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.

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Fabien Roquet

Direction sign at Port-aux-Francais

The hard life of a seal

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The “Harbour” of Port-aux-Francais, the French station on Kerguelen Islands

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Guess who’s the male

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The Marion Dufresne

Here I enclosed a few pictures from my trip on the Kerguelen Islands in 2006, where I spent 3 months manipulating elephant seals and fur seals as part of ecological studies led by Christophe Guinet. Together with Christophe and Guillaume Girard, I stayed a couple month at Pointe Suzanne, enjoying the unique wildlife and fresh sub-Antarctic breeze.