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Tagged seals - a window to the ocean

Identifying important oceanographic events is a unique ability of tagged seals swimming through ecologically significant habitats off South Australia. 

Transmitted data, collected over 3.5 months, has provided valuable temperature depth profiles, identifying an upwelling off the coast of Kangaroo Island in early March.

View a sample animation of the temperature depth profiles off South Australia.

Temperature depth profiles off southern Australia