Over 600,000 vertical profiles of Temperature and Salinity have been collected since 2004 in the World Ocean by attaching tags on marine mammals, such as Southern elephant seals.
In this website, you will find information about the marine mammal tagging programs, and an access point to the publicly available databases.
Please let us know if you are using our data. Send us your contact information if you want to suscribe to the newsletter. And don’t hesitate to contact us (mail to info@meop.net) if you have any question !!
Deployment sites: Bering Strait, Labrador Sea
Supporting institutions: the International Governance and Atlantic Seal Research Program, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.
Actors: Andrew Trites (University of British Columbia), Garry Stenson and Fraser Davidson (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Newfoundland)
