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Hatch a Tag

by Megan McCall and George Feldman

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Intro to Albatross

BBC Video

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Questions and class discussion

  • What do you want to know about the albatross?
  • How can you collect that data?

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Tag Design Requirements

No harm to the albatross

Needs to attach to the animal

Needs to connect with the “radio receiver”

No more than 3% weight of the albatross

FOLLOW additional guidelines on student engineering sheets

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Student Group Presentations

INSERT

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REAL WORLD DATA - black-footed albatross*

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References

Global Fishing Watch Website: http://globalfishingwatch.org/

CARTO Map data ©2016 Google, INEGI Imagery ©2016 NASA, TerraMetrics, EEZs: marineregions.org, MPAs: mpatlas.org

Black-footed albatross information

Dr. Rachael Orben, PhD. (2018). Where do seabirds go? Tracking seabirds for conservation. MBARI EARTH. https://www.mbari.org/earth-2018-day-2/