Do you work in the Eastern Tropical Pacific? Are you interested in studying the movement patterns of sharks or other coastal pelagic species?
We invite you to join the Migramar network.
Migramar offers you the possibility of connecting to a wide ranging array of ultrasonic receivers deployed throughout the region which can complement your own studies.
Specifically, this provides you with a mechanism to detect long range migrations at no extra cost to you besides the commitment to share detections of tagged animals from your own receivers with the owners of the tags.
The Biotelemetry Laboratory at the University of California, Davis, has a long standing track record of marine and freshwater studies on animal movements.
The research team, led by Prof. Pete Klimley, offers its support to new groups wishing to work in this field. The Biotelemetry team will work with you to design a tailor-made training program that best suits your needs – this might take place during field work, at your laboratory, or at the Biotelemetry installations in California.
We offer two general levels of training, each of which is comprised of a number of themes:
Level 1: Experimental Design and Field Studies
- Tag types, their uses, strengths and limitations
- Design and installation of receiver moorings and arrays
- Range testing
- Databases
- Capture, handling, tag application and surgeries
- How to track an aquatic organism
- Potential connectivity with other research
Level 2: Data Analysis and Reports
For this component we can work with the data you have acquired during your research, or we can base our training on key publications and example data. Each theme comprises some theory and a lot of practice!
- Ultrasonic tags: residency analysis, diel behavior, movement rates
- Continuous tracking: data preparation and filtering, depth preferences, home range analyses
- Satellite Tags: how to interpret positions and depths, relation with physical parameters
- Technical support for production of peer reviewed articles
- Application of results to management and conservation in the region
Contact:
Alex Hearn
arhearn@ucdavis.edu
James Ketchum
jtketchum@ucdavis.edu
Biotelemetry Laboratory
1331, Academic Surge
Dept. Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Tel: +1 530 752 5372
