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Should I stay or
should I go, Yeah!!
Time to migrate !!
M'Pala field station, site of hornbill tagging
Hornbill with Uni KN GPS logger tag
Hornbill with Uni KN GPS logger tag
Martin will participate in
a Max-Planck – China
Space Program conference
From the program:
Earth-observing satellites with high-resolution instruments will improve
our ability to understand and respond to climate change, and the biosphere
could be observed in much greater detail. New satellite spectrometers will
allow to monitor air quality on regional down to urban scales and to assess
the impact of volcanoes on aviation and atmospheric chemistry. The combination
of novel active and passive instruments will yield unprecedented
details on cloud and aerosol properties, which currently constitute the largest
source of uncertainties in our understanding and prediction of climate
change.
Revolutionary satellite techniques, like tagging animals with radio
receivers and then tracking them from radio telescopes mounted in space,
would generate powerful impact. Installing a global observation system
that provides a direct link to life on the planet envisions exploiting mass
animal behavior as a sensor, for example to predict catastrophes like earthquakes
or tsunamis.