Concept information
Preferred term
POST
Definition
- The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST, http://www.postcoml.org/) project aims to build an acoustic tracking array along the west coast of North America. The early applications focused on tracking the migration, life span, movement and behaviour of Pacific salmon. The project is expanding to encompass other species such as rockfish, sturgeon and small pelagics. The test array in the Salish Sea region, deployed in 2004-2005, demonstrates that a large-scale monitoring system could be established to answer long-asked questions about the lives of marine species. The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project plans to complete the permanent full-scale marine telemetry array along the North American Pacific coast, from Baja to the Bering Sea, by 2010. The array will have 2000 receivers and 30 listening lines, each up to 50 km long. Capable of listening to over 250,000 animals at once, it will permit a near-complete census of the movements and marine survival of animals ranging from small salmon smolts to large marine mammals. Funding was made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Census of Marine Life (click here for funding proposal), as well as the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. (en)
Broader concept
- P - R (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/3341bea0-8f81-4833-9701-41f2b7d1758d
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