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SUMMARY:Installing autonomous seal cameras in the Mediterranean Sea
DTSTART:20181120T190000
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DESCRIPTION:Julien Pfyffer\, Andy Guinand (http://octopusfoundation.org/)\
 nThe Mediterranean monk seal is\, according the marine biologists\, the ma
 rine mammal closest to extinction in the world. Still according to scienti
 sts\, there are about 500-1000 individuals left in the Mediterranean sea. 
 One of the problems biologists are facing is their difficulty to approach 
 and study these animals\, as the Med monk seals have adapted to an intense
  historical human hunt by staying as far as possible from humans\, and by 
 resting and giving birth in remote caves along the shore. In the past rece
 nt years\, several monk seals families have been observed in the Sporades 
 islands and in the Ionian islands in Greece.\n\nFollowing that difficult a
 nalytical situation\, the Octopus Foundation decided to help the marine bi
 ologists and the research in general of this animal by assembling with off
  the shelves components an autonomous surveillance system that would use t
 he solar energy\, Poe cameras\, a 3G-4G router\, a Raspberry Pi and a very
  simple Python based program to monitor continously and remotely a single 
 monk seal cave. The idea was to test for at least 6 months this monitoring
  system on two different caves\, with two different configurations to see 
 if a monitoring system that costs less than 2000 CHF could work. If this w
 orks\, then the idea is to deploy as many of these systems as possible in 
 the entire Mediterranean sea to have maybe\, in a couple of years\, a bett
 er assessment of the monk seal populations.
LOCATION:MED 3 2215 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=MED32215
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