
Steve Balfour
@tag_sense
Engineer at @SMRU_Instrument @_SMRU_ @univofstandrews tweets about tag design and animal telemetry
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http://www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/Instrumentation/Overview/ 18-03-2019 09:57:21
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Energetic Consequences of Orca Predation on Seals (#ECOPredS) aims to investigate seal feeding killer whales in Scotland and impact on harbour seals especially ecopreds.wordpress.com Preliminary field work this summer in Orkney & Shetland with Emily Hague 🚢🐳🐬 On the Killer Whale Trail SMRU (now posting at Bluesky)


The last keynote speaker of #ARTscientific2019 is Dr. Chris McKnight (J. Chris McKnight) from the University of St. Andrews (University of St Andrews). Seize the opportunity to enjoy his fascinating new #fNIRS application at the Artinis #NIRS symposium: artinis.com/artscientific-…





Check out our work covered by New Scientist using a new application of Artinis Medical Systems noninvasive optical technology to study the brain and blubber of diving seals to learn more about how they live life holding their breath SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) @PHATSAbertay Intl Bio-Logging Soc SMRU Instrumentation

A map of our watches in the last few days, both with and without seals (guess the symbols!), plus Emily's On the Killer Whale Trail sightings (hint: black whale). To submit your own, visit ecopreds.wordpress.com #ECOPredS


Why have harbour seal numbers declined in the east and north coasts of Scotland but not on the west? SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) director Prof Ailsa Hall discusses killer predation as one potential contributing factor #harboursealdeclineproject #ECOPredS The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/orcas-…

Six (!) successful tag recoveries yesterday 🤯, after controlled sound exposures with Norwegian frigate Otto Sverdrup - a relief after some high seas and night-time tracking! #3S3BRS #ffino TNO Nieuws SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) University of Iceland Direction générale de l'armement 🇫🇷 Office of Naval Research (ONR)


#PhD opportunity investigating killer whale predation of seals in Scotland with @gordon_hastie, Peter Tyack, Ross Culloch, Karen Hall and I #ECOPredS: findaphd.com/phds/project/k… Based at SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) with funding through SUPER Doctoral Training Partnership @marinescotland @snh_science – please share widely!

Just departed Aberdeen to join Julia Sutherland in Shetland for #ECOPredS SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) fieldwork. Promising to be a choppy crossing, but have🤞for the next 3 weeks with plenty recent #orca sightings! Grateful to NorthLink NorthLink Ferries for sponsoring our 🛳️ travel

