Important Documents

November 2021: McMahon et al. 2021. Animal Borne Ocean Sensors – AniBOS – An Essential Component of the Global Ocean Observing System. Front. Mar. Sci., 05 November 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.751840

July 2021: AniBOS included in the 2021 Ocean Observing System Report Card www.ocean-ops.org/reportcard2021/

October 2020: AniBOS included in the 2020 Ocean Observing System Report Card www.ocean-ops.org/reportcard2020 

Papers Using AniBOS Data

December 2022: Dotto, T.S., Heywood, K.J., Hall, R.A. et al. 2022. Ocean variability beneath Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf driven by the Pine Island Bay Gyre strength. Nature Communications 13: 7840, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35499-5

November 2022: Holland, K., Meyer, C., Potemra, J., and Holland, M. 2022. Ocean depth-temperature profiles for operational oceanography from a shark-borne transmitter. Animal Biotelemetry 10:34, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-022-00306-x

November 2022: Portela, E., Rintoul, S.R., Herraiz-Borreguero, L., Roquet, F.,Bestly, S., van Wijk, E., Tamura, T., McMahon, C., Guinet, C., Harcourt, R., and Hindell, M.A. 2022. Controls on dense shelf water formation in four East Antarctic Polynyas. JGR Oceans 127:12, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018804

November 2022: Keates, T.R., Hazen, E.L, Holser, R.R., Fiechter, J., Bograd, S.J., Robinson, P.W., Gallo-Reynoso, J., and D.P. Costa. 2022. Foraging behavior of a mesopelagic predator, the northern elephant seal, in northeastern Pacific eddies. Deep-Sea Research I 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103866

July 2022: Holser, R.R., Keates, T.R., Costa, D.P. and Edwards, C.A. 2022. Extent and Magnitude of Subsurface Anomalies During the Northeast Pacific Blob as Measured by Animal-Borne Sensors. JGR Oceans 127:7, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018356

January 2022: Gwyther, D.E., Galton-Fenzi, B.K., and Naughten, K.A. 2022. The Whole Antarctic Ocean Model (WAOM v1.0): development and evaluation. Geoscientific Model Development 15, 617-647, 10.5194/gmd-15-617-2022

Media

June 2022: What Oceanographers Can Learn From Their Animal Colleagues, Nautilus Magazine

February 2022: IOC-UNESCO press release

A southern elephant seal carries a CTD tag. Photo by I. Field.