Clive McMahon is the Scientific and Operations Manager for Australia’s Animal Tagging Facility in the Integrated Marine Observing System. He coordinates the deployment of sophisticated ocean observing equipment on seals around the Australian coast and in the Southern Ocean. He is the co-chair of the GOOS Animal Borne Sensors emerging network. These animal borne observations form the major part of Australia’s sustained contribution of ocean observations to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and are the foundation for AniBOS. Seal derived observations extend our observing capability into poorly sampled regions of national and international significance by: providing essential data integrating animal behaviour and ocean physics, describing Southern Ocean water masses and providing essential bathymetric observations along the Antarctic Coast. The in situ physical oceanography observations are central to informing the links between environmental state and population viability and are particularly exciting for Southern Ocean researchers like Clive.
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