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Students Develop Safer Tagging for Better Data
The Open Tag is non-invasive and will not require a skin puncture to adhere to an animal.
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Duke Conservation Technology, a group of students applying skills developed in the classroom to real world issues, are developing a open-source, open-hardware tag for marine animal research. The digital Open Tag aims to help researchers collect more data with fewer resources.
The high costs and low availability of current tags, and the high percent of lost devices, has resulted in less data collection in developing areas due to lack of funding for local researchers.
Sam Kelly, Henrik Cox, Carmen Hoyt, and Ashley Blawas explain the Open Tag in a video that was honored this month by the Pratt School of Engineering with the 2019 Richard Merritt Memorial Award for Student Science Journalism. The judges praised it for "weaving together graphic animation, still photography, drone and underwater footage, and original interviews," while explaining the complicated design process and engineering challenges in the project.
The video was made by Duke student Madeline Go, undergraduate major in biology.
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