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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Bill Seegar. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: Unknown. Notes: Bird strikes; Satellite tracking. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: High winds. Timecode In: 00:15:50. Timecode out: 00:40:39. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Paul Howey. Timecode In: 00:41:43. Timecode out: 01:23:35. Notes: Microwave telemetry; Transmitters for birds. Habitat: Marine Shoreline, Beach. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Split track; Stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Falcons DAT # 5 BS = Bill Seegar PH = Paul Howey AC = Alex Chadwick continuing Bill Seegar's interview 00:31 AC -I have always thought that birds -if you look at birds it is hard to see that there is any pattern to their flight. But maybe you are developing data that says there maybe patterns to their flight and you can use that to help explore and examine this bird strike problem. 00:49 BS -I think a lot of bird flight is fairly predictable. Certainly it can be examined in that regard around lots of airports and lots of areas where birds present a problem. Birds are more a problem than people may realize even in the industry to some degree because it is difficult to collect good information on bird strike -on the rate of bird strike and how it actually is effecting the industry right now. This technology can very possibly effectively be used to predict where birds are going to be and assisting for casting (?) bird locations and activities around aircraft flight. 1:40 1:43 AC -So by having transmitters on geese because they flock together you can have one on a goose and you could know where the flock was at any time. BS -That is a concept -yes -to have sentinel animals in a flock. And the transmitter probably used in that context would provide information for a model to tell us how birds are moving around airports. the response time on those transmitters probably wouldn't be good enough to use it to actually forecast the presence of birds in any specific moment around an airport. But they would be able to provide us the kind of insight we need to predict very effectively how these animals are moving around the airport, where they are moving and what the circumstances are associated with their movements. Meteorological circumstances, perhaps behavioral circumstances where birds are moving btwn roosting and feeding areas and so on. And when birds begin to simply soar maybe recreationally or whatever they do when the air updrafts are favorable to take them aloft. 3:02 AC -Now how is it that you are able to collect that information than ornithologists have so far? 3:10 BS -Well, ornithologists are collected data like this in a variety of different areas. We are simply proposing the application of an integrated system to deal with and address this very issue for the bird strike problem. We would really like to see integrated the use of radar systems, satellite telemetry and advance data management -computer data management systems to try and develop a forecast function and mere real time capability to monitor birds around airports. And there are various elements in the research community right now that are doing these things ¬but not applying it specifically to this issue. 4:14 AC -But you are talking about sat. telemetry -maybe the transmitter is sending back to some other source BS -it is not entirely necessary under local circumstances that a sat. collect the information [AC -right]. We can have a system on the back of the bird that can interface with a sat. but it can also be collected conventionally. For example if birds were moving around a local area and that area was 20 or 30 miles we could easily put up a boom antenna that would collect information directly from the backs of the organisms from a receiving site in the area. Sat. telemetry becomes very usefully when animals move over fairly large... (Notes truncated)
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- 6 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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