Sentence examples for whale tracking from inspiring English sources

To explore the acoustic scene experienced by a toothed whale tracking active prey, we deployed DTAG-3 tags (with the same recording settings as in experiment two) on porpoises involved in pursuit of small (∼15 cm), live trout in the pen complex of Fjord&Belt, where the animals have access to a natural sandy bottom at 3 4 m depth.

Initially aimed at "high value enterprise and government customers," EarthNow lists things like storm monitoring, illegal fishing vessels (or even pirates), forest fires, whale tracking, watching conflicts in real time and more.

In the new paper, a group led by Rob Shick, a postdoc at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, examined different data locations of two female right whales tracked by satellite in 2000 as they migrated along the eastern seaboard.

Separate whale tracks were defined for distantly spaced calls or calls separated by more than 2 hours.

Compiling the changing locations of series of incoming calls over time, the researchers mapped whale "tracks" or paths through the survey area.

Whale-watching excursions (tracking killer whales in particular) are popular with tourists visiting the islands.

Via the device of a dead whale carcass tracked as it falls from the water's surface to its floor, you also learn something enduring: a good sense of how the depths relate to the rest of the ocean.

And environmental and animal-rights groups have convinced the courts to block several research projects that use submarine sound, including a National Science Foundation sea-floor mapping expedition (ScienceNOW, 29 October 2002) and an experiment that was supposed to begin last month off California to test a whale-tracking sonar system.

As opposed to the familiar "thar she blows!" call associated with whale-tracking, the crew yells "POOP!" when a defecation event is observed, and rushes to scoop up the samples before the plume dissipates.

He also unveiled the declassification of scads of Cold War military sound recordings, which could be used for everything from tracking whale migration to improving weather forecasting.

War of the Whales chillingly tracks the U.S. Navy's culture of secrecy as it collides with environmental groups and grassroots' demand for transparency.