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Inaugural Ocean Tracking Network Conference Headlines World Ocean Day

Halifax, Nova Scotia (ots/PRNewswire)

- First Results to be Announced
Marine scientists from around the world will be homing in on
Halifax next week when they converge on Dalhousie University for the
First Annual Ocean Tracking Network Conference June 4 to June 6. The
conference is the official launch of the Ocean Tracking Network and
appropriately coincides with World Ocean Day on June 6. The
conference will feature opening remarks by former Oceanographer of
the US Navy, Rear Admiral (retired) Richard West, and a trade show
beginning on Thursday, June 5. A media conference announcing progress
to date and any activity from the receivers will be held on Friday,
June 6. Media interviews for key researchers can be arranged via
phone or e-mail from June 4-6.
Headquartered at Dalhousie, the OTN is an international research
effort that spans the globe to track marine animals and gather new
information about our oceans and how they're changing. It has already
captured world-wide attention for its far-reaching, groundbreaking
research potential, and now the OTN is one of the first international
ocean observing projects to have equipment in the oceans collecting
data. At this moment acoustic receivers are listening for signals
from tagged fish along the first 22 km of the OTN's Halifax Line,
which will soon extend 170 km to the continental shelf.
The information gathered from these receivers will enhance the
ability for marine scientists to understand marine animal behaviour
and study and deal with the effects of climate change, a fitting
connection to this year's World Ocean Day theme, "helping our
climate/helping our ocean."
Date: Friday, June 6, 2008
    Time: 10:30 a.m. ET
    Location: Room 1009, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
    6100 University Ave., Dalhousie University
Media inquiries, contact:
Billy Comeau, Public Relations Officer, Dalhousie University,
+1-902-494-6880, email:  william.comeau@dal.ca

Contact:

Media inquiries, contact: Billy Comeau, Public Relations Officer,
Dalhousie University, +1-902-494-6880, email: william.comeau@dal.ca