Self: Diff for "Biopowered GPS insect tracking"

Biopowered GPS insect tracking

Dragonflies and monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles, from Wisconsin to Mexico. This project will explore biopower options for satellite and cell phone microdevices for long distance tracking of insects.

See: Levett, S & Walls, S. 2011. Tracking the elusive life of the Emperor Dragonfly Anax imperator Leach. Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 27: 59-68.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130807094601.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

http://www.flightofthebutterflies.com/epic-migrations/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028162959.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Commercial telemetry via satellite or mobile phone network!! http://www.sparkfun.com/news/415

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2006/11/

http://www.telemetrysolutions.com/track-wildlife/gps-for-small-birds.php

http://www.wildlifecomputers.com/splash.aspx

http://www.lotek.com/satellite.htm

http://www.microwavetelemetry.com/

http://www.msi.govt.nz/update-me/success-stories/research/bird-tracking-goes-high-tech/

http://www.biotrack.co.uk/

Dragonflies: Nature's drone, pretty and deadly:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/science/dragonflies-natures-deadly-drone-but-prettier.html?_r=0

Bees http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/projects/tracking-animal-migration/#/bee-on-pink-flowers_25905_600x450.jpg, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CFIQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2FInsect_Telemetry_KisslingEtAl_FINAL_AMENDED.pdf&ei=A5dUUtWcMMLW2AX2y4HICA&usg=AFQjCNHXeJtLWl54i_qBynugPGNJZhqLIw&bvm=bv.53760139,d.b2I&cad=rja

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279226

Insect telemetry circuit design http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CFkQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwserver.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu%2FgReprints%2F366.pdf&ei=d5hUUt-lB-Ll4AOM9oDIDw&usg=AFQjCNGVqH92fahQSHJD6DyAFhkYG_Edgw&bvm=bv.53537100,d.dmg&cad=rja

LOTEK dragonfly tracking http://www.lotek.com/radio-tracking-an-emperor-dragonfly.htm

How one might biopower such things:

Mechanical Energy Scavaging from Flying Insects: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/najafi/files/mechanicalenergy.pdf

http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/408481

Partners in the Sky:

1-gram tracking devices just got a push! http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/partners-sky-aviation-and-aerospace-industry-leaders-join-smithsonian-worldwide-conservatio

Reviews, literature

Global positioning system and associated technologies in animal behaviour and ecological research, Stanley M. Tomkiewicz1,Mark R. Fuller, John G. Kie and Kirk K. Bates4, http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/365/1550/2163.full

Theme Issue 'Challenges and opportunities of using GPS-based location data in animal ecology' compiled and edited by Francesca Cagnacci, Luigi Boitani, Roger A. Powell and Mark S. Boyce , http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/365/1550.toc

• Movement-Based Estimation and Visualization of Space Use in 3D for Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Jeff A. Tracey, James Sheppard, Jun Zhu, Fuwen Wei, Ronald R. Swaisgood, Robert N. Fisher , http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0101205

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• Duncan Carlsmith