Over 800,000 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. You can contact us by mail to info@meop.net if you have any question.
The MEOP data portal
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Deployment sites: Ross Sea, Antarctic Peninsula, Ano Nuevo California state park, Alaska, St Paul (Bering Sea)
Supporting institutions: National Oceanographic Partnership Program, Office of Polar Program, National Science Foundation, and NOAA Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program
Actors: Dan Costa (University of Santa Cruz), Barbara Block (Hopkin Marine Station, Stanford University), Jeremy Sterling, Josh London (National Marine Mammal Laboratory)
Dan Costa