Autonomous vehicles for remote sample collection in difficult conditions: Enabling remote sample collection by marine biologists

Bennett, Andrew; Preston, Victoria; Woo, Jay; Chandra, Shivali; Diggins, Devynn; Chapman, Riley; Wang, Zhecan; Rush, Matthew; Lye, Liani; Tieu, Mindy; Hughes, Silas; Kerr, Iain; Wee, Adela

doi:10.1109/tepra.2015.7219660

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“…For example, the miniaturization of tagging equipment has facilitated the expansion of sex-specific research on seabirds to include juveniles as well as adults (Fay et al 2015). The use of drones to collect blow "snot" from whales has drastically reduced the time and cost associated with the manual collection of tissue samples via biopsy crossbows (Atkinson et al 2021) while providing a better understanding of sex, health, pregnancy status, genomic structure, and microbiotic communities in individual whales (Bennett et al 2015;Keller and Willke 2019).…”

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Sex analysis in marine biological systems: insights and opportunities

Gissi

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Santoleri

et al. 2023

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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The ocean is facing unprecedented challenges due to the escalating impacts of climate change and other pressures threatening ecosystems and the many benefits they provide. Effective strategies for reversing the loss of biodiversity rely on knowledge of how marine organisms, populations, and communities respond to environmental change. A fundamental but often overlooked biological characteristic of organisms is sex, which is distinct from sociocultural gender. Here, we examined how sex influences marine organisms, populations, and communities, through a review of sex analysis applications in marine biological research. We found that sex broadly affects the morphology, physiology, behavior, and distribution of organisms and populations across taxa, with evidence of sex‐specific differences in survival to thermal stress, timing of biological mechanisms, and energetics. To facilitate further integration of sex into marine biological research, we synthesize current approaches, discuss methodological and logistical challenges, and lay out guidelines for future research.

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Sex analysis in marine biological systems: insights and opportunities

Gissi

Schiebinger

Santoleri

et al. 2023

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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“…Remote sampling methods have been used to measure reproductive hormone levels in blubber samples from delphinid species (e.g., Kellar et al, 2009;Trego et al, 2013), baleen whales (e.g., bowhead whales, Kellar et al, 2013;humpback whales, Vu et al, 2015) and deep diving cetaceans such as sperm whale (Sinclair et al, 2015). Sampling the blow from respiring animals has been increasing in the recent decade (e.g., Hogg et al, 2009;Dunstan et al, 2012;Hunt et al, 2013;Thompson et al, 2014;Bennett et al, 2015;Apprill et al, 2017;Pirotta et al, 2017;Geoghegan et al, 2018;Nelsons et al, 2019). Along with fecal sampling it provides a non-invasive technique for monitoring the health of pinnipeds (Harvey, 1989;Fossi et al, 1997;Trites and Joy, 2005;Deagle and Tollit, 2007), killer whales (Hanson et al, 2010;Ford et al, 2011;Ayres et al, 2012) and baleen whale species (reviewed in Hunt et al, 2013).…”

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Methods for Monitoring for the Population Consequences of Disturbance in Marine Mammals: A Review

2020

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Assessing the non-lethal effects of disturbance and their population-level consequences is a significant ecological and conservation challenge, because it requires extensive baseline knowledge of behavioral patterns, life-history and demography. However, for many marine mammal populations, this knowledge is currently lacking and it may take decades to fill the gaps. During this time, undetected population declines may occur. In this study we identify methods that can be used to monitor populations subject to disturbance and provide insights into the processes through which disturbance may affect them. To identify and address the knowledge gaps highlighted above, we reviewed the literature to identify suitable response variables and methods for monitoring these variables. We also used existing models of the population consequences of disturbance (PCoD) to identify demographic characteristics (e.g., the proportion of immature animals in the population, or the ratio of calves/pups to mature females) that may be strongly correlated with population status and therefore provide early warnings of future changes in abundance. These demographic characteristics can be monitored using established methods such as visual surveys combined with photogrammetry, and capture-recapture analysis. Individual health and physiological variables can also inform PCoD assessment and can be monitored using photogrammetry, remote tissue sampling, hands-on assessment and individual tracking. We then conducted a workshop to establish the relative utility and feasibility of all these approaches for different groups of marine mammal species. We describe how future marine mammal monitoring programs can be designed to inform population-level analysis.

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“…To build an anemometer data logger it only costs USD 150. So, for total, it only costs about USD 550, it is much cheaper than buying a USD 10 000 surveyor drone [6][7][8].…”

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Problems and Integrating Procedure of Quadcopter with Anemometer for Collect Wind Velocity Data

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Wind speed profiles are generally sought by using an anemometer. However, problems occur when taking wind speed data over large areas, such as mapping the potential of wind energy in someplace. Altitude and coordinate variations will vary and difficult to executed if using a conventional anemometer. In this modern era where drones, which are unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used, have the prospect of being used as a tool in retrieving data. A type of drone that has an economical price is a quadcopter type drone. Integrating this drone with an anemometer will then be able to retrieve wind speed data at the coordinates and elevation. The wind speed survey process will be more accurate and can be saved in terms of cost and time. Problems and procedures in integrating these two tools will be studied in this study because both of these tools have specific characteristics such as turbulence from propeller drones that can interfere with data accuracy and sensitivity problems to the sensor anemometer that requires special attention. The development of quadcopter, including construction, modifying, and tuning, will be main issues to discuss in this journal.

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Autonomous vehicles for remote sample collection in difficult conditions: Enabling remote sample collection by marine biologists

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Sex analysis in marine biological systems: insights and opportunities

Sex analysis in marine biological systems: insights and opportunities

Methods for Monitoring for the Population Consequences of Disturbance in Marine Mammals: A Review

Problems and Integrating Procedure of Quadcopter with Anemometer for Collect Wind Velocity Data

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