Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]

Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating marine animals, as well as data from drifting buoys and satellites. Ocean Tracks also has tools that allow you to display and analyze these data to investigate current and important scientific questions about how these animals interact with the ocean environment. Students will use the data to find patterns in animal behaviors.