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MERMOZ_ARRAY: Acoustic Telemetry Array in the Mozambique Channel
Citation
Bourjea, J. (2026) MERMOZ_ARRAY: Acoustic Telemetry Array in the Mozambique Channel. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8984

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

The objectives of this project, whose acoustic telemetry phase will take place on EUROPA Island, are to acquire data and contribute to the development of new tools and methodologies to better estimate the interactions of turtle populations with human activities and to study the influence of available environmental variables on the dispersion and behavior of juvenile individuals. Ultimately, this project could enable the scientific community and managers of French National Action Plans for sea turtles to propose innovative and relevant approaches to population monitoring based on this new knowledge and an automatic and sustainable data collection system for juvenile sea turtles, adapted to isolated environments and capable of being extended to other fragile species of high heritage value.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Physical > Underwater acoustics
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Acoustic arrays · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic pingers · Acoustic receivers · Acoustic telemetry · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Acoustic tracking systems · Hydrophones · Network Project · French part of the Mozambique Channel (Europa Island) · Pisces · Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) · Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766)

Geographical coverage
French part of the Mozambique Channel (Europa Island) [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 October 2026 - 30 September 2030

Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Target species
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) [WoRMS]

Parameter
Acoustic detections Methodology
Acoustic detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), moredata creatorprincipal investigator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more
Other relation:
MERMOZ: Marine Ecological connectivity and conseRvation in the MOZambique Channel  - MERMOZ Project - EUROPA Phase., more

Dataset status: Planned
Data type: Data
Data origin: Sensor platform
Metadatarecord created: 2026-01-12
Information last updated: 2026-01-12
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