Deployment Campaigns

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Deployment Campaigns


List of deployments of ARGOS, TDR or geolocation field activities.

CampaignInvestigator, and Purpose and Timespan Options
1988 - Emperor penguins at Auster Rookery, Mawson (winter)

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Graham Robertson

Purpose:- Diet and Feeding Ecology of Emperor Penguins

Span:-

Metadata ASAC_1252 - Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Projects Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Data types:- Time-Depth-Recorder. 		 
1990 - Elephant seals from Macquarie Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- John van den Hoff, Dave Slip

Purpose:-

Span:- From 10-Mar-1990 to 17-Feb-1991

Data types:- Argos PTT. Geo-Location. 		View 16 profiles  
1991/92 - Adelie penguins from Berchervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Knowles Kerry

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:- From 1-Oct-1991 to 28-Feb-1992

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 24 profiles  
1992 - Elephant seals from Heard Island (winter)

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Geoff Moore, Dave Slip, Harry Burton

Purpose:- Southern Elephant Seal Foraging in the Southern Ocean

Span:- From 24-Feb-1992 to 29-Jan-1993

Metadata ASAC_468 - Southern Elephant Seal Foraging in the Southern Ocean

Projects Southern Elephant Seal Foraging in the Southern Ocean

Data types:- Time-Depth-Recorder. Geo-Location. 		View 18 profiles  
1992 - Emperor penguins from Auster Rookery (winter)

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Roger Kirkwood ?

Purpose:-

Span:- From 25-May-1992 to 15-Jun-1992

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 3 profiles  
1992/93 - Adelie penguins from Berchervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Knowles Kerry

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP) The campaign also followed Adelie's in the following winter

Span:- From 1-Oct-1992 to 1-Jul-1993

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 24 profiles  
1992/93 Light mantled sooty albatrosses from Macquarie Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Graham Robertson and Henri Weimerskirch

Purpose:- Tracking light-mantled sooty albatrosses from Macquarie Island to the ice-edge.

Span:- From 10-Nov-1992 to 10-Dec-1992

Metadata ASAC_752 ***

Projects Albatross Studies in Relation to the Longline Fisheries Bycatch Problem

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 4 profiles  
1993 - Elephant seals from Macquarie Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- John van den Hoff

Purpose:-

Span:- From 8-Jan-1993 to 4-Dec-1995

Data types:- Geo-Location. 		View 29 profiles  
1993 - Emperor penguins at Auster Rookery, Mawson

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Roger Kirkwood

Purpose:- Foraging Ecology of Emperor Penguins

Span:- From 1-Jan-1993 to 1-Nov-1993

Projects Foraging Ecology of Emperor Penguins

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 5 profiles  
1993/94 - Adelie penguins from Berchervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Judy Clarke

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:- From 1-Oct-1993 to 1-Mar-1994

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 50 profiles  
1993/94 - Adelie penguins from Davis, Vestfold Hills

View campaign details 		Investigator:- ?

Purpose:- ?

Span:- From 1-Sep-1993 to 1-Mar-1994

Metadata Tracking_Mag - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Davis Station, Antarctica

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 1 profiles  
1994 - Emperor penguins at Auster - Winter

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Barbara Wienecke

Purpose:-

Span:- From 11-May-1994 to 20-Oct-1994

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 14 profiles  
1994 to 2000 - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals (APIS) Survey

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Colin Southwell

Purpose:- Capturing and tracking Crabeater seals and 2 Ross seals

Span:-

Metadata APIS - APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980's

Projects Antarctic pack-ice seals
Population variation in pack ice seals around the Antarctic continent (INCORPORATED IN PROJECT #1144 FROM 2000-01)

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 27 profiles  
1994/95 - Adelie penguins from Berchervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- ?

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:-

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 16 profiles  
1994/95 - Adelie penguins from Davis, Vestfold Hills

View campaign details 		Investigator:- ?

Purpose:- ?

Span:- From 1-Sep-1994 to 1-Mar-1995

Metadata Tracking_Mag - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Davis Station, Antarctica

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 2 profiles  
1995/96 - Adelie penguins from Berchervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- ?

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:- From 20-Dec-1995 to 30-Mar-1996

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 16 profiles  
1995/96 - Adelie penguins from Casey

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Ruth Lawless

Purpose:- Track penguins from Shirley Island in conjunction with the ship-based krill survey (1995/96 V4 BROKE voyage)

Span:- From 8-Dec-1995 to 30-Jan-1996

Metadata Tracking_SI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Casey Station Antarctica

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 21 profiles  
1995/96 - Adelie penguins from Petrel Island, Dumont D'Urville

View campaign details 		Investigator:-

Purpose:- Track penguins from Petrel Island in conjunction with the ship-based krill survey (1995/96 V4 BROKE voyage)

Span:- From 15-Dec-1995 to 20-Jan-1996

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 19 profiles  
1995/96 - Adelie penguins from Scullin Monolith, Mawson

View campaign details 		Investigator:- ?

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP) ?

Span:- From 1-Jan-1996 to 30-Mar-1996

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 9 profiles  
1995/96 - Adelie penguins from Ufs Island, Mawson

View campaign details 		Investigator:-

Purpose:-

Span:-

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 11 profiles  
1995/96 - Emperor fledglings, Taylor Glacier colony, Mawson

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Barbara Wienecke

Purpose:-

Span:- From 17-Dec-1995 to 30-May-1996

Metadata ASAC_880 ***

Projects Foraging ranges of emperor penguin fledglings

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 3 profiles  
1996 -1999 - Elephant seals from Macquarie Island (UniTas)

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Mark Hindell, University of Tasmania

Purpose:-

Span:-

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 14 profiles  
1996/97 - Adelie penguins from Admiralty Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Judy Clarke

Purpose:-

Span:- From 10-Sep-1996 to 20-Feb-1997

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 4 profiles  
1996/97 - Adelie penguins from Berchervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Judy Clarke ?

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:-

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 88 profiles  
1997/98 - Adelie penguins from Admiralty Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Judy Clarke?

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)?

Span:- From 1-Oct-1997 to 1-Mar-1998

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 8 profiles  
1997/98 - Adelie penguins from Bechervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:-

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP) Study during incubation and guard phases. Tracked 4 post-moult Adelies penguins through the 1998 winter

Span:- From 1-Feb-1997 to 1-Nov-1998

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 23 profiles  
1998/99 - Adelie penguins from Bechervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Colin Southwell

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:- From 23-Nov-1998 to 26-Dec-1998

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 25 profiles  
1998/99 - King penguins from Macquarie Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Barbara Wienecke

Purpose:-

Span:- From 19-Dec-1998 to 23-Jan-1999

Metadata ASAC_465 - Feeding Ecology of Penguins at Heard Island with Special Emphasis on King Penguins

Projects Feeding Ecology of Penguins at Heard Island with Special Emphasis on King Penguins

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 24 profiles  
1999 - Weddells seals in the Vestfold Hills ( winter )

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Sam Lake

Purpose:-

Span:- From 15-Jun-1999 to 30-Dec-1999

Metadata wed_sat_99 - Behaviour of Weddell seals during winter recorded by satellite tracking.

Projects Population monitoring and ecology of Weddell seals at the Vestfold Hills

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 3 profiles  
1999/2000 - Adelie penguins from Bechervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- ?

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:-

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 12 profiles  
1999/2000 to 2004/05 Elephant seals, Macquarie Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Mark Hindell, University of Tasmania

Purpose:-

Span:- From 1-Oct-1999 to 11-Oct-2005

Projects The effect of spatial and temporal variation in marine productivity on energy acquisition in southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina
Winter foraging success of Southern Ocean predators in relation to stochastic variation in sea-ice extent and winter water formation

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. Geo-Location. 		View 96 profiles  
2000/01 - Adelie penguins from Bechervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Judy Clarke ?

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:-

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 188 profiles  
2000/01 - Australian Fur Seals from Spit Bay, Heard Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Simon Goldsworthy and Brad Page

Purpose:- Distribution of foraging effort of Antarctic fur seals in relation to oceanographic features around Heard and Kerguelen Islands.

Span:- From 1-Dec-2000 to 1-Mar-2001

Metadata ASAC_1251 - Distribution of foraging effort of Antarctic fur seals in relation to oceanographic features around Heard and Kerguelen Islands

Projects Distribution of foraging effort of Antarctic fur seals in relation to oceanographic features around Heard and Kerguelen Islands

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 5 profiles
View 1 multi profiles  
2000/01 - Emperor Penguins from Auster or Taylor Rookery

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Barbara Wienecke

Purpose:- Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries.

Span:- From 1-Dec-2000 to 1-Mar-2001

Metadata ASAC_1252 - Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Projects Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 9 profiles  
2001/02 - Adelie penguins from Bechervaise Island

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Colin Southwell

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:-

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 44 profiles  
2002/03 - Adelie penguins from Bechervaise Island for KAOS project

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Colin Southwell

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP). Tracked Adelie penguins whilst Aurora Australis investigates the foraging zone. See MPEG Movie (3.6 Mb) of Adelies at Bechervaise Island, Mawson - 2002/03

Span:- From 1-Jan-2003 to 20-Feb-2003

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 18 profiles  
2003/04 - Adelie penguins from Bechervaise

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Colin Southwell

Purpose:- CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project (CEMP)

Span:-

Metadata Tracking_BI - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins Around Mawson Station, Antarctica

Projects Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 33 profiles
View 1 multi profiles  
2003/04 - Heard Island Predator - Prey (HIPPIES)

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Nick Gales

Purpose:- Flash-based Map of the deployments for the Heard Island 2003/04 scientific expedition.



Span:- From 16-Dec-2003 to 9-Jul-2006

Metadata HI_animaltracks_ARGOS - Animal Tracking at Heard Island 2003/2004 - ARGOS data
ASAC_2388 - Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) Marine Ecosystem
ASAC_2388_alb_foraging - Preferred foraging areas of Heard Island albatrosses during chick raising and implications for the management of incidental mortality in fisheries

Projects HIMI Marine Ecosystem

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder.

View 328 profiles
View 1 multi profiles  
2005/06 and 2006/07 - Weddell seals from Vestfold Hills

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Mark Hindell and Nick Gales

Purpose:- Winter foraging ranges of Weddell seals: a pilot study to assess their role in the winter sea-ice zone and their potential as ocean sampling platforms

Span:- From 14-Feb-2006 to 8-Oct-2006

Metadata ASAC_2695 - Winter foraging ranges of Weddell seals: a pilot study to assess their role in the winter sea-ice zone and their potential as ocean sampling platforms

Projects Winter foraging ranges of Weddell seals: a pilot study to assess their role in the winter sea-ice zone and their potential as ocean sampling platforms
Winter foraging success of Southern Ocean predators in relation to stochastic variation in sea-ice extent and winter water formation

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		 
2005/06 to 2007/08 - Weddell seals from Dumont D'Urville

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Mark Hindell

Purpose:-

Span:- From 5-Feb-2006 to 10-Feb-2008

Projects Winter foraging success of Southern Ocean predators in relation to stochastic variation in sea-ice extent and winter water formation

Data types:- Argos PTT. Time-Depth-Recorder. 		View 21 profiles  
2006/07 - Emperor penguin fledglings from Auster Rookery

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Barbara Wienecke

Purpose:- Ten emperor fledglings tracked from Auster

Span:- From 14-Dec-2006 to 28-Jun-2007

Metadata ASAC_1252 - Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Projects Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 10 profiles  
2007 - SIPEX buoys

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Petra Heil

Purpose:- sea-ice buoys deployed during 2007/08 V1 SIPEX project

Span:- From 11-Sep-2007 to 6-Mar-2008

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		 
2008/09 - Satellite tracking of southbound East Australian humpback whales

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Nick Gales

Purpose:- Tracking spring and summer migration of humpbacks from Eden NSW, Australia to Antarctica.

Span:- From 20-Oct-2008 to 28-Apr-2009

Projects Passive acoustic monitoring of antarctic marine mammals
Conservation and Management Science of Marine Mammals

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 16 profiles
View 1 multi profiles  
2009/10 - Antarctic Whale Expedition (AWE)

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Nick Gales

Purpose:- Track humpbacks, minke, blues, sei, fins from ice to Australia - Antarctic Whale Expedition (AWE)

Span:- From 1-Feb-2010

Projects Conservation and Management Science of Marine Mammals

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 22 profiles
View 1 multi profiles  
2010 - AATAMS of elephant seals from Macquarie Island (winter)

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Iain Field, Rob Harcourt and Mark Hindell

Purpose:- Tracking winter deployments into the seaice zone as part of the Australian Animal Tagging and Monitoring System (AATAMS). 15 CTD tags were deployed.

Span:- From 11-May-2010 to 5-Dec-2010

Projects Winter foraging success of Southern Ocean predators in relation to stochastic variation in sea-ice extent and winter water formation

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 15 profiles  
2010 - Australian east coast whales

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Nick Gales?

Purpose:- Tracking summer migration from Sunshine Coast, Queensland to southern waters

Span:- From 1-Oct-2010

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 8 profiles
View 1 multi profiles  
2010/11 - Emperors from Amanda Bay

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Barbara Wienecke

Purpose:- Tracking emperor penguins fledglings from Amanda Bay, East Antarctica

Span:- From 18-Dec-2010 to 20-May-2011

Metadata IMOS_11068 - Satellite tracking of Emperor penguin fledglings

Projects Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 12 profiles  
2011 - AATAMS of Elephant and Weddell seals from Vestfold Hills

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Iain Field, Andy Doube & Malcolm O'Toole

Purpose:- Tracking winter deployments as part of the Australian Animal Tagging and Monitoring System (AATAMS). Over the course of the winter Southern Elephant seals and Weddell seals will carry high-tech tags with multiple sensors to record their foraging behaviour and measure the water temperature and salinity.

Span:- From 25-Feb-2011

Projects Winter foraging success of Southern Ocean predators in relation to stochastic variation in sea-ice extent and winter water formation

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 40 profiles  
Emperor penguin fledglings - Davis and Mawson 2011/12

View campaign details 		Investigator:- Barbara Wienecke

Purpose:- To determine at-sea distribution of emperor penguin fledglings on their maiden voyage

Span:- From 11-Dec-2011

Metadata IMOS_11068 - Satellite tracking of Emperor penguin fledglings

Projects Foraging ecology of emperor penguins in summer and potential overlap with fisheries

Data types:- Argos PTT. 		View 30 profiles
View 1 multi profiles