Publications

Boehme L, & 22 co-authors, 2010, Biologging in the global ocean observing system, Proceedings of the "OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306. (PDF)

 
 
Boehme L, PL Lovell, M Biuw, F Roquet, J Nicholson, SE Thorpe, M Meredith and MA Fedak (2009) Animal-borne CTD-Satellite Relay Data Loggers for real-time oceanographic data collection. Ocean Science, 5, 685-695. (PDF)

 
 
Wunsch C, Heimbach P, Ponte RM, Fukumori I and the ECCO-GODAE Consortium Members (2009) The Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium
 
This article provides a synthesis and description of the ongoing efforts to estimate the global general ocean circulation. ECCO combines a general circulation model and various observations to produce a quantitative depiction of the time-evolving global ocean state. It does not currently use data from the MEOP deployments, but utilises data from the SEaOS project. The article contains a section discussing the potential for ocean data obtained from animals, particularly in data sparse regions such as the polar oceans. Here is a quote from the article: '...they are almost our only data sets from under the Antarctic sea ice, and they perhaps represent the future, in which ever more species are used to obtain a truly global observation system...' Please request the article from the journal's website.

 
 
Hindell MA & Kovacs KM (2008) Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans from Pole to Pole. Argos Forum # 6 (PDF)
 
This article in the newsletter published by Service Argos provides an overview of the approach used within the MEOP program for obtaining oceanographic data from seals

 
 
You can also go to a list of publications to date which use data from instruments deployed during SEaOS, MEOP or related programs.