California aquarium, agencies work to develop sea otter tracker
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NASA is aiding in the effort to humanely track sea otter populations.
NASA is partnering with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Northern California's Monterey Bay Aquarium on the project, and noted in a release that the tags have also gone through initial testing with sea otters at the aquarium.
While previous generations of otter trackers were bulky, expensive, depended on special batteries and only provided an approximate location, NASA said in a release that new technology – which is still being tested – delivers "accurate GPS-enabled otter locations more frequently, in a much smaller, low-cost, and minimally invasive solar-powered tag."
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