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Tagged elephant seals are providing oceanographic data about the Southern Ocean never before possible. Photo: Dan Costa, University of California, Santa Cruz

In the dead of the Antarctic winter, elephant seals gather data as they roam beneath the impermeable ice cover of the Southern Ocean Armed with environmental sensors placed by Antarctic researchers, the seals provide not only biological information about their foraging behavior, but new data, never before possible, offering insight into the yearly rise-and-fall cycle of sea ice production in an area sensitive to climate change. Scientists use the data to refine computer models of Southern Ocean circulation.

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Tagging of Pacific Predators

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© Census of Marine Life 2009

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Project	TOPP
Theme *1	New Scientific Findings
Location	-116.015625, -73.378215
Altitude (m)	0.0
Submitted by	Frank Baker (fbaker@gso.uri.edu)
To be approved by	()
Date added	2009/07/15 18:13:17
Date updated	2010/06/09 14:41:29
Thumbnail updated	Y

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