Lotek News

Lotek helps Starkey Project to monitor deer and elk (April 2008)

Photos and articles about Lotek's partnership with Oregon's Starkey Project can be found at the Project's web site. From the intro: "When Starkey researchers wanted to design and build a new animal monitoring system, they went to one of the world's recognized leaders in the field, Lotek Wireless. Lotek's topnotch engineering team built and installed a state of the art telemetry system on time and within budget." View details at the Starkey Project web site.
 
The Starkey Project is a joint wildlife research project conducted by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the USDA Forest Service at the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range, 28 miles southwest of La Grande, Oregon. The project is designed to measure the population response of deer and elk to the intensively managed forests and rangelands of the future. Over 100 Lotek GPS collars have been deployed to date.

Lotek joins forces with Biotrack (March 2007)

On March 15, 2007 Lotek announced that it has acquired Biotrack Ltd., a complementary telemetry company based in Wareham, Dorset, U.K. This new partnership will offer telemetry researchers a broader array of products and services to assist in the monitoring of fish, wildlife and birds around the world. Biotrack's radio tags are used mainly on birds and small animals and can be found on over 1000 species spread across 106 countries. For more information, see the news release and visit the Biotrack web site.

Ocean Tracking Network receives CFI funding; Lotek is a partner (February 2007)

Dalhousie University's ambitious Ocean Tracking Network project has been given a significant boost by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, who announced their $35 million investment in OTN recently (see news release and news article). Lotek Wireless is proud to be named as one of the project's industry partners.

You can view a brief presentation on Lotek's role in the Ocean Tracking Network here. More information can be found on the OTN web site: view their impressive movie, "How OTN works", and download the OTN brochure (PDF).

Lotek project is one of eight in Newfoundland and Labrador to receive funding from Canadian Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF) (January 2007)

Lotek's work on the development of the Nano LAT, a miniaturized data storage tag for tracking marine animals and collecting oceanographic data, received a major boost in January 2007 when it was selected as one of eight research projects to receive financial support from the Government of Canada' Atlantic Innovation Fund. The fund, which encourages research and development in Atlantic Canada, includes $16.7 million specifically for projects based in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read the full news release here.

Lotek archival tags reveal sooty shearwater's "endless summer" (August 2006)

Using Lotek LTD 2400 archival tags, researchers have revealed for the first time the extraordinary migrations of the sooty shearwater seabird. Writing in the August 22, 2006 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Shaffer et al. report that "shearwaters fly across the entire Pacific Ocean in a figure-eight pattern while traveling 64,037 ± 9,779 km roundtrip, the longest animal migration ever recorded electronically". Read the full article here, and visit the TOPP (Tagging of Pacific Pelagics) web site to learn more about this exciting discovery. The TOPP site includes excellent animations and photographs illustrating the remarkable range of the sooty sharwaters' migrations.

Lotek & Queen's U. create new ecological observatory (Winter 2004)

A unique underwater observatory has been established near Kingston, Ontario thanks to a new partnership between Lotek Wireless Inc. and Queen's University. Read more about this exciting new development in a recent article (PDF) from the university's Queen's Gazette, or view the newsletter in its entirety (PDF).

Lotek wins 2003 Canada Export Award (November 24, 2003)

For the second year in a row, Lotek Wireless Inc. has been awarded the Canada Export Award by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIC). International Trade Minister Pierre S. Pettigrew presented the prestigious award to Lotek CEO Jim Lotimer at a November 2003 award dinner in Toronto.

   View the 2003 Awards profile video: (requires QuickTime)

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In addition to the above video, which was shown at the Export Awards ceremony, DFAIC also produced a shorter video about Lotek which was shown on all Air Canada flights during the month of December 2003:

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Lotek wins 2002 Canada Export Award (October 8, 2002)

Lotek Wireless Inc. has been awarded the 2002 Canada Export Award for Innovation and Technology Achievement by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIC). International Trade Minister Pierre S. Pettigrew presented the prestigious award to Lotek CEO Jim Lotimer at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters in Vancouver last night. The Hon. Kelvin Parsons, Minister of Industry, Trade and Rural Development for Newfoundland, was also on hand to congratulate Lotek at the awards ceremony.

       Full news release            Other Lotek awards

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A sampling of past headlines highlighting Lotek products and achievements:

"Keeping Tabs on Crabs" - An article in The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), June 12, 2000.

"How to tell when an elephant has been in your fridge" - The Globe & Mail, June 1, 2000.

"Even elephants go online: Kenyan conservationists use Canadian satellite-tracking collars to foil ivory poachers and learn how animals and people can get along" - The Toronto Star, July 25, 1998

"Hi-tech Turtles " - St. Croix Avis, May 10-11, 1998

"Newmarket Chamber honors local business achievers: Lotek's monitoring devices find success in overseas markets" - York Region Business, July, 1998

"Des tortues marines sous écoute" - Les Débrouillards, April, 1998

"Head of a Ping - Tracking critters a lucrative business" - The Evening Telegram, March 3, 1998

"Bison on the air" - Wolf Country Magazine, 1997

"Spy in the sky assists moose researchers" - Ontario Out of Doors, June, 1997

"New devices cast light on fish lifestyles: Plaice in North Sea, Channel rise to catch tides and then sink when water flow turns against them" - The Globe and Mail, September 4, 1997

"Tracking newest tool in moose management" - Chronicle-Journal/Times News, February 4, 1996

"They're not yet on the Internet - but 60 moose in Northern Ontario are sending all kinds of valuable data back to scientists from new computerized collars " - Outdoor Canada, September, 1995

"Canadian innovators collar caribou ..." - Report on Business Magazine, September, 1994

"Moose tracking goes high-tech with new system" - The Toronto Star, July 16, 1994

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