Subject: Data seal Location "Bran"
mike williamson (williams@www1.wheelock.edu)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:57:54 -0400 (EDT)
"Mother, Mother Ocean, I have heard your call,
Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall"
Jimmy Buffett
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:04:55 -0400
From: Greg Early <gearly@neaq.org>
To: fwenzel@whale.wheelock.edu, williams@whale.wheelock.edu
Subject: location data seal "Bran"
Mike et all,
Here is the first data from the young gray seal "Bran" released by the
Irish Seal Sanctuary on Sunday (6/27/99).
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Gray seal..."Bran"=85Irish Seal Sanctuary...Male... Released Bull
Island...6/27/99...11:30 GMT...PTT#01656.. Lat: 000000 Lon: -0000000
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01656 Date : 27.06.99 11:19:56 LC : B IQ : 00 Lat1 : 56.916N Lon1 :
25.484W =20
01656 Date : 27.06.99 15:21:30 LC : 0 IQ : 40 Lat1 : 53.388N Lon1 :
5.961W =20
01656 Date : 27.06.99 15:34:05 LC : 1 IQ : 66 Lat1 : 53.354N Lon1 :
6.142W =20
01656 Date : 27.06.99 16:43:00 LC : A IQ : 06 Lat1 : 53.397N Lon1 :
6.102W =20
01656 Date : 27.06.99 17:02:49 LC : B IQ : 00 Lat1 : 53.499N Lon1 :
6.239W =20
01656 Date : 27.06.99 17:14:38 LC : 0 IQ : 56 Lat1 : 53.331N Lon1 :
6.145W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 05:18:06 LC : B IQ : 00 Lat1 : 52.730N Lon1 :
6.145W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 06:57:48 LC : B IQ : 00 Lat1 : 52.989N Lon1 :
6.186W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 07:03:10 LC : 1 IQ : 58 Lat1 : 53.124N Lon1 :
6.076W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 08:12:40 LC : 0 IQ : 58 Lat1 : 53.110N Lon1 :
6.019W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 08:39:25 LC : 0 IQ : 48 Lat1 : 53.114N Lon1 :
6.030W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 09:19:02 LC : B IQ : 00 Lat1 : 53.083N Lon1 :
6.091W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 09:51:04 LC : 3 IQ : 68 Lat1 : 53.090N Lon1 :
5.992W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 10:18:16 LC : B IQ : 00 Lat1 : 53.055N Lon1 :
5.967W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 10:58:49 LC : 0 IQ : 58 Lat1 : 53.025N Lon1 :
5.889W =20
01656 Date : 28.06.99 12:44:50 LC : B IQ : 00 Lat1 : 53.038N Lon1 :
6.132W =20
01656 Date : 29.06.99 06:46:27 LC : A IQ : 00 Lat1 : 52.717N Lon1 :
6.143W =20
So far, this is very good for the first days of a track. Generally we get
fewer location"hits" in the first few days after release. One location
here is even a "location code #3". This is the highest degree of accuracy
that Argos (the satellite) calculates for a location. This means that
location is accurate to within 150 meters of the reported location. We
have programmed this tag to (hopefully) give us data daily for the next six
to nine months. Keep your fingers crossed...
ge
Greg Early
Edgerton Research Laboratory=09=09=09=09
New England Aquarium
Central Wharf
Boston, Mass 02110
617-973-5246 (phone)
617-723-6207 (FAX)=09=09
gearly@neaq.org