Icarus


			International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space ICARUS' mission is working towards establishing a remote sensing platform for scientists world-wide that can track small organisms globally, using radio transmitters a small as 0.3 grams enabling observations and experiments over large spatial scales. ICARUS is currently in the process of: 1. Designing the technical (satellite) solution 2. Currently: Soliciting scientific input (Word or PDF).

^projects//Recent Updates

^current//Soliciting input

ICARUS solicits input for a white paper on global small-animal tracking
download soliciation
Word or PDF document
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^{May 23-26, 2007}//Movebank workshop at Princeton

ICARUS collaborates with www.movebank.org on a NSF-funded tracking technology meeting.
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^{Apr 17, 2007}//ESA meeting

ICARUS representative Martin Wikelski participates in 'System of Systems' initiative workshop at the European Space Agency.
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^{Jan 1, 2007}// 'Going wild'

The 'Journal of Experimental Biology' publishes a commentary on the importance of ICARUS.

^{Aug 11, 2006}//Science mag

The Science magazine has a special issue on "Migration and Dispersal" - 'On the move'.
ICARUS is featured under "Tag team"

^{Aug 2, 2006}//Goddard Visit

Princeton engineering students present the HERMES satellite project at NASA Goddard.

^{July 26, 2006}//New Site

Launch of the new 'ICARUS' website. The old website http://www.princeton.edu/
%7Etracking/ICARUS_website/
index.html will be abandoned soon.

^photos//Newest Photo

Please provide your input: PDF or WORD and send to wikelski@princeton.edu

^papers//Recent Publications
		Frank Mycroft and Steven Savin: "Designing the communication link" (Thesis). May 2007 The Economist. Satellite tracking. No hiding place. 2007, March 8th. Print edition. Wikelski M, Kays RW, Kasdin J, Thorup K, Smith JA, Cochran WW, Swenson GW Jr. 2007. Going wild – what a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists. J Exp Bio 210, 181-186. Holland RA, Thorup K, Vonhof MJ, Cochran WW, Wikelski M. Bat orientation using Earth’s magnetic field. Nature 445, 702. Holland RA, Wikelski M, Wilcove DS. 2006. How and why do Insects migrate? Science 313, 794-796. Cochran WW and Wikelski M. 2005. Individual migratory tactics of New World Catharus thrushes: Current knowledge and future tracking options from space. In: Birds of Two Worlds: Ecology and Evolution of Migration (Ed. by R. Greenberg and P. Marra), pp. 274-289. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Bowlin MS, Cochran WW and Wikelski M. 2005. Biotelemetry of New World thrushes during migration: Physiology, energetics and orientation in the wild. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45, 295-304.