Summary
In the fall/winter of 2003/2004, Lotek Wireless and Queen's University began a partnership that resulted in the establishment of the Queen's Ecological Observatory. In one of the Observatory's first studies, 22 large mouth bass were tagged with temperature & pressure sensing acoustic tags, and monitored continuously with Lotek's advanced MAP 600 acoustic telemetry positioning system. Monitoring continued from fall 2003 through spring 2004, collecting up to 200,000 position records daily. The video shown above demonstrates how such a study can provide new insights into animal behaviour - in this example, demonstrating how the bass react to the temperature drop in the lake during the transition from fall to winter.

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