is the heartbeat of the globe. A special word of thanks to the French (IPEV, TAAF) and New Zealand Antarctic programs for making this all happen.

11.01.2022 Our Animal Tracking Facility features in 'Elephant Seals Diving for Science', by Argos system.

11.01.2022 Improved accuracy of our seal tracking location data The IMOS Animal Tagging team have created 2 new quality control packages to use with seal tagging data,... increasing the location accuracy of tagged Southern Elephant & Weddell Seals in the Southern Ocean & Antarctica https://bit.ly/3jUsfxZ See more

08.01.2022 The OASIIS Working Group is a community of scientific researchers working together to improve observations and our knowledge of the oceans beneath Antarctic sea... ice and ice shelves. Check out their fact sheet providing an overview of the SOOS - POGO Working Group on Observing and Understanding the Ocean Below the Antarctic Sea Ice and Ice Shelves (OASIIS)! https://zenodo.org/record/4011492#.X1A1XGczZTY

07.01.2022 A really nice summary of our most recent paper in Nature

06.01.2022 Some footage of some of the friendly critters we encountered on our latest service of the IMOS ATF Narooma line of receivers. All detection data has been uploaded into the National database and registered tag owners will have been notified of any detection data from their deployed tags.

05.01.2022 Announcing the State and Trends of Australia’s Ocean Report The report brings together 27 long-term time series to provide scientifically robust information o...n states and trends of pelagic ecosystem indicators. https://www.imosoceanreport.org.au/ http://bit.ly/STARNews #NCRISImpact

03.01.2022 Ecologists use life-history traits to predict which species have the highest probability of redistribution due to climate change. However, most studies don't co...nsider that that these range shifts occur in sequential stages (arrival, increase, and persistence), and that different traits are likely important in each stage. Analysing surveys of tropical fishes at the poleward edge of their distribution in Australia, this great study led by Cristián Monaco found that traits predisposing species to shift their range (large size, broad latitudinal range, long dispersal duration) did not drive the early stages of redistribution (arrival time and persistence). Instead, diet breadth was the main contributor to the early stages. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15221

03.01.2022 The SOOS Southern Ocean Indian Sector (SOIS) Regional Working Group workshop report is now citable! The report includes a description of drivers for the region ...and status of multidisciplinary observations including key observational gaps, regional priorities, and challenges for the SOIS. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4083240 Find out more about the working group and how to join via our website http://www.soos.aq/activities/rwg/sois

03.01.2022 A great piece by SOOS’s Oscar Schofield and Josh Kohut on the technology used to observe the Southern Ocean!

02.01.2022 As marine research comes to a halt in the past several months due to COVID-19, is this the rise of the robots? Autonomous systems, Ocean Gliders, Argo Floats & ...tagged seals have really hit their stride, continuing to keep their robotic eyes on ocean processes. https://go.nature.com/3eaaR5g

01.01.2022 Seals doing the work while the humans get the glory, well thats whats happening. Elle Seals are being used to help collect data. They are collecting data such a...s temperature and salinity of the Southern Ocean's Amundsen Seawhich surrounds the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers. This isn't the only place this is happening though, a friend of mine has done this currently doing research. Clive has been to Macquarie Island, Scott Base and Davis just to name a fue putting these trackers on and he will be heading South this year again and will posted what his seals are up to when i find out!! https://www.ecowatch.com/antarctic-seals-ice-sheet-25694076

01.01.2022 Going where no scientist has gone before Our Animal Tagging Sub-Facility fits seals in the Southern Ocean with little CTD crowns, collecting valuable oceanographic and behavioural information inaccessible to scientists from ships. http://bit.ly/IMOStagging #NCRIS

IMOS Animal Tracking Facility in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia | Educational research centre