8 Down, 2 To Go!
Posted January 22nd, 2009 by DanielCosta
Daniel Costa at Isla Lobos, Uruguay-- We've been busy over the last few days. We've succeeded in deploying 8 tags out of the 10 we planned on! So we have only two more to go before we've accomplished our goal. We should be able to have all the tags out tonight and tomorrow morning. Given that it gets really warm here in the mid day, we get up at first light and work until mid morning when it gets too hot for us and the sea lions.
A female South American sea lion wearing our new GPS tags. Photo: Daniel Costa.
The tags will be left on for a month. In mid February, a new team will come back to recover the tags. Six of the tags are satellite linked and they will give us animal locations, the other tags must be recovered to obtain the data. These will provide locations to 20 m, while the satellite linked tags at best are good to half a kilometer.
Success! Here you can see two adult females with satellite tags and tdrs. Photo: Daniel Costa
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