Homing in on Halifax - First Annual Ocean Tracking Network Conference

Newswise — Marine scientists from around the world will be homing in on Halifax, Nova Scotia 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 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 press conference will be held on Friday, June 6. Headquartered at Dalhousie, OTN is an international research effort spanning the globe to track marine animals and gather unknown information about our oceans. It has already captured world-wide attention for its far-reaching, groundbreaking research potential, and now OTN is one of the first international ocean observing projects to have equipment in the oceans collecting data. At this moment acoustic receivers are in the water listening for signals from tagged fish along the first 22 km of OTN's Halifax line, which will soon extend 170 km to the edge of the continental shelf. Date: Friday, June 6, 2008Time: 11:30 a.m.Location: Room 1009, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Ave., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia