Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST)
The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) project has designed an electronic tracking array intended to grow into a permanent coastal marine telemetry system: a discrete signal transmitted from an acoustic tag implanted in an individual organism registers on a receiver as an animal passes within range of it. Transmitters will be arrayed on the seabed of the continental shelf and slope, initially at the northeast Pacific. With a capacity to monitor up to 256,000 individual animals, this system can be expanded to other commercially important migratory species, with implications for international fisheries management and species conservation, providing key biological information about movements of individuals and populations as part of an integrated Ocean Observing System. By 2010, POST will implement an operational array along the entire western coast of North America. This technology will be implemented globally by the Ocean Tracking Network.
For current news and information, please visit the POST project website
POST Project Team
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Project Manager & Outreach Coordinator: Jonathan Thar, Vancouver Aquarium, Canada
Reports and Other Documents
Workshop Report: coastal working group results and offshore working group results
