I guess Marine Sciences *are* the strength of UCSC…

Posted by Maximum Fun on 20th February 2006

High-tech tags on marine animals yield valuable data for biologists and oceanographers

Researchers are enlisting seals, sea lions, tunas, and sharks to serve as ocean sensors, outfitting these top predators with electronic tags that gather detailed reports on oceanographic conditions and, in many cases, transmit the data via satellite. The data are proving useful to both biologists and oceanographers, yielding new information about the migrations and behavior of the animals and about the environments in which they live.

via BoingBoing

To be honest, this kind of reminds me of the time I convinced a Santa Cruz local browsing in the “Cars” section of Borders that the Pope was doing dolphin language research in order to convince dolphins to convert to Catholicism. He (the guy) agreed that a war between dolphins and whales might be imminent. Download the interview to find out if he felt nukes were approrpiate.