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Satellite tracking of southbound East Australian humpback whales 2008/09

Australian Antarctic Data Centre
GALES, NICK ; ANDREWS-GOFF, VIRGINIA ; DOUBLE, MIKE
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Tracking spring and summer migration of humpbacks from Eden NSW, Australia to Antarctica. Dataset can be found here: https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/argos/display_campaign.cfm?campaign_id=70 Satellite tags were deployed on adult humpback whales with a modified version of the Air Rocket Transmitter System (ARTS, Restech) and a purpose-designed projectile carrier at a pressure of 7.5 – 10 bar. A custom-designed, 80mm anchor section is attached to a stainless steel cylindrical housing containing a location-only transmitter (SPOT-5 by Wildlife Computers, Redmond, Washington, USA and Kiwisat 202 Cricket by Sirtrack, Havelock North, New Zealand). This superseded anchor design resulted in the anchor section disarticulating upon deployment in order to achieve improved tag retention times while minimising impact. The tags were sterilised with ethylene oxide prior to deployment and implanted up to 290mm into the skin, blubber, interfacial layers and outer muscle mass of the whale. Tags were programmed to transmit to the Argos satellite system at various duty cycles and repetition rates for a maximum of 720 transmissions per day. These transmissions are relayed to processing centres which calculate the transmitter’s location by measuring the Doppler Effect on transmission frequency.

Issued: 2018-04-30

Data time period: 2008-08-20 to 2009-04-28

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ANIMAL MOVEMENT | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System | BALEEN WHALES | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | CETACEANS | CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA | CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA | EARTH SCIENCE | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | HUMPBACK WHALE | MAMMALS | MIGRATION | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN | SATELLITE TAG | SATELLITES | biota | oceans |

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