In late September the Geolocation Journeys team travelled to the north coast of Tasmania for a two day outreach program with year 3, 4 & 5 students from Devonport Primary School. IMAS PhD student Toby Travers and visiting Brazilian PhD student Elisa Seyboth talked to the students about their respective areas of marine predator research on Skuas and Humpback whales. Visual Artist Annalise Rees also joined the team to talk about her collaboration with the scientists and her art

Dr. Annalise Rees showing off Geolocation Journeys at the Depths and Surfaces Conference in Hobart which is supported by the Expert Group on Humanities and Social Sciences (Scientific Commitee on Antarctic Research). #Antarctica #InstituteforMarineandAntarcticStudies #UniversityofTasmania #education #art #scicomm #science #geolocators #SouthernOcean #ScientificCommitteeonAntarcticResearch

Geolocation Journeys supports marine conservation and scientific discovery by providing tracking devices (called geolocators) to projects that investigate the journeys of marine top predators. This year a collaboration between Prof. Mary-Anne Lea from the University of Tasmania and Prof. Nico de Bruyn from the University of Pretoria were supported with 25 new geolocators to follow the migrations of Antarctic Fur Seals on subantarctic Marion Island. This unique long-term study

Geolocators have helped reveal the foraging strategies of fur seals during the Antarctic winter. Our new paper published this week used a combination of geolocators and time-depth recorders to track the movements and dives of female seals from sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the Southern Indian Ocean. During their 8 month winter foraging trips these relatively small animals (females weigh 30-40 kg) face a choice: stay close to the island but expend more energy diving deeper an

Geolocation Journeys was successfully launched on September 9th to a full house on the Hobart waterfront at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. With visualisations of Elephant Seal diving data projected in the background, IMAS seal scientist, and Deputy Head of School, Dr. Mary-Anne Lea gave a warm welcome to all guests, before handing over to seabird ecologist, Jaimie Cleeland and artist, Annalise Rees, from the Tasmanian College of the Arts, to share their story