Platform Transmitting Terminal (PTT) tracking of Emperor Penguins at Rothschild Island, Antarctica, 2015

This study took place from 12 November to 1 December 2015, at the emperor penguin colony at Rothschild Island (-69.5 S, -72.3 W) located on sea ice < 1 km from the eastern coastline of the island in Lazarev Bay. ARGOS telemetry devices were attached to adult emperor penguins en route to, or from, the colony. The last recorded positions were on 26 April 2016 when data collection was terminated; at this date six instruments were still transmitting. PTT devices were deployed as a joint operation between Philip Trathan (British Antarctic Survey), and Barbara Wienecke (Australian Antarctic Division). Catrin Thomas acted as the BAS Field General Assistant.



Funding:

This work was supported by the UKRI/ BAS ALI-Science project and to the Australian Antarctic Program. Philip Trathan was also supported by WWF (UK) under grant GB095701.

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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01798
Date (Publication)
2024-02-20
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01798
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

Trathan, P., Wienecke, B., & Thomas, C.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

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Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Birds

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice

BAS Free-text keywords

  • ARGOS telemetry

  • Emperor penguins

  • Rothschild Island

  • West Antarctic Peninsula

  • foraging

  • moult
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This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

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This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

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English
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  • Environment
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Begin date
2015-12-01
End date
2016-04-26
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

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    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

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    No
    Statement

    The ARGOS quality flag was used by the crawl algorithm.

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    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01798 XML
    Metadata language
    English
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    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2024-02-20
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

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    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01798

     
     

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