I'm Professor Mark Hindell, I'm a marine
biologist here at IMAS. I specialise in
marine mammals,seals, whales, sea birds
particularly in the southern ocean. One
of the big problems we have managing the
world's oceans is that this increasing
pressure on the oceans to provide
sustainable fisheries we also want to
balance that with making sure that the
marine biodiversity and ecosystems are
remain intact
you can only get that balance if you
have a really good scientific input so a
lot of the work we do involves telemetry
which is putting some kind of instrument
on the animal to measure some aspect of
its life so we can have instruments
which tell us about how fast they're
swimming and when they're chasing prey what the habitat's like, we can use
cameras to take pictures of where
they're going we can have instruments
that would tell us the temperature and
oceanographic properties of the water
one of the breakthroughs I think that we
had in recent years was when we were
able to miniaturise ocean senses so they
were small enough to put on a tag that
we could attach to an animal and so we
worked with oceanographers to develop
those tags that we could put on the
seals and the seals would go off into
the southern ocean and start collecting
really valuable oceanographic data.
All of those things together give us
a really cool picture on what was once
a really cryptic picture of what all these
animals do ten years ago we couldn't answer
these questions but now that we can
we're getting old it's really valuable
insights giving a scientific capacity
for some of these policy decisions that
need to be made
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